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Health devolution: opportunity or distraction?

By Lee Peart 07 April 2026

Katherine Merrifield, assistant director at The Health Foundation, says the creation of mayoral health commissioners is a significant step but must be enabled by a genuinely joined-up approach, whe...

PREVENTION

The cost of staying healthy

By Lee Peart 07 April 2026

Operations & development director, Suzanne Jobson, explains how Children North East's Poverty Proofing® healthcare work supports local families.

INTEGRATED CARE

Left-shift views – A suggestion on bed blocking

02 April 2026

Our correspondent Melissa Harvard looks outside the box to provide a radical solution for healthcare

CANCER

Partnerships: enabling delivery of the National Cancer Plan

02 April 2026

Delivering the Government’s new National Cancer Plan will depend not only on policy ambition but on imaginative, purposeful partnerships that fully integrate external support from organisations tha...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Closing the collaboration gap

02 April 2026

Victor Adebowale looks at how to move from rhetoric to reality and make collaboration between local government and health possible.

WORKFORCE

The real value of AI in healthcare is human, not technology

27 March 2026

Roy Wills, head of healthcare business and partnerships at Intellias, explains how AI can reduce workforce burnout

ESTATES

Expert tips as NHS estates prepare for the Premises Assurance Model (PAM) assessment

26 March 2026

Les Bewick, expert at SFG20, the industry standard for healthcare facilities management, shares a PAM readiness checklist to provide clarity on how NHS facilities can effectively prepare for assess...

PROCUREMENT

What health sector contract redistribution means for providers

26 March 2026

Executive Compass, a bid and tender writing specialist, examines what the redistribution of health sector spend means in practice, and how providers can position themselves with a clear, effective ...

SOCIAL CARE

A design moment for social care

26 March 2026

Paul Burstow, chair of the board, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), says the Fair Pay Agreement and Casey Commission create a rare opportunity to revisit the design of social care.

PREVENTION

EXCLUSIVE: Delivering sustainable change in NEET

26 March 2026

Helen Macdonald, senior clinical advisor, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, says If the Government’s NEET strategy is to deliver sustainable change, it must be unde...

Moving data where it's needed

18 March 2026

Marlen Suller, managing director for EMEA Clinical Diagnostics at Magentus, says the National Cancer Plan cannot succeed without connected data infrastructure.