Professor Judith Smith
@profjudithsmith.bsky.social
Professor of Health Policy and Management @unibirmingham.bsky.social @hsmcentre.bsky.social Co-Director @BRACE-evaluation.bsky.social Chair and Trustee of @hsruk.bsky.social and Trustee https://excathedra.co.uk/
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The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership.
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Why Management Matters To The NHS 10 Year Health Plan | The Kings Fund
Professor Judith Smith, Suzie Bailey and Professor Sir Chris Ham explore why strong, well-trained NHS management is essential to delivering the ambitions of the 10 Year Health Plan.
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Delighted to author this new report from @hsmcentre.bsky.social and @thekingsfund.bsky.social along with @suziebailey.bsky.social and @chrisham.bsky.social NHS management matters so much and needs professionalising, support and investment, not denigration.
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👋 We’ve been a little quiet… because we’ve been busy planning! We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for #HSRUK26 are OPEN 🎉If you’re working on health services research that deserves a national platform, now’s your moment!
🔗 Info & submission guidance here: hsruk.org/hsruk/events...
🔗 Info & submission guidance here: hsruk.org/hsruk/events...
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
👋 We’ve been a little quiet… because we’ve been busy planning! We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for #HSRUK26 are OPEN 🎉If you’re working on health services research that deserves a national platform, now’s your moment!
🔗 Info & submission guidance here: hsruk.org/hsruk/events...
🔗 Info & submission guidance here: hsruk.org/hsruk/events...
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The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership.
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Why Management Matters To The NHS 10 Year Health Plan | The Kings Fund
Professor Judith Smith, Suzie Bailey and Professor Sir Chris Ham explore why strong, well-trained NHS management is essential to delivering the ambitions of the 10 Year Health Plan.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership.
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
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If you’re wondering what the Public Office (Accountability) Bill aka #HillsboroughLaw means, listen to one of its architects explain: making state cover ups of failures harder through cultural change 👇🏻
@hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
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The Hillsborough Law
Podcast Episode · Law and Disorder · 01/11/2025 · 43m
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November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you’re wondering what the Public Office (Accountability) Bill aka #HillsboroughLaw means, listen to one of its architects explain: making state cover ups of failures harder through cultural change 👇🏻
@hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
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@hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social
@cbffjuk.bsky.social
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The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed if we invest in management.
Here are 5 reasons why strong, skilled management is critical to better care.
Full long read: https://bit.ly/437AuPW
@profjudithsmith.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social
Here are 5 reasons why strong, skilled management is critical to better care.
Full long read: https://bit.ly/437AuPW
@profjudithsmith.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed if we invest in management.
Here are 5 reasons why strong, skilled management is critical to better care.
Full long read: https://bit.ly/437AuPW
@profjudithsmith.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social
Here are 5 reasons why strong, skilled management is critical to better care.
Full long read: https://bit.ly/437AuPW
@profjudithsmith.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social
Delighted to author this new report from @hsmcentre.bsky.social and @thekingsfund.bsky.social along with @suziebailey.bsky.social and @chrisham.bsky.social NHS management matters so much and needs professionalising, support and investment, not denigration.
The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership.
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care.
Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW
Why Management Matters To The NHS 10 Year Health Plan | The Kings Fund
Professor Judith Smith, Suzie Bailey and Professor Sir Chris Ham explore why strong, well-trained NHS management is essential to delivering the ambitions of the 10 Year Health Plan.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Delighted to author this new report from @hsmcentre.bsky.social and @thekingsfund.bsky.social along with @suziebailey.bsky.social and @chrisham.bsky.social NHS management matters so much and needs professionalising, support and investment, not denigration.
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Want authoritative, critical overviews of major improvement approaches in healthcare? The @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk-edited Cambridge Elements series is free to access, and covers everything from culture change to statistical process control - & most recently, Lean. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Want authoritative, critical overviews of major improvement approaches in healthcare? The @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk-edited Cambridge Elements series is free to access, and covers everything from culture change to statistical process control - & most recently, Lean. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
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NOW OPEN: The #NHSProductivityCommission Call for Evidence is a chance for you to share your ideas about how productivity could be improved across hospital care, primary care, community care and mental health.
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
NOW OPEN: The #NHSProductivityCommission Call for Evidence is a chance for you to share your ideas about how productivity could be improved across hospital care, primary care, community care and mental health.
