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Loreen Chikwira explores how better listening, collaborative working with minority ethnic women and better support for link workers can improve how social prescribing supports migrant women.

Oliver Standing, Director of Collective Voice, and colleagues from the Alliance Group, explore the opportunities offered by England’s new drugs strategy, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.

Despite no big announcements on NHS spending, the Spring Statement did contain some details for the health service to pay attention to. Siva Anandaciva outlines how inflation, the health and care levy and aims to improve efficiency will all have an impact.

Funding for local public health has been getting more complicated, making it harder for directors of public health to plan, and for transparency for anyone looking on, seeking to understand what is happening. David Buck looks at the different pieces of the jigsaw.

Tackling poverty is core business, and the NHS can start by addressing low pay in its own workforce, as many other public services have.

Despite Covid-19 dominating the year, there were plenty of other health and care policy headlines in 2021. Siva Anandaciva takes a look back at the key moments of the past year.

David Buck and Toby Lewis consider the opportunities of NHS England’s new ‘Core20plus5’ approach to tackling health inequalities, and reflect on how the NHS begins to adapt its role and work more strongly with others to tackle the root causes as well as symptoms.

The NHS is facing the challenges of growing waiting lists, missed performance targets and a severe workforce shortage. How will public attitudes towards the health service change if the taxpayer-funded increase in health spending doesn’t result in improvements?

Partnership working can be transformative – if it works well. Here we share two techniques, observed as part of the Healthy Communities Together programme, that can help in forming healthy partnerships.

Siva Anandaciva brings together the recent announcements on health and care spending from the Autumn Budget and Spending Review.

What changes will the Health and Care Bill bring to financial planning in the NHS? Siva Anandaciva looks at where and how decisions about money in the NHS will be made.

The backlog of maintenance problems and the poor state of NHS buildings could have an impact on the ability of the service to tackle the backlog of care. Siva Anandaciva outlines why the state of NHS estate matters.

Siva Anandaciva brings together the recent announcements on health and care spending, and considers what the numbers might mean in practice and what might be in store in the upcoming Spending Review.

Richard Murray gives his take on the new health and social care levy, and what’s needed to make sure this new funding delivers real change.

Angela Fell, Director of Northern Heart and Soul in Wigan, outlines why we should move beyond person-centred services to a community-centred approach in order to transform people's health and wellbeing.

Siva Anandaciva outlines why a health and care levy might not be enough to address the workforce challenges and growing waiting lists the NHS and social care are currently facing.

What does ‘levelling up’ mean – and how can the government start to tackle the issues it covers? Jonathon Holmes looks at the challenges of turning a slogan into action.

Data, funding and workforce – if the government wants its proposed reforms to the MHA to create change these system-wide enablers are as important as individual changes to legislation. Helen Gilburt consider the issues.

As we reach the one-year anniversary of the start of lockdown in the United Kingdom, Richard Murray outlines how a whole-system response will best support staff and patients and help to tackle inequalities.

With funding settlements and short-term boosts already provided, what will the upcoming Budget mean for health and care? Sally Warren considers how the system can support local economies while improving population health as the country responds to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.