On the eve of our Care Closer to Home conference, we explore the urgent need to shift healthcare from hospitals to primary and community settings. Despite decades of ambition, acute priorities still dominate. In this episode we hear from Birmingham and Solihull ICB on the shifts they’ve been making in this area.

Joining Matthew in the conversation is Paul Sherriff, executive director of Birmingham and Solihull ICB; Richard Kirby, chief executive of Birmingham Community Healthcare and Ruth Rankine, Director of the NHS Confederations Primary Care Network.

Plus, our Leader in Six with Helen Ray, outgoing chief executive of North East Ambulance Service.

And read more in the following publications:

Beyond the waiting room: reimagining primary care for the next decade | NHS Confederation

The future of primary care | NHS Confederation

Find out more about becoming part of our primary care network here.

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Public satisfaction with the NHS is at an all-time low according to the latest data, but what can be done in the short term to improve matters while NHS leaders try to make long-term change? Rachel Power of the Patients Association* and Leonora Merry of the Nuffield Trust delve into the data with Matthew Taylor and suggest what can be done.

This episode’s Leader in Six is with Steve Williamson, chief executive of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

*The Patients Association's free helpline provides specialist information and guidance across all four UK nations to help service users make sense of health and social care. Call 0800 345 7115 weekdays 9:30am – 5:00pm, or email helpline@patients-association.org.uk

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