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REFERENCES
July/August 2026
Hamish Laing is Director of the Value-Based Health and Care (VBHC) Academy at Swansea University. The Academy delivers education programmes, conducts research, and provides consultancy services to the NHS, international health systems, and the life sciences industry. He argues that Value-Based Health Care is the best approach to addressing the challenges facing healthcare and creating sustainable systems that meet patients’ needs.
Full article here - https://flickread.com/edition/html/index.php?pdf=6a8d849090c67#28
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Institute of Fiscal Studies: Implications of NHS England Workforce Plan (2023) https://ifs.org.uk/publications/implications-nhs-workforce-plan
Mooney A, Alarilla A, Cavallaro F. Healthy life expectancy trends in the UK: a watershed moment. Health Foundation (2026). https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/healthy-life-expectancy-trends-in-the-uk-a-watershed-moment?
Office for National Statistics: Births in England and Wales (2025) https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2025
Identifying, measuring and reducing low-value care in the context of health system performance assessment: Report by the Expert Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment (2025) http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_food-safety/index_en.htm OECD. (2017). Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264266414-en
Jan/Feb 2026
Pandemic Response Needs Communities, Not Just Command and Control - Igor Shagalov and Leonid Polishchuk argue that the UK’s pandemic response was weakened by an overly centralised model that sidelined local knowledge and civil society input. Drawing on lessons from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry and evidence from care homes, they set out what public sector leaders can do now to integrate social capital as core pandemic resilience infrastructure - Read Article >
Sept/Oct 2025
Office of Health Economics - Simon Brassel, Senior Principal Economist and Helen Hayes, Associate Principal Economist at the Office of Health Economics propose that while a digital transformation holds promise, its implementation and wide-spread adoption must centre workforce needs, safe and functioning underlying infrastructure, and digital inclusion - https://flickread.com/edition/html/index.php?pdf=6900e79403bc5#32
Health Education England (2024). Understanding healthcare workers' confidence in AI: executive summary and report overview. Available at:
https://digital-transformation.hee.nhs.uk/building-a-digital-workforce/dart-ed/horizon-scanning/understanding-healthcare-workers-confidence-in-ai/executive-summary-and-report-overview
Imperial College London, Medical Centre (2023). Evaluating the uptake of the NHS App in England. Available at:
https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/medical-centre/2023/10/04/evaluating-the-uptake-of-the-nhs-app-in-england/
National Audit Office (2019). Digital transformation in the NHS. London: National Audit Office. Available at: https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-use-of-digital-technology-in-the-nhs/
NHS England (2025). 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme – Annex C: Guidance on best practice tariffs. Available at:https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/25-26-nhsps-annex-c-guidance-on-best-practice-tariffs/
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2025) OECD Artificial Intelligence Papers. OECD Publishing. Available at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-artificial-intelligence-papers_dee339a8-en.html
Parliament UK (2019). Health policy overview. Research Briefing CBP-7783. Available at: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7783/
The Health Foundation (2023). AI in health care: what do the public and NHS staff think? Available at: https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/ai-in-health-care-what-do-the-public-and-nhs-staff-think
The King’s Fund. (2024) Integrated care systems are making progress but will need greater local flexibility to realise potential. Available at: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/press-releases/integrated-care-systems-progress-greater-local-flexibility-realise-potential
UK Parliament, House of Commons Library. (no date). AI and healthcare research briefing. Available at: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8285156
BMJ Open (2020). Open access journal article. Available at:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/12/e031637
Sky News (2024). Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings – investigation reveals. Available at:
https://news.sky.com/story/doctors-are-using-unapproved-ai-software-to-record-patient-meetings-investigation-reveals-1338776
Further Reading
Dr Paty Paliokosta, Associate Professor in Special Educational Needs and Inclusion at Kingston University, and co-lead of the National SENCO Advocacy Network, argues that protecting both schools and the people within them depends on placing relationships - not results - at the centre of educational success - https://flickread.com/edition/html/index.php?pdf=6900e79403bc5#62
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/134632/html
www.gov.uk/government/news/more-support-for-neurodivergent-children-in-mainstream-schools
www.kingston.ac.uk/research/kingston-university-and-the-driver-youth-trust-kudyt-collaboration
https://pubhtml5.com/daayw/xvbq/Neurodiversity_Learning_Environment_Audit_3_%282%29/