New Brazilian health scheme improves the health of one of the UK’s most deprived neighbourhoods
A new scheme, inspired by a successful long-standing health initiative in Brazil, is improving the health and wellbeing of residents of...
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Using insight to increase share of voice in a crowded market
CHS Healthcare (part of Acacium Group), partner with the NHS and social care to deliver innovative patient flow and pathway solutions...
Using national media to increase access to sexual health testing
Leading provider of remote sexual health testing, Preventx, wanted us to deliver a media campaign that would create awareness of a...
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5 ways to drive digital transformation across the NHS – ensuring improvement in patient outcomes
Digital transformation is a key element in transforming healthcare. Particularly where it can generate efficiencies and improved health...
How the NHS and industry can join forces with data to save lives
The NHS and industry are often "problematic partners". The relationship between both parties has often been challenging with the NHS a...
Five things the NHS and Industry must prioritise in executing the NHS’s data strategy
ZPB’s aim has always been to increase collaboration, accelerate innovation and transform healthcare. We don't believe any one sector or...
- May 9, 2017
- 1 min
Using data to measure quality in hospitals
ZPB’s COO Alex Kafetz spoke yesterday at The British Healthcare Business Intelligence Association’s annual conference about different...
- Jul 7, 2016
- 3 min
Caldicott 3 and the end of Care.data
By Alex Kafetz Dame Fiona Caldicott’s long awaited review into data security, consent and opt outs was published yesterday. As a member...
- Jun 29, 2016
- 4 min
Desist, declutter, decommission: making the best of NHS tech funding
By Alex Kafetz It’s no mean feat that the National Information Board has secured more than £4bn of funding to transform data, technology...
- May 12, 2016
- 2 min
The future of primary care? It’s already happening in Tower Hamlets
Those who attended the Cambridge Health Network’s Future of primary care event last night left inspired by the lessons from East London’s...
- Apr 29, 2016
- 2 min
Reflections of a newbie
By Deirdre Dinneen Next week we will be welcoming Maya Anaokar, our new account manager to the ZPB team, which means that I will no...
- Feb 23, 2016
- 2 min
Transforming Mental Healthcare in England
Flagged as the largest transformation of mental healthcare in a generation, pledging to help more than a million extra people, and...
- Feb 15, 2016
- 2 min
The simple answer to the question of how to market health brands
By Victoria Hatcher, Senior Account Manager. Many health brands offer a myriad of ‘solutions’ with so many permutations that there can be...
- Feb 12, 2016
- 1 min
NHS procurement easy wins
By Eanna O Lochlainn Making savings in the NHS doesn’t have to be painful. NHS procurement is an area one might find – to use a hackneyed...
- Dec 1, 2015
- 1 min
The sound of breaking glass….
NHS managers more than most, are subject to the travails of the law of the unintended consequence, and never more so than in the matter...
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Patient activation – why all the hype?
The largest UK digital health show, EHI Live, has been taking place in Birmingham over the last few days. With over 4,000 health care...
- Jul 24, 2015
- 3 min
‘How can social care evolve to support greater integration with health services?’
Social care can no longer be the handmaiden to the NHS. This was the clear message given at a feisty meeting of the Cambridge Health...
- Jul 13, 2015
- 4 min
Accessing the NHS for health tech SMEs
By Zoe Bedford There’s no money. The market is prone to political interference. There are sudden and often unclear changes in the...
- May 6, 2015
- 6 min
Keeping the NHS alive
By Richard Smith. Re-published from his BMJ blog with permission. The NHS has to change radically if it is to survive. All those who...
- Mar 26, 2015
- 3 min
Doctor level data needs more transparency
By Alex Kafetz It’s a sad day for the NHS’s transparency programme when the cardiothoracic surgeons want out. The Guardian reports that...
- Nov 13, 2014
- 3 min
Can the NHS land a robot on a comet?
By Alex Kafetz, ZPB Director Some would believe there is more chance of landing a robot probe on a comet than making the NHS digital, but...
- Nov 10, 2014
- 2 min
How to get your tech innovation adopted by the NHS
Anyone seen a revolution? According to the rhetoric from NHS leaders, there’s a revolution going on in health technology. But far from...
- Oct 23, 2014
- 2 min
Our thoughts on the NHS Five Year Forward View
By Alex Kafetz Over the years the NHS has been used to strategies, plans and even a couple of roadmaps, but today gets its first forward...
- Jan 28, 2014
- 3 min
NHS England needs to get into the hearts and minds of the NHS workforce to bring about digital revol
By Alex Kafetz Digitalisation, participation and transparency, realising cash savings that can be used to improve services at the...
- Jan 28, 2014
- 1 min
The information revolution hasn’t stopped care failings
The NHS is awash with information about hospital performance but it is not always translating into a safer acute care system for...
- Dec 12, 2013
- 1 min
How to make pathology reconfiguration work
ZPB’s Jennifer Nemeth discusses how the success of two trusts in the South West have changed the way they are delivering pathology...
- Nov 26, 2013
- 2 min
Culture and Breakfast (strategy wasn’t invited)
By Hilary Rowell, director, ZPB Last week, we held our first ZPB breakfast briefing. This brought together a select group of clients, and...
- Nov 12, 2013
- 2 min
Seizing the potential of partnerships
By Hilary Rowell, director, ZPB Today ZPB launches The Power of Partnership: how to seize the potential – the second in a series...
- Oct 24, 2013
- 2 min
Finishing what he helped to start
By Hilary Rowell, director, ZPB What a warm welcome Simon Stevens has received from the twitterati – so far. There’s still plenty of time...
- Oct 22, 2013
- 1 min
Data lessons from the education sector
ZPB’s Alex Kafetz discusses how the education sector has been far more open in providing access to data and open to new ideas compared to...
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