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
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Great piece with Mark Mardell on the Today programme about Turkish Airlines chucking him off a flight because of his Parkinson’s. Read the full grisly story here www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...
Redirecting...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Great piece with Mark Mardell on the Today programme about Turkish Airlines chucking him off a flight because of his Parkinson’s. Read the full grisly story here www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1...
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At @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge, we're looking for a talented early career researcher to support an exciting programme of work on innovation and improvement in healthcare. This is a great opportunity. Apply by 18 November www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Associate*/Research Assistant in Health Services Research [Maternity Cover] (Fixed Term)
Research Assistant - £33,002 - £35,608 Research Associate - £37,694 - £46,049 The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute) seeks a talented early career researcher to support an
www.cam.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
At @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge, we're looking for a talented early career researcher to support an exciting programme of work on innovation and improvement in healthcare. This is a great opportunity. Apply by 18 November www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...
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New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻
Writing for @bjgp.bsky.social colleagues focus on the 10-Year Health Plan's shift from hospital to community and consider its implications for general practice, drawing on existing evidence to explore the good, the bad and the potentially ugly.
Read more ⬇️
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From hospital to community? The good, the bad, and the ugly of the 10-year plan to move care to the community
Labour’s 10-year health plan for England, published on 3 July, set out three strategic shifts — from hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital. This editorial focuses on the first — shifting care from hospital to community — and considers its implications for ge...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻
Together with a set of ridiculously qualified colleagues, under the auspices of the BMJ, have contributed to this assessment of the Government's 10 Year Plan for the NHS. We conclude that we need greater clarity on the how and fewer priorities. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Delivering on the 10 year health plan for England
Members of the The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS consider the difficulties of implementing the health plan and what is needed for success
The 10 year health plan for England1 isn’t so much ...
www.bmj.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A beautiful sunset amidst very stormy weather here in the Scottish Borders.
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A beautiful sunset amidst very stormy weather here in the Scottish Borders.
New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻
Writing for @bjgp.bsky.social colleagues focus on the 10-Year Health Plan's shift from hospital to community and consider its implications for general practice, drawing on existing evidence to explore the good, the bad and the potentially ugly.
Read more ⬇️
Read more ⬇️
From hospital to community? The good, the bad, and the ugly of the 10-year plan to move care to the community
Labour’s 10-year health plan for England, published on 3 July, set out three strategic shifts — from hospital to community, sickness to prevention, and analogue to digital. This editorial focuses on the first — shifting care from hospital to community — and considers its implications for ge...
bjgp.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
New paper in @bjgp.bsky.social by @luisaptg.bsky.social @jaketreenotsea.bsky.social @hughalderwick.bsky.social and me, exploring the implications of the NHS Ten Year Plan ambition to shift care from hospital to community, and what it means for general practice👇🏻
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Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
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SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
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Check out our latest BRACE Bulletin with news about our Centre and evaluations tinyurl.com/BRACE-Bullet...
July 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Check out our latest BRACE Bulletin with news about our Centre and evaluations tinyurl.com/BRACE-Bullet...
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Latest research on public attitudes from me👇
“The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”
“The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”
🚘 NEW RESEARCH | What do people in Britain really want from transport? From safer streets to better buses, the public’s priorities are clear and they’re ready for change. Read our new research with @moreincommonuk.bsky.social ippr.org/articles/everyday-concerns-what-people-want-from-transport
August 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Latest research on public attitudes from me👇
“The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”
“The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”
It was a real thriller (and a very pleasant surprise) at #Edgbaston this evening!
The Hundred 2025 results: Liam Livingstone leads Birmingham Phoenix to thrilling win over Oval Invincibles
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/62560/
A fired-up Liam Livingstone brilliantly took down Rashid Khan to lead Birmingham Phoenix home in a thrilling and…
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/62560/
A fired-up Liam Livingstone brilliantly took down Rashid Khan to lead Birmingham Phoenix home in a thrilling and…
The Hundred 2025 results: Liam Livingstone leads Birmingham Phoenix to thrilling win over Oval Invincibles - United Kingdom News Beep
A fired-up Liam Livingstone brilliantly took down Rashid Khan to lead Birmingham Phoenix home in a thrilling and unlikely chase of 181 against defending
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August 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It was a real thriller (and a very pleasant surprise) at #Edgbaston this evening!
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NEW: There's much that the English NHS can learn from other countries' experience of shifting care from hospitals into communities.
Here @sjanereed.bsky.social sets out the lessons from what's been happening in Denmark and Ireland👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...
