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 …

Going upstream: How do we engage with prevention?

We had an entertaining, insightful and provocative discussion on Tuesday evening at Deloitte, focused on improving health and preventing illness. 

Our speakers were Kevin Fenton, Regional Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities …

The Road to Recovery for Elective Care: summary in 10 points

Last week we had a great conversation about elective recovery led by Stella Vig and Julian Hartley. 

The conversation was wide ranging and covered ten areas which need to be improved/focused on:

Manage the …

Video: Reflections on 20 years of CHN

On 10 June 2024 more than 150 members gathered at Google HQ to celebrate 20 years of Cambridge Health Network (CHN), which held its first event on June 7th 2004 at the …

Celebrating 20 years of CHN

More than 150 members gathered at Google HQ to celebrate 20 years of Cambridge Health Network, which held its first event on June 7th 2004 at the Judge Business School in Cambridge. …

Implementing Digital First Across London

In April, we held a fantastic event led by Caroline Clarke, Regional Director for the NHS in London. 

Caroline was joined by Dominic Dodd, Chair of UCLPartners, Mat Shaw, CEO of Great Ormond …