CHN goes to Leeds for ‘Innovation, Devolution, Perspiration’ 

We had a fantastic first ever CHN event in Leeds. We were joined by four outstanding speakers:

Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire

Ed Whiting, Chief Executive of Leeds City Council

​Marie Burnham, Chair …

Neighbourhood Health Care – it’s the future but not as we know it

In November we had a great session hearing how primary neighbourhood care has evolved within the Kaiser Permanente system in Northern California and equivalent plans for neighbourhood health here in the NHS. 

It was very helpful for a …

New Takes on Regulation

We had a fantastic event this week with Sam Roberts and Lawrence Tallon interviewing each other on stage. It was a fun and engaging approach and raised a number of questions/challenges about …

CHN Digital Identity Discussion & Summer Reception at McKinsey: In photos

Ming Tang of NHS England and Alexander Iosad of Tony Blair Institute for Global Change led a lively, stand up discussion on 'Digital Government, Digital NHS?' in July. This was followed by …

Private Capital for Technology Adoption

In May James O'Shaughnessy, Miles Scott and Sean Briggs led a discussion about the use of private capital to drive technology adoption in the NHS.

Our speakers highlighted there are multiple opportunities to …

Sideways Innovation: Unlocking Greater Efficiency and Productivity

On 26th March CHN went to Shoreditch to hear insights from William Vereker (Chair of Santander UK), Vin Diwakar (NHS England) and Professor Andy Hardy (UHCW) on the opportunities for the NHS …

Bringing Live Well to Life in Manchester

On 26th February we returned to Manchester for a second "CHN on tour" event. We enjoyed another packed house to hear and participate in a lively and optimistic discussion about LiveWell – …

Productivity: the Big Challenge

We kicked off 2025 in fine style meeting in BCG's offices where, despite a very large room, we still had people sitting around the edges! This was our lowest drop out rate …

Integrated Care: What can we learn from health systems around the world?

It was standing room only for our event last week, with fantastic speakers Professor Mark Britnell and Lawrence Hamilton on lessons from Integrated health systems globally.

With fascinating insights from speakers and experienced …

‘The Innovation Headache’

Tackling the topic of “The Innovation Headache”, innovators Peter Hames (Big Health UK) and Bay Gross (Cityblock Health) kicked off a discussion with CHN members around scaling in a entrepreneurial environment (not …