Bevan Commissioner Professor Don Berwick believes the principles of prudent healthcare provide the way for health and care in Wales to...

In this opinion piece, Dr Emily Warren offers her perspective on health and social care adapting to the ‘new normal’, recognising the...

Phil Routeledge explores whether the Prudent Healthcare principles remain relevant in the time of COVID-19

Dr Tom Downs considers the interdependency between personal and planetary health, as well as the implications for recovery after COVID-19.

Bevan Commissioner Louis Lillywhite explores the future of Covid-19

In this piece, Professor Kamila Hawthorne discusses how Covid 19 has impacted Primary Care.

We are reminded daily that working our way through and beyond the coronavirus pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s impact on every...

Author: Roy Noble Another day, another queue. It was a small one, I’m told, just outside a pharmacy in Aberdare. Over the weeks of Covid...

Author: Lesley Bethell, with the support of other Bevan Advocates. Now is the time to make the best use of all the resources available...

Author: Helen Howson, Director of the Bevan Commission ‘Once upon a time’ we would ---- ---- be up early to travel to work in cars, buses...

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, health and care services continue to function under unprecedented pressure. These trends are likely to...

Authors: Dame Sue Bailey and Andy Bell The Covid-19 global pandemic is a health emergency unlike any other we have experienced in our...

Author: Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff, Bevan Commissioner, Honorary Professor of Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University, Chair of...

I’d like to share with you a few very early findings from a rather special collaboration with Audit Wales (or Good Practice Wales as they...

The locked-down, sunny final weeks of April saw the Covid19 pandemic cause a wave of excessive deaths in care homes throughout the UK. No...

This article covers the impact on a number of organisations that I am involved with. I am fortunate enough to be able to carry on my...

Whilst it is clear that both the UK and Welsh Governments have made significant efforts to mitigate some of the economic impacts of...

Here I am in rural South East Wales preparing this paper. I live next door to the village church and I normally hear church bells and...

My request: During times of great stress on the NHS, I'm appealing to all those in senior leadership roles across Welsh Government, NHS...

The other evening, in our house, we broke the ‘stay at home’ isolation directive during this coronavirus pandemic. At eight o ‘clock we...

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have a long tradition of developing medicines and vaccines to treat and prevent...

As we deal with the uncertainties of the Coronavirus pandemic we hear the expression ‘’nothing will be the same’’. In the past, how often...

Bevan Advocate Barbara Chidgey explores the need for empathetic, inspirational leadership in order to deliver exceptional patient-centred...

It recently emerged that NHS England may be closer to getting rid of the four-hour A&E waiting time target by trialling new standards. A...

We hear from patient and Bevan Advocate, Barbara Chidgey, on what ‘patient-centred care’ means to her as an inadvertent ‘mystery shopper’...

Mike Simmons explains how his first-hand experience of using complexity science to reduce healthcare associated infection has led to...

Helen Howson responds to findings from the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust report on ‘Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in...

In this article, Bevan Exemplar and Trauma surgeon Oliver Blocker explains why the NHS needs to change to survive in the way it treats...

Wales has a challenge to address health inequalities – from cradle to the grave – and take action on the social determinants of health....

In this article, Bevan Advocate Sylvia Targett explains how medical professionals can proactively work with third sector organisations...

The latest academic evaluation of healthcare innovation projects in Wales has found a shift towards ambitious, long-term ideas rather...

This month, Digital Communities Wales is launching its new volunteering initiative and Bevan Exemplar project – Digital Companions. Marc...

Making radical changes in the way we plan and deliver services at all levels of the NHS is vital if it is to remain sustainable. Alison...

Dr Rowena Christmas describes how an informal peer-to-peer network of GPs in Wales could provide a template for increasing confidence and...

Quality improvement as a management approach has gained widespread currency within the NHS. But does it go far enough? Helen Howson...

Most agree that it is vitally important to find patient-led solutions for NHS problems. But how many sources of patient feedback are...

We hear from Mair Stephens on why the National Federation of Women’s Institutes-Wales, in partnership with the Bevan Commission, is...

Professor Sir Mansel Aylward reflects on the relationship between people and professionals in health and care, and how the pioneering...

The NHS in Wales is staffed with people who care but is often making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Politics and the media play...

Author: Professor Kamila Hawthorne MBE Professor Kamila Hawthorne MBE, is a Bevan Commissioner, Vice Chair (Professional Development) of...

Helen Howson, Director of the Bevan Commission, explains how a Prudent Healthcare approach has informed the Welsh Government’s long-term...