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How reliable is the data collected about detentions under the Mental Health Act? Veena Raleigh looks at the data quality issues and their implications.

With the publication of the government’s Green Paper on child and adolescent mental health, Jill Roberts looks at how it tackles the issues around inequalities.

Chris Ham urges national leaders to work together to determine what the NHS can deliver with current funding constraints.

London’s devolution deal is the result of years of effort and negotiation. Chris Naylor looks at the opportunities it presents for improving health and care services – and the opportunities it may have missed.

Local care organisations in Greater Manchester are working to improve health and care services for their local populations. Anna Charles shares reflections from a learning network of LCO leaders.

Chris Ham calls on the Chancellor to provide more funding for the NHS and social care before it is too late.

Matthew Kershaw looks at the risks and opportunities for the NHS presented by the government’s focus on Brexit.

In a guest blog, Jane Collins looks at how managers and clinicians can work together better to improve productivity and reduce waste.

Simon Bottery looks at the context behind the latest row on the Better Care Fund and delayed transfers of care.

In light of the recent National Audit Office report, Rachael Smithson considers the Care Quality Commission’s approach and the ways in which the organisation is having an impact on quality of care.

Our new six-and-a half-minute animation explains how the NHS works. Katie Mantell looks at how and why we produced it.

Should we start to look at provider failure as a system issue rather than an organisational one? Chris Ham looks at the lessons the NHS can learn from Greater Manchester.

Richard Murray considers the falling number of nurses and health visitors in the NHS.

Leo Ewbank asks whether sustainability and transformation plan proposals to reduce the number of hospital beds are realistic.

Is the promised extra funding for general practice reaching frontline services? Beccy Baird explains how the lack of national data makes this a hard question to answer.

Chris Ham makes the case for aligning the work of NHS Improvement and NHS England.

Ruth Robertson asks how CCGs will be affected as accountable care organisations/systems and sustainability and transformation plans/partnerships are layered on top of an already complex NHS landscape?

Chris Naylor considers whether public mental health is being prioritised in a world of thinly stretched public health budgets.

Ben Collins reflects on the reintroduction of top-down control of the NHS and system-wide planning, despite legislation that aimed to establish a very different type of health system. How far can this go before the wheels fall off?

In July, Chris Ham joined Sarah Wollaston MP to give the Speaker’s lecture on the future of the NHS in the House of Commons. Here, he summarises his contribution, detailing what needs to be done to secure a sustainable health and social care system.