Professor Judith Smith

📢 NEW REPORT PUBLISHED 📢

#HSRUK research report exploring career experiences in HSR is now available. From contract precarity to mentoring, inclusion and tacit knowledge, this work shines a light on what shapes real careers in HSR and what needs to change.

Read it here ⬇️
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🌟 HSR UK is recruiting for new Trustees! We're looking for 3 new voluntary Trustees to help shape the future of HSR. If you care about improving NHS and social care services, we’d love to hear from you!

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Abstract submissions for #HSRUK26 are now being reviewed. Thank you to everyone who applied, we’ve been delighted by the volume and quality of submissions this year! Keep an eye on your inbox for outcomes.

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📣 Call for Workshop & L&D Session Abstracts! We’re seeking highly interactive workshops & learning sessions for #HSRUK26 Topics may include methods & methodology, PPI, researcher careers, networking and beyond

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Who Picks Up The Phone? Different Approaches To NHS Admin | The King's Fund Improving NHS admin isn't easy – but some solutions are surprisingly simple. Julia Cream looks at two real life examples of admin done differently.

Sometimes it’s the small things that make all the difference.

Julia Cream explores the different approaches to NHS admin, and why fixing admin requires the input from admin staff, as well as patients, to find a solution.

https://bit.ly/3L4LCai

Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor Exclusive: UK now an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader

Overseas health professionals increasingly see UK as ‘unwelcoming, racist’.

We need to change the narrative to welcome, value & support the 1 in 5 health & care staff born outside the UK.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📢 Abstract submissions for our 2026 Conference are open over the festive season! Take some time to submit your research and join us next summer to share findings & connect with peers shaping the future of HSR

Submit here ➡️ hsruk2026.org

Wishing all our followers a joyful winter break! ❄️

#HSRUK26

Thank you @policyskeptic.bsky.social for your reflections on our @hsmcentre.bsky.social & @thekingsfund.bsky.social paper on why NHS management matters so much. Hostility to management undermines a vital workforce, is short-sighted and plain wrong. @chrisham.bsky.social @suziebailey.bsky.social

Latest paper on locum doctors just out in Medical Education, on their involvement in CPD. In short, they miss out/are often excluded from learning opportunities, and its a problem. Lead author @janeferguson.bsky.social. Full paper at asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👋 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...

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.

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

The Hillsborough Law Podcast Episode · Law and Disorder · 01/11/2025 · 43m

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 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

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.

Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare Welcome to Cambridge Core

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...

Health Foundation NHS Productivity Commission Call for evidence Share your views on how productivity in the NHS can be improved over the next decade Deadline: Friday 12 December

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

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...

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...

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...

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👇🏻

This analysis of the #NHS #TenYearPlan in @bmj.com is spot on👇🏻

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👇🏻

SHAPE Involve and Engage A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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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Check out our latest BRACE Bulletin with news about our Centre and evaluations tinyurl.com/BRACE-Bullet...

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.”

It was a real thriller (and a very pleasant surprise) at #Edgbaston this evening!

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...

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...

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/...

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.