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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.

Jo Vigor explains how the ABC framework of staff wellbeing can help trusts understand their NHS Staff Survey results.

Now the Health and Care Act has been passed, Richard Murray reflects on the negotiations that went down to the wire, what didn’t make it and what’s needed to ensure the reforms are successful.

Will the target of 50,000 more nurses in the NHS by March 2024 be enough to meet the level of demand? Jonathon Holmes and David Maguire look at the story behind the data.

Social prescribing link workers are on the front line of the fight for population health. They know it, but need more support to deliver on the promise of their roles, as Laura Lamming explores.

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.

In a recent roundtable, local health leaders identified five relationships that need to be strengthened to successfully manage elective backlogs.

How has the Covid-19 pandemic and its effect on health services affected public perceptions of the NHS? The results of the 2021 British Social Attitudes survey reveal an unprecedented drop in public satisfaction with health services.

The National Audit Office has judged the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out has been value for money, but what next for the vaccine programme? Nicholas Timmins outlines the challenges that lie ahead.

What can be done to help address the health and care workforce crisis? Suzie Bailey and Michael West outline seven key actions leaders can take.

Despite being one of the biggest employers in England, only 6 per cent of the NHS workforce is under 25. Joni Jabbal explores how more young people can be supported into employment in the NHS.

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.

Richard Murray has a sense of déjà vu as he writes his 2022 New Year blog. Covid-19 will bring challenges to implementing the many changes in store for the health and care system this year, but the biggest challenge is tackling the workforce shortage – a challenge the government has so far refused to face.

Simon Bottery explores reasons for the lack of younger workers in social care and finds snapshots of innovation among providers trying to reverse the trend.

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.

Mark Doughty shares a personal story, revealing the value and power of compassionate care and leadership at all levels.

The wider impacts of Covid-19 – the economic and social impacts on different communities – need to be a central focus of recovery work from the pandemic. Directors of public health have a key role to play, but this work requires community leadership, a well-resourced public health workforce and a sustained, whole-system effort, writes Deborah Fenney.

Provider collaboratives need to invest in developing clinical and professional leadership if they are to be truly collaborative and make a difference for patients, says Paula Head.