Jeremy Hunt: my priorities as the new Health Secretary

Jeremy Hunt gave his first speech as the newly reinstated Health Secretary at The King's Fund's fifth annual leadership and management summit on 20 May 2015. In it, he reflects on his performance to date, the election campaign and the NHS five year forward view, and lays out his priorities: obesity and diabetes, general practice and the culture of the NHS.

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Chris Ham: seven-day NHS services, BBC Radio 4 Today

Chris Ham spoke to the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, saying that a seven-day NHS is 'absolutely the right thing to do', but that there is 'a price-tag attached'. He also highlighted the workforce issues involved, with some hospitals struggling to recruit enough senior medical staff.

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Steven Pleasant and Su Long: delivering the Greater Manchester health and social care strategy

Steven Pleasant and Su Long give an overview of plans to devolve responsibility for health and social care to statutory organisations in Greater Manchester.

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Nick Timmins: learning from system leaders

Nicholas Timmins, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, talks through the findings of our report on the practice of system leadership, which draws on the experiences of 10 senior leaders from different backgrounds.

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Kim Holt: what are the biggest barriers to achieving culture change within the health service?

Dr Kim Holt is a paediatrician with Whittington Health NHS Trust who ‘blew the whistle’ in the Baby P case in Haringey. In this talk, she shares her experiences and discusses the need to change how the system deals with whistle-blowers.

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Roger Kline: how does discrimination in governance and leadership impact on patient care?

Roger Kline, Research Fellow, Middlesex University Business School, explains why the absence of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff from the leadership of the NHS is serious, systemic and has shown no real sign of improving in recent years.

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Vivienne Lyfar-Cissé: what will it take to achieve black and minority ethnic equity in the NHS?

Dr Vivienne Lyfar-Cissé, Chair, NHS BME Network, talks about some of the features of system leadership and about what it will take to achieve black and minority ethnic equity in the NHS.

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