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 view. Simon Stevens has published the NHS Five Year Forward View, a joint publication by NHS England, Public Health England and the regulators, but it has Stevens’ blueprint all over it after six months in the job. It’s a statement of intent from an organisation that still needs to convince the NHS (and perhaps itself) that it has a long-ter

In anticipation of the next Cambridge Health Network (CHN) event organised by ZPB for Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH), the OBH team give us an insight into the issues that will be discussed. There is a definite air of excitement in the OBH office this week as we gear up to the official launch of the contracting paper written in association with Capsticks: Contracting for outcomes: a value-based approach. As an organisation, everything we do is geared towards playing our part

Over 150 of the biggest names in the NHS and health sector gathered on Tuesday 9th September 2014 for a private meeting with Simon Stevens, CEO, NHS England at the CHN’s tenth anniversary event, organised by ZPB. What followed was a candid insight from Stevens and his audience of what the road ahead might look like for the NHS. Stevens talked us through his priorities and challenges at typically breakneck speed, whilst effortlessly using personal anecdotes to tell the story o

A brilliant blog report written by CHN’s writer-in-residence Richard Smith on the exclusive Tim Kelsey event we organised for the Cambridge Health Network on Monday has been covered in today’s British Medical Journal and Health Service Journal online. The story has also reached the editor’s blog of Health Policy Insight and Pritpal Tamber’s Optimising Clinical Knowledge blog. We’re delighted with the coverage, and the great feedback we’ve had on the event. See here for a twit

Last night saw the beginning of the exciting ZPB – CHN partnership, with the much anticipated exclusive Tim Kelsey event – “Making the NHS the best customer service in the world”. Over the course of the evening Tim, the new National Director for Patients and Information in the NHS, presented a “first look” into his proposed work programme, discussing his plans for increasing transparency, data and participation. His talk was followed by an extended Q&A session, with questions

ZPB have been working with The Cambridge Health Network (CHN) to build their new website. This is an important milestone for the CHN-ZPB partnership, and marks the start of the ‘new CHN’. Over the last eight years, CHN has organised more than 50 events, attracting over 120 speakers from around the world to talk to our select 1,000 members from across the public and private healthcare sector. CHN is now expanding to host a diverse range of events. Look out for our blog post to

There was lots of speculation as to whether Confed would be a damp squib this year, and rumours about poor attendance rates were rife. And yet we found the delegates to be more certain, focused and, dare we say, confident in the task they face. Last year we faced a daunted and shocked NHS manager. This year we saw a different beast. One who knew they had a huge mountain to climb, difficult decisions to make, and uncomfortable questions to answer, but who was more confident