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How can social prescribing better support migrant women's health and wellbeing?

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.
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By Dr Loreen Chikwira - 20 May 2022 4-minute read
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England has a new drugs strategy – what now lies ahead?

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.
By Oliver Standing, Director, Collective Voice, Chris Lee, Chair, English Substance Use Commissioners' Group, Danny Hames, Chair, NHS Addictions Provider Alliance, Kate Halliday, Executive Director, Addiction Professionals, Stuart Green, Recovery Connectors Group, College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO), Vivienne Evans, Chief Executive, Adfam - 7 April 2022 5-minute read
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Integrated care systems need to be different - but how exactly?

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.
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By Chris Naylor - 28 March 2022 4-minute read
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Time for a specific focus on adult social care leadership

The Messenger review of health and care leadership won’t be able to give social care the time and attention it deserves, says Simon Bottery. It’s time to look specifically at the unique set of skills required in the sector – and how best to support their development.
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By Simon Bottery - 9 March 2022 4-minute read
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Tired of being exhausted: seven key actions for leaders in the NHS workforce crisis

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.
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By Suzie Bailey, Michael West - 15 February 2022 7-minute read
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A brief history of health and care: 125 years of influence and insight at The King’s Fund

As The King’s Fund celebrates its 125th anniversary, Richard Murray looks at how the world of health and care policy may not have changed as much as we might think.
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By Richard Murray - 7 February 2022 5-minute read
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Time for local NHS leaders to take a first step in tackling poverty: pay staff the real Living Wage

Tackling poverty is core business, and the NHS can start by addressing low pay in its own workforce, as many other public services have.
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By Toby Lewis - 25 January 2022 5-minute read
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Partnering is a verb

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.
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By Jo Maybin, Deborah Fenney - 4 November 2021 4-minute read
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The recipe for success at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: tackling the wider determinants of health

How can the new Office for Health Improvement and Disparities maximise its chances of success? Sally Warren thinks the answer is building its influence across Whitehall, and across regions and local areas to tackle the wider determinants of health.
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By Sally Warren - 30 September 2021 5-minute read
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We need to move from person-centred to community-centred services

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.
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By Angela Fell - 3 September 2021 4-minute read
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Continuity and change? Six things to distinguish Amanda Pritchard’s leadership of the NHS

Amanda Pritchard’s appointment as Chief Executive of NHS England was seen as a triumph of the continuity candidate. But while the direction of reform will not change, there are real opportunities and a need for a new leadership style, as Sally Warren writes.
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By Sally Warren - 29 July 2021 4-minute read
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The Health and Care Bill: a threat to the operational independence of the NHS?

Nicholas Timmins outlines why greater ministerial powers over the day-to-day running of the NHS proposed in the Health and Care Bill might not work for the service or for ministers.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 9 July 2021 5-minute read
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Who will be the next NHS England Chief Executive?

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.
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By Mandip Randhawa - 6 July 2021 3-minute read
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On leadership that leads to racial justice

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.
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By Tracie Jolliff - 12 May 2021 10-minute read
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Sir Simon Stevens steps down – the end of an era?

As Sir Simon Stevens announces his departure, Nicholas Timmins looks back at his time as Chief Executive of the NHS and the legacy he leaves.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 4 May 2021 5-minute read
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Supporting place-based partnerships: what role should national leaders play?

Richard Murray outlines how greater local autonomy is key to developing truly integrated care and considers the implications for national and regional leaders.
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By Richard Murray - 20 April 2021 4-minute read
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Reforming the Mental Health Act: The King’s Fund’s response

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.
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By Helen Gilburt - 24 March 2021
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Covid-19 one year on: how can the health and care system recover?

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.
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By Richard Murray - 23 March 2021 4-minute read
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Taking your approach to population health and tackling health inequalities to the next level

How can organisations and individuals strengthen population health approaches and better tackle health inequalities? Durka Dougall looks at how to move from aspiration into action.
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By Durka Dougall - 11 March 2021 4-minute read
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The hunt for good leadership in social care

Where does good leadership in social care exist? Richard Humphries reflects on the search he and Nicholas Timmins undertook to find an answer.
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By Richard Humphries - 11 February 2021 4-minute read
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