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Our most recent blogs
Enabling service transformation in practice: reflections on the Wade-Gery review
Will the Wade-Gery review enable the NHS to make a leap forwards on tech and data? Tim Horton reflects on what matters for enabling service transformation in practice.
Up to the challenge?
Hugh Alderwick provides an overview of the government’s plans for spending and reform across the NHS and social care.
Which is most important for good mental health: paid work, avoiding poverty or money itself?
Researchers from the University of Glasgow use longitudinal data to study the relationship between changes in employment, income, poverty and mental health.
An anchor approach to sustainability
Drawing on findings from the Health Anchors Learning Network, Jenna Collins explores how the NHS can help combat climate change through its role as an anchor institution.
A healthy economy needs healthy people
Andrew Goddard, president of the RCP, sets out the importance of cross-government working to put people and health before profit.
Introducing Economies for Healthier Lives
How will our four projects, led by partners in Glasgow, Havant, Leeds and Liverpool, deliver place-based improvements to the economy and local people’s health?
If it takes a village to raise a child, why aren’t we doing more to support parents?
Anita Mehay and Cara Leavey share their thoughts about the socioeconomic inequalities that can disproportionately affect families from minority ethnic backgrounds, and the recent government announceme...
What is sustainable?
A summary of our work to ensure productivity and sustainable improvement is at the heart of NHS recovery and reform.
Promises and progress: what has COP26 got to do with health?
Climate change and health are inextricably linked. Jennifer Dixon reflects on the related challenges and opportunities ahead of COP26.
Getting REAL on future health and social care funding
What’s next, and what’s needed, for health and social care funding? Elaine Kelly rounds up recent evidence from the REAL Centre.
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