Healthcare degree apprenticeships: A powerful prescription for social mobility
For too many young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, a stable and meaningful career in healthcare still feels out of reach. Yet, our NHS depends on exactly the qualities these individuals often bring in abundance: compassion, resilience, and a deep connection to the communities they serve.
Partnering for progress: How BHRUT and 18 Week Support are transforming women’s health services
Across the NHS, the race is on to reduce elective backlogs and ensure timely patient care, particularly in high-demand specialties such as women’s health. Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT) has taken an innovative approach to meet these pressures head-on.
Four calls for action on children and young people’s health
The government’s health reforms are clear: shift care from hospitals to communities, focus on prevention, and embrace digital transformation. With NHS England planning guidance out earlier this year, now is the time to stop talking and start acting.
The first step in tackling racial inequity is listening to the people who experience it
Racial inequity affects the whole of society, and tackling it means listening to the voices of as many people as possible, write Habib Naqvi, chief executive of NHS Race and Health Observatory and Sam Rodger, assistant director policy and strategy at NHS Race and Health Observatory
‘I felt like I had so much to offer, but I didn’t have a voice’: One carer on valuing lived experience in mental health
After retiring from a long career in teaching, Veronica* found herself stepping into an unexpected role with a renewed sense of purpose – an expert by experience helping to shape the future of mental health services.
The applied learning opportunity: Making data and AI skills attainable for the NHS
Lord Darzi’s review into the future of the NHS calls for a “tilt towards technology” to unlock greater productivity.
Home alone: Remote medication monitoring improves adherence and patient safety
People with mental health issues living at home need constant medication management
How Living Well Consortium used clinical AI to reduce patient dropouts by 14%
For many people, to simply seek mental health support is to have already overcome a huge emotional hurdle. When that bravery is met with phone holds, onerous forms, and months-long waitlists, countless prospective patients give up before even starting care.
How upskilling is powering a digital revolution at North London Foundation Trust
In a time of mounting pressures, one NHS trust is rewriting the script on mental health services.
Beating burnout and backlogs in radiology – ensuring a sustainable teleradiology solution
Radiology services are facing unprecedented strain due to a widening gap: while patient care demands are skyrocketing, evidenced by more than 4.2 billion annual imaging procedures worldwide1, a severe global shortage leaves two-thirds of the world’s population with limited or no radiologist access2.