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Unlocking health and care data for research and innovation

06 November 2025

Achieving the NHS’ vision for a more personalised, preventative and sustainable health service depends on effective use of data and technology, writes Catherine Dampney, director of innovation and ...

MICROSOFT

Learning to drive AI

06 November 2025

We need a new generation of drivers to safely transform healthcare, writes Dr Umang Patel, NHS paediatrician at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and chief clinical information officer, Microsoft...

THE HEALTH INNOVATION NETWORK

Place-based innovation and its role in improving health

06 November 2025

If we are serious about improving the nation’s health, we must take innovation into the lives of people and communities. That means designing and delivering local change in places where people live...

NHS REFORM

Editor's comment - A credible plan?

By Lee Peart 06 November 2025

NHS leaders are stuck between a rock and hard place as they seek to meet challenging targets while simultaneously being asked to drastically cut costs.

SUPPLY CHAIN

Simple ways healthcare systems can reduce supply chain delays in patient care

04 November 2025

The healthcare supply chain is the lifeline that connects critical medical products to the patients who need them. For any healthcare system, particularly a large public service like the NHS, a smo...

WINTER PRESSURES

Editor's comment - Different this time?

By Lee Peart 27 October 2025

Leaders will be hoping that better planning will mean the NHS is better prepared to weather the winter months this time around, writes Lee Peart, editor at Healthcare Management

MERCER UK

Supporting a broader provision of employer-funded healthcare

27 October 2025

Tax incentives for workplace healthcare could reduce burden on NHS, writes Benoir Hudon, chief executive at professional services firm Mercer UK

NORTHERN IRELAND EXECUTIVE

Lessons from across the water

27 October 2025

The Northern Ireland healthcare ‘reset’ has acted as a shot in the arm for its service and stakeholders, writes Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation

DIGITAL

Left-shift views - Algorithmic thinking and decision making

27 October 2025

Our correspondent Melissa Harvard looks outside the box to provide a radical solution for healthcare

NHS CONFEDERATION

Something has to give

19 October 2025

The critical and sometimes punitive tone adopted by the secretary of state towards NHS managers and leaders may be understandable, but it needs now to change, writes Matthew Taylor is chief executi...