Professor Judith Smith

Primary care professionals: interested in applying evidence-based approaches to innovation in your practice?

We can help! Join @hsmcentre.bsky.social for 'Rapid Reviews of Service Innovations in Primary Care: An Introduction & Step-by-Step Guide'

🗓️ 10 Sept
🎟️ birminghamhealthpartners.co.uk/events/

Stylised artwork featuring two yellow figures, one seeming to hold the otber up, surrounded by yellow stars

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor (1966-July 2023) (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art below created for the cover of her 1994 album 'Universal Mother'
#WomensArt

Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel: 22 Frauen jagen einem Ball hinterher und am Ende trifft Chloe Kelly und England gewinnt.

Yes, Lionesses. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!!

When you don’t know which #England sport to watch (we’re watching the #womenseuros however) #cricketcanwait

NHS management reform: regulation is just the beginning Regulation of managers now seems inevitable, but must be accompanied by wider changes focused on professionalising and supporting NHS leaders Calls to regulate NHS managers have been made for over 25...

DHSC has now published its proposals to regulate (or rather bar) #NHS managers. In this @bmj.com paper, @suziebailey.bsky.social @chrisham.bsky.social & I argue that regulation needs to be accompanied by wider changes to professionalise, train & support leaders:

www.bmj.com/content/389/...

NHS management reform: regulation is just the beginning Regulation of managers now seems inevitable, but must be accompanied by wider changes focused on professionalising and supporting NHS leaders Calls to regulate NHS managers have been made for over 25...

So sorry about that - try this one: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The NHS – a Suitable Case for Treatment? - Policy Exchange Download Publication Online Reader ‘The NHS – a Suitable Case for Treatment?’ makes the case that the NHS is not fit for purpose and is in urgent need of reform.The report finds that NHS performance r...

Policy exchange, backed by Sajid Javid, think we need to switch the NHS funding model to social insurance, and introduce new charges for NHS services, like to see a GP

policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...

These are not new ideas, but they are bad ideas

A thread with some evidence

Thank you @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a wonderful, thoughtful and celebratory graduation day

#Bordeaux is beautiful, and has wonderful public spaces and transport

Our Co-Director Judith Smith's recent blog about the NHS 10 year plan is worth a read!

The first of our great short guides to major improvement approaches, complementing our equally great open access Cambridge University Press elements series www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

It is as if the magpies who assembled the plan were so focussed on collecting bright shiny baubles to adorn the nest, they forgot to collect the construction materials to build the structure of the nest.

Excellent spot-on analysis of the #NHS Ten Year Plan in this thread by @policyskeptic.bsky.social 👇🏻

I went last week to the funeral of Penny Mullen who died in May aged 81. She was an academic at the Health Services Management Centre in Birmingham for many years, supervised my PhD, and was later a colleague. Uncompromising, irascible but absolutely dedicated to her students and her work. RIP.

NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

📣Read @profjudithsmith.bsky.social's (Birmingham School of @birminghamschool.bsky.social) new article in @theconversation.com where she explores what's in and what's missing from the eagerly awaited ten-year health plan for England

theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

Health research in England is grinding to a halt Wes Streeting, the UK health and social care secretary, announced in 2024 that “the NHS is broken” against a background of ballooning waiting lists, delays in disease detection, and reduced staff prod...

New comment piece by me & colleagues in @bmj.com on the using health data for research in UK

Processes are so complex and so slow now that less research is happening and we are wasting the enormous potential of the NHS to drive innovation

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A huge thank you to our speakers, chairs, delegates, partners and the event team for making this such a brilliant conference! Keep your eyes peeled for our series of follow-up blogs and upcoming researcher network opportunities! And we hope to see you all in Manchester in 2026!

Starmer, Cooper and King Charles mark 20th anniversary of 7/7 attacks PM says ‘those who tried to divide us failed’ while monarch says victims and stories of courage should be remembered

Today is the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on London on 7th July 2005, a terrible day on which 52 people were killed by four bombs on three tube trains and a bus. The King and Prime Minister Keir Starmer will lead national commemorations today

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

The mythbuster: Disdain for the ‘plumbers’ leaves the NHS knee deep in the brown stuff Disdain for management is crippling the NHS - undermining productivity, policy delivery, and the essential 'plumbing' behind effective healthcare systems

I wrote my latest HSJ Mythbuster column before the NHS 10-year plan was released but now I've read the plan the column accidentally summarises one of its major problems:
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

In case you missed it: my article for @uk.theconversation.com on theTen Year Health Plan for England. So many ideas (and some good ones at that) but precious little about how to implement them. #NHSPlan #FitForTheFuture #NHS #healthpolicy

theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

Mayor of Greater Manchester on X: "As part of the Government's new 10 Year Health Plan, Greater Manchester will become the UK's first Prevention Demonstrator. Building on our Live Well mission and a decade of partnership work, we will put practical support back into every neighbourhood across our city region. https://t.co/09wWeMupPq" / X As part of the Government's new 10 Year Health Plan, Greater Manchester will become the UK's first Prevention Demonstrator. Building on our Live Well mission and a decade of partnership work, we will put practical support back into every neighbourhood across our city region. https://t.co/09wWeMupPq

However there is one genuinely radical proposal in the Plan that could make neighbourhood health a reality also worth catching @mayorofgm.bsky.social recent @instituteforgov speech on this x.com/mayorofgm/st...

An excellent analysis… I’d add without properly investing in local government public health which commissions prevention services as well as adult and children’s social care especially reablement, aids & adaptations, domicilary care & supported living then much of the vision will remain just that1/2

My initial reflections for @uk.theconversation.com on #NHS Ten Year Health Plan👇🏻

Government’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England Familiar ambitions; familiar questions about delivery The Labour government published its 10 year health plan on 3 July1—a year after it entered office. Life expectancy in the UK has stalled,2 and public satisfaction with the NHS is the worst on record.3 The government’s prescription is for “r...

Writing for @bmj.com​‬ @hughalderwick.bsky.social​ says broad ambitions in the 10-Year Health Plan are right but have appeared in a long line of NHS plans over decades. So what will be different this time around?

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Recorded consultations are here to stay, but the current ad hoc approach leaves clinicians and patients vulnerable.

Clear guidance is necessary as recording of consultations becomes the norm, write @azeem-majeed.bsky.social and Waseem Jerjes
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Labour’s 10 Year Health Plan: familiar ideas could be frustrated by familiar problems | Institute for Government There is plenty of the what but less of the how in Wes Streeting’s new plan.

This really is a fine and thoughtful analysis of the NHS Ten-Year Plan by @nicholastimmins.bsky.social for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/nhs-...

NHS ten-year plan for England: what’s in it and what’s needed to make it work Ten-year NHS transformation hinges on funding and staff support.

My article for @uk.theconversation.com on theTen Year Health Plan. So many ideas, but precious little about how to implement them. #NHSPlan #FitForTheFuture #NHS #healthpolicy

@hpiandycowper.bsky.social
@chrisham.bsky.social
@shaunlintern.bsky.social

theconversation.com/nhs-ten-year...

PM launches new era for NHS with easier care in neighbourhoods The Prime Minister launches a new era for the NHS, bringing more easily accessible care closer to home.

Who could argue against a neighbourhood health service? But #socialcare reform is on an entirely different trajectory - a missed opportunity? NHC won’t work properly without it.

10 YEAR PLAN - TECH

The tech bits of the Plan are largely self-explanatory but are wildly ambitious beyond many people's credibility. It's a fine line.

To achieve it will need massive culture changes, funding that's permanently scarce, and some legislative efforts as well.

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