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Women occupy less leadership space in the health and care sector than men and continue to be under-represented in leadership positions, despite making up 78 per cent the workforce. Mandip Randhawa and Simon Newitt describe The King’s Fund’s re-imagined leadership development programme for women who want to change that.

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.

Integrated care systems are intended to be part of a new way of working in health and care based on principles of partnership and collective responsibility. Chris Naylor asks whether this original vision is already at risk and what making a reality of it would involve.

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.

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.

Inclusive language has an important role to play in health and care, particularly when it comes to addressing health inequalities. Emily Lennon reflects on the impact of language on underrepresented groups, and explains why it’s more than just using ‘correct’ terminology.

Listening to people and learning from their experiences offers the opportunity to change care for the better. Imelda Redmond, National Director of Healthwatch England, explains why involving users will give a better, bigger picture of how integration is working.

As Sir Simon Stevens prepares to step down from his role as Chief Executive of the NHS, Mandip Randhawa considers the characteristics and leadership qualities his successor should hold.

To make the most of the opportunities offered by integrated care systems and local place-based working, partnership-working needs to be about more than just relationships between organisations. Now is the time to embrace community power and strengthen community engagement and involvement, says Chris Naylor.

Tracie Jolliff, Head of Inclusive System Development at NHS England and NHS Improvement, shares her thoughts on the role of leaders in developing cultures that deliver racially and socially just outcomes.

The results of the NHS Staff Survey suggests that more needs to be done to support staff who identify as LGBTQ+. How can NHS organisations do this? Michael Alexander of GLADD, The Association of LGBTQ+ Doctors and Dentists offers some suggestions.

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.

Helen Gilburt shares her research into how mental health and social care professionals make decisions around whether to detain people with mental disorders under the Mental Health Act or the Mental Capacity Act – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Her research uncovered a range of understandings and misunderstandings which impact on practice.

How can NHS services use their facilities to better support social prescribing? Ben Collins highlights what’s needed to make NHS sites more welcoming spaces for individuals and communities.

Digital tools and services are increasingly being used in health and care, but what happens to all the data that is collected, who should have access to it and who decides? Pritesh Mistry outlines the value of trust and transparency in these complex agreements

In the third and final blog in the series on our collaborative research about working on diversity and inclusion in the Fund, Sue Hills and Shilpa Ross share how the experiences of the research process and the findings are shaping how we continue this work.

In the second blog in the series about our collaborative research on working on diversity and inclusion in the Fund, members of the research group share how participating in this research has created a sense of community and changed their individual and collective relationships with each other.