Publications

Dr Kin Yee Shiu, a consultant in nephrology and acute/general medicine at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, talks about her experience of our Leadership for consultants programme and the challenge of leading change.

The stalling of improvements in life expectancy in the UK since 2011, highlighted again in the most recent data, has prompted much comment and speculation. We must look at austerity and beyond for underlying causes, says Veena Raleigh.

Suzie recently joined The King’s Fund as Director of Leadership and Organisational Development. We talk to her about the challenges facing leaders from across the health and care system.

Suzie Bailey and Saffron Cordery from NHS Providers reflect on the findings of our joint report and the challenge of recruiting and retaining leadership roles.

The role of leaders is changing as we move towards integrated care, with significant efforts needed to build a pipeline of leaders, say Saffron Cordery and Suzie Bailey.

The 70th anniversary of the NHS is an opportunity to reflect on its enduring popularity and to ask what people can expect from the service and what their obligations are in return, says Chris Ham.

In light of recent announcements, Harry Evans argues it is now time for the NHS to step out of the shadow of past implementation failures.

Chris Ham and Anna Charles outline the findings and recommendations of the Health and Social Care Committee’s review of integrated care development in the NHS.

In this extract from our NHS England-commissioned report on developing new models of care in the PACS vanguards, Don Berwick offers an international perspective.

Taj Hassan answers questions about how clinicians are contributing to transformational change in the NHS.

Joan Milne and David Naylor talk about their experience of commissioning and running the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) leadership development programme.  

Test bed initiatives show that, beyond technology, pathway transformation is what leads to the real change.

Mandip Randhawa writes about the challenges of transforming mental health services for children and young people.

We examine the big issues and recent NHS performance on waiting times.

Services are at full stretch and struggling to maintain standards, says Chris Ham.

We talk to Matthew Lanham, Chief Executive of the Neuromuscular Centre – a charity that won a GSK IMPACT Award in recognition of its work to improve people's health.

As we launch a new scheme for alumni of our Top Manager Programme, Mark Redhead talks to us about his experience of the programme and how he is applying what he learned to his work.

In July NHS England published its first 'progress dashboard' for the 44 new sustainability and transformation partnerships, but these new ratings are narrowly focused and centrally driven, say Hugh Alderwick and Veena Raleigh.

Matthew Lewis and Julia Fernando discuss what the barriers and enablers to transformational change are, and why this type of change is key to the future of the NHS.