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ICBS

Editor's comment - Light at the end of the tunnel?

By Lee Peart 26 January 2026

The last 12 months have been particularly tough for NHS providers and ICBs faced with eye-watering demands to cut costs and hit ambitious targets while weathering strike action and record flu levels.

Viva Las Vegas!

By Liz Wells 26 January 2026

MedTech companies from across the globe unveiled new technologies earlier this month that could help achieve the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan

DIGITAL

Commissioning for digital transformation at scale: a playbook for ICBs in a time of turbulence

26 January 2026

Chris Garner argues system-level strategic commissioning of digital solutions is essential to equipping the NHS for the next decade

LEFT-SHIFT VIEWS

Left-shift views - Learning banks

26 January 2026

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

WORKFORCE

The traumatised organisation

By Lee Peart 07 January 2026

Kate Jury, managing partner, Niche Health and Social Care Consulting, discusses recognising and addressing organisational trauma

COMMUNITY

We're fighting the waiting lists war in the wrong place

19 December 2025

Kat James, joint managing director at Consultant Connect, says offering greater incentives to shift healthcare from hospital to the community is key to bringing down waiting lists.

Partnering power with love

By Lee Peart 17 December 2025

Matthew Taylor has a book recommendation for those leading NHS reforms.

ESTATES

Built to last

By Lee Peart 16 December 2025

Kevin Hawkins, operations director at Kajima Partnerships, argues new healthcare funding models must deliver more than buildings

REGULATION

Delivering real change

By Lee Peart 11 December 2025

Dr Lorin Lakasing, author of Delivering the truth: Why NHS maternity care is broken and how we can fix it together, says real changes to the NHS requires real changes to NHS inquiries.

WORKFORCE

Realities beneath the headlines

By Lee Peart 09 December 2025

Julie Rogers, chief executive at the Healthcare People Management Association and Paul O’Donnell, managing director at NHS workplace relations specialist CMP, say blaming line managers for workplac...