GPs and PCNs
Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are not about meetings
Everybody is talking about Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. Whether it’s the NHS 10-Year Plan, Neighbourhood Health Centres, place based care or integrated delivery models, the language is now everywhere. The direction of travel feels increasingly clear. Care should be delivered closer to home, organisations should work together more effectively, and services should be designed around populations…
Read MoreWhy I’m hosting The Embedded Seminar
Despite considering it for a number of years, I’ve always resisted running an event. There are already plenty of NHS conferences – they’re all well intentioned and most of them are informative. Adding another one didn’t feel necessary. But over the last few years, I’ve worked inside NHS systems under real operational pressure while also…
Read MoreNHS Hospital League Tables – A Transparency Tool Or A Catalyst For Real Change?
The launch of new NHS hospital league tables has generated a wave of debate across the health service. Announced as part of the government’s push to raise standards and improve accountability, the tables rank every NHS trust in England against around 30 different performance metrics. They are designed to provide a clearer, more comparable picture…
Read MoreNHS 10-year Plan: From Hospital To Community: The Promise And The Problem Of Neighbourhood Health
Chapter Two of the NHS 10‑Year Plan introduces one of its most radical and hopeful ideas; a fully integrated, community led Neighbourhood Health Service. If realised, it could transform the way patients experience care, bringing General Practice, community pharmacy, diagnostics, social care, mental health and prevention into one cohesive, locally delivered system. It’s a great…
Read MoreNHS 10-Year Plan: It’s Change Or Bust – And The NHS Chooses Change
The NHS 10-Year Plan opens with a terrifying warning: without fundamental reform, the NHS as we know it will cease to function. Chapter one of the plan ‘It’s Change or Bust’, sets the tone. It describes an NHS at a historic crossroads, overwhelmed by growing demand, outdated structures, workforce fatigue and worsening public confidence. The…
Read MoreThe NHS 10-Year Plan: Strategic Vision or Delivery Dilemma?
After working through all ten chapters of the NHS 10-Year Plan, one thing is clear, this is a plan with vision. It offers a compelling picture of a more integrated, preventive, community based NHS, rooted in neighbourhood teams, powered by data and innovation and focused on population health and outcomes. But it’s also a plan…
Read MoreFalse economies: Why cheaper drugs are costing the NHS millions
For years, the NHS has clung to the belief that it can save its way out of a financial black hole. Nowhere is this more evident than in prescribing budgets, where scrutiny of drug costs often overshadows the real purpose of medicines: to improve patient outcomes and reduce pressure on frontline services. It’s time we…
Read MoreNew year, new government and new opportunities
As a new year dawns and a new government gets its feet firmly under the table, my focus is on how 2025 can bring fresh opportunities for you to engage with the NHS effectively. This year, my revamped online learning programme is designed specifically for pharma, med tech, and device companies looking to unlock new…
Read MoreUnlocking NHS sales opportunities through customer insights
When it comes to engaging the NHS, the biggest challenge sales and market access teams face isn’t just getting in the room – it’s knowing what to say when they’re in there. In my work over the past year, I’ve seen this play out time and again. Teams approach NHS decision-makers without truly understanding their…
Read MoreGPs and NHS England on collision course as winter crisis looms
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) collective action is a recurring theme in my work at the moment and with good reason – the BMA’s action is about to steam headlong into the NHS winter pressure plans. As part of those plans, GPs have just been told to avoid hospital admissions. Most of my customers couldn’t…
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