
45 episodes

Health On The Line NHS Confederation
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Fresh perspectives on the healthcare challenges of our time and ways to confront them. Fortnightly interviews with movers and shakers making waves across health and care.
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Improvement is more than an add-on or nice-to-have
In this special episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Sam Allen and Penny Pereira to explore the nuts and bolts of improvement at system level, its role in large-scale change and propelling transformation. Get to grips with improvement fundamentals, the factors needed for it to flourish and why building community is key to making it stick. This episode follows the launch of a new partnership between the NHS Confederation, Health Foundation and Q community to support health and care systems to learn and improve. Sam Allen is chief executive of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and Penny Pereira, managing director of Q at the Health Foundation.
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Prof Sir Chris Ham: We need a culture of commitment to improvement, not compliance
The NHS has renewed its focus on improvement, with integrated care systems charged with becoming ‘self-improving systems’ across England. While a necessary challenge, no other country in the world has undertaken improvement at this scale. In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Prof Sir Chris Ham to unpack the system model of improvement – what it means, where it is working well and how it can shift the dial. It draws out key lessons from Sir Chris’ report, commissioned by the NHS Confederation, Health Foundation and Q community, on how to improve health and care at scale.
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Lord Markham CBE: NHS capital, innovation and economic regeneration
Are changes needed to the NHS’s capital programme? In a first for Health on the Line, Matthew Taylor puts the question directly to the minister in charge. Tune is as Lord Markham CBE shares his views on the New Hospitals Programme, capital funding cycles and approvals processes. Get his take on the NHS’s role in economic regeneration, investment in out-of-hospital care and how to tackle the ‘innovation paradox’.
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The data dilemma: Does data help or hinder patient care in mental health?
In June 2023, the final report from a minister-commissioned review was released; the report followed a rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings. In this episode Dr Geraldine Strathdee, chair of the review, talks to Mental Health Network chief executive Sean Duggan about its key findings and recommendations. Delve into the detail of how data across the system can enable people to make better decisions to improve lives and care.
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Is health beyond the hospital the key to alleviating system pressures?
From the NHS Confederation's Health Beyond the Hospital conference, Matthew Taylor hosts a discussion on out-of-hospital care and how novel collaborative approaches can lead to unexpected benefits.
Coinciding with the launch of our report Unlocking the Power of Health Beyond the Hospital, Matthew is joined by Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Karen Jackson, chief executive of Locala Community Partnerships CIC, Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers and James Sanderson, director of community health services and personalised care at NHS England.
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Isabel Hardman: We go too far with the NHS as a religion analogy
Author and journalist Isabel Hardman discusses how from its inception the NHS has always had a unique political undercurrent running alongside the day-to-day healthcare challenges. On the launch of her new book on the history of the NHS, she reveals how successive governments and health ministers have approached the challenge of dealing with one of the UK’s most beloved institutions.
Isabel’s new is book is “Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that made our NHS”
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