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Editor's comment - An unwelcome turn of events

By Lee Peart 01 September 2025

The launch of strike action by resident doctors in July presented a decidedly unwelcome turn of events for Wes Streeting.

THE HEALTH FOUNDATION

Bringing the 'dark side' to light?

01 September 2025

Lukasz Zielinski, national medical director’s clinical fellow and Ross Goldstone, research manager, The Health Foundation, consider two of the most stubborn NHS management myths and explain just ho...

INTEGRATED CARE

Why ICB challenges can bring opportunities

By Lee Peart 13 August 2025

Possibilities abound for councils to collaborate with ICBs as they undergo reform, writes Matthew Taylor.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

Editor's comment - Neighbourhood health is a win-win

By Lee Peart 21 July 2025

The Government is onto a winner with its central pledge of a neighbourhood health service in the 10-Year Health Plan.

Change with evaluation

21 July 2025

Why we must evaluate as we go to ensure change is effective and delivers value, writes Rose Taylor, executive director of health and care transformation, NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit

WORKFORCE

Creating a pipeline of talent

21 July 2025

Local NHS and college leaders have created a new way for young people to gain work experience in the health sector, writes Gary Wright, group deputy director of education and learning at University...

Left-shift views - AI and leadership

21 July 2025

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

Nurturing AI in the NHS

21 July 2025

If any health system has the scale, diversity and public ethos to become the Hogwarts of AI wizardry in healthcare, it’s the NHS, writes Dr Umang Patel, NHS paediatrician at Frimley Health NHS Foun...

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

The 'three Ps'

21 July 2025

Neighbourhood health has the potential to offer a qualitatively different and genuinely multi-agency service to people and communities.

LEGAL

Lost in the system

By Lee Peart 18 July 2025

The Government must streamline primary care or see neighbourhood health centres fail, writes Katie Collin, partner at specialist medical accountancy firm Ramsay Brown LLP.