The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership. Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care. Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW

If you’re wondering what the Public Office (Accountability) Bill aka #HillsboroughLaw means, listen to one of its architects explain: making state cover ups of failures harder through cultural change 👇🏻 @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social @cbffjuk.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed if we invest in management. Here are 5 reasons why strong, skilled management is critical to better care. Full long read: https://bit.ly/437AuPW @profjudithsmith.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social

Delighted to author this new report from @hsmcentre.bsky.social and @thekingsfund.bsky.social along with @suziebailey.bsky.social and @chrisham.bsky.social NHS management matters so much and needs professionalising, support and investment, not denigration.

Want authoritative, critical overviews of major improvement approaches in healthcare? The @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk-edited Cambridge Elements series is free to access, and covers everything from culture change to statistical process control - & most recently, Lean. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

NOW OPEN: The #NHSProductivityCommission Call for Evidence is a chance for you to share your ideas about how productivity could be improved across hospital care, primary care, community care and mental health. More information and guidance for responding ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY

Great piece with Mark Mardell on the Today programme about Turkish Airlines chucking him off a flight because of his Parkinson’s. Read the full grisly story here www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...

At @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge, we're looking for a talented early career researcher to support an exciting programme of work on innovation and improvement in healthcare. This is a great opportunity. Apply by 18 November www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...

New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻

This analysis of the #NHS #TenYearPlan in @bmj.com is spot on👇🏻

A beautiful sunset amidst very stormy weather here in the Scottish Borders.

New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Check out our latest BRACE Bulletin with news about our Centre and evaluations tinyurl.com/BRACE-Bullet...

Latest research on public attitudes from me👇 “The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”

It was a real thriller (and a very pleasant surprise) at #Edgbaston this evening!

NEW: There's much that the English NHS can learn from other countries' experience of shifting care from hospitals into communities. Here @sjanereed.bsky.social sets out the lessons from what's been happening in Denmark and Ireland👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...

Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...

Services for patients thrown into limbo include special educational needs, emergency planning, safeguarding services and Continuijg Healthcare - where the NHS provides community care for people with long term conditions like motor neurone disease.

Do you have a track record of producing top quality research and policy analysis? We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care. 👇 #ResearchJobs #ThinkTankJobs #recruiting

We're looking for a Policy Fellow to join our team. Focusing on NHS reform, you'll explore how the organisation of the NHS, regulation, payment systems and other policy levers can drive change, improve services and reduce health inequalities. Apply by 23.00 on 20 August ⬇️ https://bit.ly/41oDgzb

Last week, we met with Pat McFadden MP and Abena Oppong-Asare MP, who lead the government’s response to the Covid Inquiry, to discuss progress on our recommendations. Here is what has been done so far, and what still needs to happen: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/blog/from-gr...

An excellent and pacy performance by #Illyria theatre company of Merry Wives of Windsor at #WinterbourneHouse and Gardens @unibirmingham.bsky.social this evening. Bravo all!

A lovely afternoon for the first #Hundred cricket match at #Edgbaston this year. Contest between my home and adopted teams today! #Phoenix #Rockets

🆕 We're kicking off our new blog series #HSRUK25 Unpacked! 🆕 First up: lived expert Chandrika Kaviraj & researcher Andy Bradshaw reflect on co-producing their #HSRUK25 conference session and what real co-production looks like in practice Read it here ⬇️ hsruk.org/hsruk/viewpo...

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Primary care professionals: interested in applying evidence-based approaches to innovation in your practice? We can help! Join @hsmcentre.bsky.social for 'Rapid Reviews of Service Innovations in Primary Care: An Introduction & Step-by-Step Guide' 🗓️ 10 Sept 🎟️ birminghamhealthpartners.co.uk/events/

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor (1966-July 2023) (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art below created for the cover of her 1994 album 'Universal Mother' #WomensArt

Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel: 22 Frauen jagen einem Ball hinterher und am Ende trifft Chloe Kelly und England gewinnt. Yes, Lionesses. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!!

When you don’t know which #England sport to watch (we’re watching the #womenseuros however) #cricketcanwait

DHSC has now published its proposals to regulate (or rather bar) #NHS managers. In this @bmj.com paper, @suziebailey.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social & I argue that regulation needs to be accompanied by wider changes to professionalise, train & support leaders: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Policy exchange, backed by Sajid Javid, think we need to switch the NHS funding model to social insurance, and introduce new charges for NHS services, like to see a GP policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... These are not new ideas, but they are bad ideas A thread with some evidence

Thank you @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a wonderful, thoughtful and celebratory graduation day

#Bordeaux is beautiful, and has wonderful public spaces and transport

Our Co-Director Judith Smith's recent blog about the NHS 10 year plan is worth a read!

The first of our great short guides to major improvement approaches, complementing our equally great open access Cambridge University Press elements series www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

It is as if the magpies who assembled the plan were so focussed on collecting bright shiny baubles to adorn the nest, they forgot to collect the construction materials to build the structure of the nest.

Excellent spot-on analysis of the #NHS Ten Year Plan in this thread by @policyskeptic.bsky.social 👇🏻

I went last week to the funeral of Penny Mullen who died in May aged 81. She was an academic at the Health Services Management Centre in Birmingham for many years, supervised my PhD, and was later a colleague. Uncompromising, irascible but absolutely dedicated to her students and her work. RIP.

📣Read @profjudithsmith.bsky.social's (Birmingham School of @birminghamschool.bsky.social) new article in @theconversation.com where she explores what's in and what's missing from the eagerly awaited ten-year health plan for England theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

New comment piece by me & colleagues in @bmj.com on the using health data for research in UK Processes are so complex and so slow now that less research is happening and we are wasting the enormous potential of the NHS to drive innovation www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A huge thank you to our speakers, chairs, delegates, partners and the event team for making this such a brilliant conference! Keep your eyes peeled for our series of follow-up blogs and upcoming researcher network opportunities! And we hope to see you all in Manchester in 2026!

Today is the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on London on 7th July 2005, a terrible day on which 52 people were killed by four bombs on three tube trains and a bus. The King and Prime Minister Keir Starmer will lead national commemorations today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

I wrote my latest HSJ Mythbuster column before the NHS 10-year plan was released but now I've read the plan the column accidentally summarises one of its major problems: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

In case you missed it: my article for @uk.theconversation.com on theTen Year Health Plan for England. So many ideas (and some good ones at that) but precious little about how to implement them. #NHSPlan #FitForTheFuture #NHS #healthpolicy theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

However there is one genuinely radical proposal in the Plan that could make neighbourhood health a reality also worth catching @mayorofgm.bsky.social recent @instituteforgov speech on this x.com/mayorofgm/st...

An excellent analysis… I’d add without properly investing in local government public health which commissions prevention services as well as adult and children’s social care especially reablement, aids & adaptations, domicilary care & supported living then much of the vision will remain just that1/2

My initial reflections for @uk.theconversation.com on #NHS Ten Year Health Plan👇🏻