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

Steven Pleasant, Chief Executive, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, and Su Long, Chief Officer, Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group, give an overview of plans to devolve responsibility for health and social care to statutory organisations in Greater Manchester. The benefits of the plans are the closer integration of public services and decisions that are better aligned with the needs of residents.

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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.

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

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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.

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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