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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

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...

WORKFORCE

Left-shift views - FOMO and public sector change

13 October 2025

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

APOGEE

Kicking the habit

13 October 2025

Helping the NHS overcome its decades-old paper habit, by Gary Day, director of public sector sales at Apogee

PREVENTION

Tax incentives for workplace healthcare could reduce burden on NHS

By Lee Peart 13 October 2025

Benoit Hudon, chief executive of Mercer UK, urges the Government to support broader provision of employer-funded healthcare.

GOVERNANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Why NHS leaders need formal governance training

By Lee Peart 08 October 2025

Alex Whitfield, chief executive of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, shares her experience on effective leadership.

LEAGUE TABLES

Editor's comment - A league of their own

By Lee Peart 29 September 2025

This month’s launch of league tables has been panned by healthcare leaders. ‘Divisive’, ‘naming and shaming’, ‘ineffective’, ‘done before’, ‘demoralising’ — you name it! The chorus of derision was...

NHS CONFEDERATION

Realists and visionaries

29 September 2025

Without transformation there is no viable future for the NHS as a universal service, writes Matthew Taylor, chief executive of NHS Confederation

THE HEALTH INNOVATION NETWORK

Progress, productivity and potential

29 September 2025

Health innovation is no longer on the margins of healthcare discussion, writes Richard Stubbs, chair at Health Innovation Network

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

Finding the sweet spot for neighbourhood health

29 September 2025

Taking a people-first, outcome-focused, data-driven approach to unlock the potential of integrated, community-based healthcare, writes Alison Westmacott, director of primary care, NHS South, Centra...