Health Management and Policy Alert

Core20PLUS Connectors Programme: sustainability leading to system change

Health Creation Alliance -
This report investigates how systems are finding ways to continue the Core20PLUS Connectors Programme and reshape their approach to health equity, people and communities, health creation and prevention. It contains eight insights into the challenges and how they are being overcome that will help any Integrated Care System on its ‘reform journey’.

• Report
• Health Creation Alliance - publications

A framework for the safe, efficient and effective implementation, use and maintenance of AI in health and care in London

One London -
This framework outlines the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) to the future of the NHS across the capital. Possible applications include improving diagnosis rates to faster automation of patient registrations and more accurate patient referral support tools. The framework aims to help the NHS to deliver safe and ethical pathways to use these tools effectively. It covers the agreed way of introducing, using and monitoring AI products across the NHS in London.

• Report
• One London - news

Performance of the health service in England: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care annual report 2022 to 2023

Department of Health and Social Care -
Under the National Health Service Act 2006, there is a legal requirement for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to publish an annual report on the performance of the health and care service in England. This report includes an assessment of: how the Secretary of State has secured the improvement in the quality of services within the NHS; and the progress made to reduce health inequalities for people in England.

• Report
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

What should national policy-makers do to make care closer to home a reality?

The King's Fund -
As part of its 10 Year Health Plan, the government plans to shift care from hospital to community and integrate neighbourhood health services. This long read examines the policy levers available to any government wishing to reform health and care services.

• Long read

Is the left shift mission impossible?

NHS Confederation -
This long read explores the current policy environment and spotlights the breadth of models and approaches shifting resources and funding flows closer to home. It defines the term 'left shift' as the shift of activity out of hospitals to those delivered closer to home – largely provided by primary or community services and wider system partners.

• Long read

A step towards change: members perspectives on government policies on children and young people’s mental health

Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition -
The establishment of a new government brought a renewed commitment to babies, children and young people’s mental health. The new government have made a series of commitments in relation to children and young people’s mental health and have pledged to raise the healthiest generation of children and achieve parity of esteem between physical and mental health. Members of the Coalition were surveyed in order to understand the impact of these new policies on the children and young people’s mental health landscape.

• Report
• Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition - publications

Report for the Thirlwall Inquiry: analysis of questionnaires from 120 NHS trusts

Nuffield Trust -
The Thirlwall Inquiry was set up to examine events at the Countess of Chester Hospital following the trial and subsequent convictions of Lucy Letby for the murder and attempted murder of babies at that hospital. This report was commissioned by the Thirlwall Inquiry. It summarises key themes from responses to a questionnaire sent by the Inquiry to all other NHS trusts with maternity and neonatal units in England.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - publications

Lessons learned: private finance for infrastructure

National Audit Office -
This report sets out a series of insights drawn from its back catalogue of reports and discussions with stakeholders across the public and private sectors, on the various models of private financing for public infrastructure projects. It contains twelve key considerations for decision-makers grouped under three headings: creating the right conditions to support investor and public confidence; making the right decisions at policy and project levels; and adopting a commercial strategy to deliver successful outcomes.

• Report
• National Audit Office - press release

Global trends in R&D 2025: progress in recapturing momentum in biopharma innovation

IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science -
This annual trend report assesses the trends in R&D funding, clinical trial activity, and new drug approvals and launches. It also examines the efficiency and productivity of clinical development, using a refreshed Clinical Project Productivity Index, while also providing insights on contributing factors and enablers. The continued significance of emerging biopharma companies and of geographical shifts in clinical trial activity are revisited throughout.

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State of ageing summary 2025

Centre for Ageing Better -
This report highlights the variations in the experiences of growing older across England with the difference in life expectancy for women in the richest and poorest areas now reaching an average of 3.7 years. It also reveals that older people living in local authority areas with the highest proportion of residents on low incomes are almost three times as likely to be disabled than those living in the areas of the country with the lowest proportions.

• Report
• Centre for Ageing Better - news