Opinion
By Angus Metcalfe, Managing Director, Global Healthcare, BSI The health service can’t “do everything for everyone”, says Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The proposed 10 Year Health Plan, which is under consultation and due to be unveiled this spring, sets a vision for “a truly modern health service” designed to meet changing needs – a goal [...]
This spring, Labour plans to unveil its 10-year NHS strategy, focusing on illness prevention, local care, and digital transformation. It promises to be a defining moment shaping both the future of our publicly funded health service and the party who founded it. By: Steve Haskew, Group Director of Sustainability and Growth, Circular Computing While Wes [...]
By Lisa Farrell, business development manager at the National Robotarium The NHS stands at a critical crossroads. With productivity levels still lagging 16% behind pre-pandemic figures and over 31,000 nursing positions unfilled across England alone, our healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges. Yet within this crisis lies an opportunity for transformation through strategic deployment of robotics [...]
Piyush Mahapatra, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and chief innovation officer at Open Medical, considers the latest consultation on the future of the NHS, and argues that what is needed is not a new vision, but a plan for delivery; and some radical new thinking on the role of healthcare technology. There is a new ten-year [...]
Odgers Berndtson’s Chris Hamilton and Mike Drew, explain how health tech leaders can build cross-disciplinary teams to drive innovation and better patient outcomes in their organisations The health tech industry thrives on innovation, much of which emerges from the intersection of diverse disciplines. Leaders must master the art of fostering collaboration across clinicians, engineers, data [...]
By Paul Webber, Senior Product Management Director at BlackBerry The healthcare sector, like many other critical industries, is facing mounting threats from bad actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities that disrupt operations, compromise sensitive data, and endanger citizen safety. The reality is that threat actors are quickly adopting new, AI-enabled techniques to increase the volume and [...]
NHS England has published its 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance, focusing on improving patient access, reducing waiting times, and enhancing operational efficiency. Key priorities include reducing elective care waiting times, with a goal of ensuring 65 per cent of patients are treated within 18 weeks by March 2026, as well as improving A&E and [...]
By Rachel Sabo, Senior Consultant at EatMoreFruit Communications Over eighty per cent of businesses rank in-person events as their most impactful marketing channel. In fact, 48 per cent of teams say events are more important today than pre-pandemic. When done right, events can become their own marketing platform for a mindset shift. However, their effectiveness [...]
Ahead of his talk at Rewired 2025, Andy Haywood, Group Chief Digital Officer at NHS Humber Health Partnership, shares his insights on how digital transformation is reshaping patient care and system-wide operations through innovative solutions and strategic deployment of technology. In healthcare we often talk about digital transformation, but what truly matters is how these [...]
By Max Gattlin, Commercial Director, X-on Health The latest figures show that general practice delivered a record 38.6m appointments in October 2024 (or more than 40m if you include COVID-19 jabs), that’s the highest ever one-month total on record. Alongside this, primary care struggles with overwhelming demand and clinician shortages, and GP leaders warn that [...]
