All articles by Matthew Taylor
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CommentThe neighbourhood health service risks becoming a conceptual muddle
The government’s ambition to establish a neighbourhood health service will fail to move from rhetoric to reality without a clearer clarity of purpose and measures for success, writes Matthew Taylor
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CommentFlawed league tables risk confusion and harm
A flawed approach to the government’s new league tables for trusts risks rewarding the wrong things, say the chief executives of NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation
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CommentStreeting should empower ICSs, not undermine them
Wes Streeting risks undermining integrated care systems, and Labour’s own promise not to restructure the NHS, if he seeks to manage elective recovery directly via trusts, says NHS Confederation CEO Matthew Taylor
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CommentNHS leaders are entering dangerous territory as election nears
Matthew Taylor explains how the NHS leaders face mounting pressure from the government’s productivity demands amid insufficient support and funding, risking short-term fixes over long-term solutions
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CommentCollaboration must not be pushed to the sidelines
NHS Confederation, the Health Foundation, and Q community unite to propel health and care systems towards impactful improvement, fostering collaboration, innovation, and peer learning across the UK, write co-authors Matthew Taylor and Penny Pereira
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CommentNHS tech needs to be about solving problems, not shiny solutions
We live in a fast-paced, digital age, and it is important that the NHS keeps up. Greater and improved use of technology can benefit the service by enabling the delivery of better quality and faster care to patients, as well as relieving pressures on leaders and their staff. Whilst there ...
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CommentThe NHS has warmed to Barclay, but his biggest test is to come
Matthew Taylor shares his insights on what the new reforms proposed by the Hewitt review will mean for the NHS and the population health outcomes
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CommentAction needed as A&Es overflow with patients in severe dental distress
NHS England must encourage those with dental expertise to join local systems, including by assisting ICSs with recruitment, so that institutional commissioning knowledge and experience are not lost when commissioning responsibilities are transferred, writes Matthew Taylor.
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CommentWhat the new NHS ‘operating framework’ must say
NHS England’s highly anticipated new operating framework — aka operating model — will empower integrated care systems with autonomy. Matthew Taylor lists down five crucial factors that would impact this transition
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CommentA licence to act for progressive primary care leaders
The Stocktake report, set out to understand how leaders can support better primary care integration, highlights a number of key issues hoped to be addressed through it. By Matthew Taylor
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CommentIs integration everyone’s problem but no one’s responsibility?
Matthew Taylor sets out five steps which could help bring together local responsibility for heath and social care.
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CommentScrapping discharge fund will give the NHS a dangerous capacity squeeze
Failure to extend the £600m April to September “discharge to assess” funding will bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients, write Chris Hopson and Matthew Taylor.
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Matthew Taylor: mind the gap
We need to close the social aspiration gap, says Matthew Taylor.