A circular economy for surgical textiles. Reducing travel emissions through smarter, faster, greener care. Technology that reduces emissions from pain relief 300 times more environmentally harmful than carbon dioxide. These are just some of the award-winning innovations that the NHS will invest in through a new £1 million Net Zero SBRI Healthcare competition. Launched last […]
Jon Bashford, Director of Research at Breaking Barriers Innovations discusses the Clacton Place programme and how this will be working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to as part of the Core20Plus5 programme. As I look out over the sea front in Clacton, North East Essex the expanse of golden sandy beach reminds me of […]
The first ever plan for transformation of NHS Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) will put us in a stronger position than ever before to support staff and patients through rapid and widespread change. Around 1.4 million people work in the NHS. Within that, 16,000 people professionals are responsible for developing and delivering one […]
Eighty per cent of people’s interactions with the NHS occur in their own homes, their GP practices, community pharmacies, dentists or local health centres, and the vast majority of social care services are delivered at home or in the community. So it seems obvious to me as a GP that effective partnership working at neighbourhood, […]
One of the key reasons I enjoy my role so much is because I get to help people tackle the problems that matter to them. Social prescribers like myself keep a very open mind about anyone who comes to see us and make sure to offer a full range of interventions which might help improve […]
Keeping as healthy as possible is a lifetime’s work. From everyday preventative behaviours like cleaning our teeth, to more complex tasks like managing long term health conditions, self care is the default health system. Yet from the formal health system’s perspective, self care largely goes unnoticed – it’s only when self care strategies haven’t been […]
As negotiators gather for the United Nations global climate change summit, COP26, an international group of leaders from some of the NHS’s largest suppliers have come together to pledge their support for a greener NHS, in recognition of the unequivocal threat to health presented by climate change. Left unabated, climate change will disrupt care, with […]
