Health On The Line

By NHS Confederation

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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The podcast currently has 87 episodes available.

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January 17, 2024How the NHS can better engage with citizens and communities
Are systems set up to meet the needs of future generations? Is enough being done to act on the social determinants of health? In this episode, we hear five perspectives on these questions and get their take on why – and how – the relationship between the NHS, citizens and communities needs to change.

Recorded at the ICS Network’s conference in November and chaired by Jacob Lant, chief executive of National Voices, the episode features:

Haris Sultan, NExT Director programme and member West Yorkshire ICB
Oliver Coppard, Mayor, South Yorkshire
Leanora Volpe, Anchor Programme Lead at South East London ICS
Marsha McAdam, Service User Representative and Vice-Chair, Mental Health Network.
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December 13, 2023 Dr Jane Padmore: The joy and fulfilment of working for people with a learning disability
People with a learning disability have poorer health and experience greater and persistent inequalities in health. So how can we shift the dial? In this episode, Dr Jane Padmore, chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, explores how reimagining the workforce, making better use of the voluntary sector and deepening understandings of learning disability, autism and neurodiversity can go some way. Jane, who is also chair of the Mental Health Network’s Learning Disability Forum, shares how a life-changing summer placement ignited a life-long passion that has shaped her career.
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33min
December 06, 2023 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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39min
November 21, 2023 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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November 08, 2023 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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39min
October 18, 2023 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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36min
October 04, 2023 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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53min
July 12, 2023 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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37min
June 28, 2023 Integrated care systems: one year on
A year on from their establishment as statutory organisations, how are integrated care systems (ICSs) getting on? In this episode, Matthew Taylor puts the question to three system leaders, exploring what's working well, what remains to be solved and the difference system working is making locally – to patients, communities and staff. Recorded at NHS ConfedExpo just ahead of the government’s response to the Hewitt review, the conversation explores the issues of accountability and autonomy and where next for systems.

Hear from Amanda Sullivan, chief executive of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, Kevin Lavery, chief executive of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and Patrick Vernon, interim chair of Birmingham and Solihull ICB.
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36min
June 07, 2023 Dr Raghib Ali: We need a cross-society effort to improve health
What will it take to crack the prevention nut? In this episode, Matthew Taylor puts the question to Dr Raghib Ali, chief medical officer and joint chief investigator of the pioneering Our Future Health programme. Discover all about the ambitious research programme, why preventative healthcare is mission critical and why data plays an important role in reimagining healthcare. Plus, get his take on why a more nuanced approach to health inequalities is key.
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35min

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