Here @sjanereed.bsky.social sets out the lessons from what's been happening in Denmark and Ireland👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...
Moving care out of hospital: what can England learn from other countries?
With the 10 Year Plan for England having a strong emphasis on shifting more care out of hospitals and into the community, over the past year we have been studying other health systems which have had t...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
NEW: There's much that the English NHS can learn from other countries' experience of shifting care from hospitals into communities.
Here @sjanereed.bsky.social sets out the lessons from what's been happening in Denmark and Ireland👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...
Here @sjanereed.bsky.social sets out the lessons from what's been happening in Denmark and Ireland👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mo...
Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...
Starmer’s NHS reforms thrown into chaos by ‘£1bn layoff bill’
Patients could be put at risk as the one-off cost of redundancies, estimated at between £600 million and £1 billion, puts staff and services in limbo
www.thetimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Will they never learn? Reorganisation of NHS structures and management rarely delivers expected benefits or savings, but instead caused ‘redisorganisation’, as @kieranwalshe.bsky.social David Hunter I wrote about for @bmj.com in 2001…. www.bmj.com/content/323/...
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Services for patients thrown into limbo include special educational needs, emergency planning, safeguarding services and Continuijg Healthcare - where the NHS provides community care for people with long term conditions like motor neurone disease.
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...
Starmer’s NHS reforms thrown into chaos by ‘£1bn layoff bill’
Patients could be put at risk as the one-off cost of redundancies, estimated at between £600 million and £1 billion, puts staff and services in limbo
www.thetimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Services for patients thrown into limbo include special educational needs, emergency planning, safeguarding services and Continuijg Healthcare - where the NHS provides community care for people with long term conditions like motor neurone disease.
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Do you have a track record of producing top quality research and policy analysis?
We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care. 👇
#ResearchJobs #ThinkTankJobs #recruiting
We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care. 👇
#ResearchJobs #ThinkTankJobs #recruiting
Senior Fellow (SF05/25)
We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Do you have a track record of producing top quality research and policy analysis?
We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care. 👇
#ResearchJobs #ThinkTankJobs #recruiting
We are looking to recruit a Senior Fellow to lead on projects across a range of topics within health and care. 👇
#ResearchJobs #ThinkTankJobs #recruiting
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We're looking for a Policy Fellow to join our team.
Focusing on NHS reform, you'll explore how the organisation of the NHS, regulation, payment systems and other policy levers can drive change, improve services and reduce health inequalities.
Apply by 23.00 on 20 August ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41oDgzb
Focusing on NHS reform, you'll explore how the organisation of the NHS, regulation, payment systems and other policy levers can drive change, improve services and reduce health inequalities.
Apply by 23.00 on 20 August ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41oDgzb
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We're looking for a Policy Fellow to join our team.
Focusing on NHS reform, you'll explore how the organisation of the NHS, regulation, payment systems and other policy levers can drive change, improve services and reduce health inequalities.
Apply by 23.00 on 20 August ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41oDgzb
Focusing on NHS reform, you'll explore how the organisation of the NHS, regulation, payment systems and other policy levers can drive change, improve services and reduce health inequalities.
Apply by 23.00 on 20 August ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41oDgzb
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Last week, we met with Pat McFadden MP and Abena Oppong-Asare MP, who lead the government’s response to the Covid Inquiry, to discuss progress on our recommendations.
Here is what has been done so far, and what still needs to happen:
www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/blog/from-gr...
Here is what has been done so far, and what still needs to happen:
www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/blog/from-gr...
From grief to justice, we’ve changed government policy. — Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK
After the devastation of the pandemic, every member of CBFFJ made a choice. We stood up and said: never again. And together, we’ve turned that grief into a fight for justice that has already changed t...
www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Last week, we met with Pat McFadden MP and Abena Oppong-Asare MP, who lead the government’s response to the Covid Inquiry, to discuss progress on our recommendations.
Here is what has been done so far, and what still needs to happen:
www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/blog/from-gr...
Here is what has been done so far, and what still needs to happen:
www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/blog/from-gr...
An excellent and pacy performance by #Illyria theatre company of Merry Wives of Windsor at #WinterbourneHouse and Gardens @unibirmingham.bsky.social this evening. Bravo all!
August 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
An excellent and pacy performance by #Illyria theatre company of Merry Wives of Windsor at #WinterbourneHouse and Gardens @unibirmingham.bsky.social this evening. Bravo all!