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Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite keynote - Sustainable care in health systems is never guaranteed. #OBHC2026

Prof Sue Dobson opening OBHC conference #OBHC2026

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 | Saïd Business School Organising sustainable health and care.

OBHC 2026 conference: safe travels to all those attending OBHC this coming week in Oxford. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

Currently - Licence to Hate - Racism on the Front Line - BBC Sounds The health workers facing racist abuse from their patients.

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Public Satisfaction With The NHS And Social Care In 2025 | BSA | The King's Fund This report explores public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2025. 26% of British adults were satisfied with how the NHS runs – a statistically significant 6 percentage point increase from...

Public Satisfaction With The NHS And Social Care In 2025 | BSA | The King's Fund
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Health Policy and Politics Network Spring Event. 28th April 2026 – 29th April 2026 at University of Manchester. estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

25th German Congress for Health Services Research "People, Relations, Organisations"- 23 to 25 September 2026, in Cologne. Call for papers: www.dkvf.de/en/

Integrated care systems in England: where next? Based on interviews with local leaders, our report explores the development and evolving role of ICSs in England, and the policy changes needed to help deliver their objectives.

Where next for integrated care systems?

Based on interviews with senior leaders across four ICSs, this new research explores the development of ICSs, their evolving role under Labour and the policy changes needed to deliver on national priorities.

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Integrated care systems in England: where next? |
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Women's health matters | LSE Health Annual Lecturehttps://www.lse.ac.uk/events/womens-health

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 | Saïd Business School Organising sustainable health and care.

SHOC offers bursaries to support attendance at OBHC conference (7-10 April). Aim: to assist PhD students, early career researchers, & scholars from Low- and Middle-Income Countries who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints. Details here: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

Join #LSEHealth & @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social for a lecture on health care reform in the Middle East🏥

📅 17 Feb, 6pm |📍 Fawcett House, LSE

LSE Health researchers Prof Alistair McGuire & George Wharton explore reforms in UAE & Saudi Arabia, drawing on PHSSR research.

Register: bit.ly/4ctfyIn

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 | Saïd Business School Organising sustainable health and care.

OBHC conference: remember that the early bird registration ends on 28 Feb (with last registration 23 March). Register now. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ... @cjpope.bsky.social

Substitution of nurses for physicians in the hospital setting for patient, process of care, and economic outcomes - Butler, M - 2026 | Cochrane Library Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

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Health spending could double in the next 50 years.

Our new long read explores what’s driving this rise and how we can create better health, not just treat illness.

👉 Read in full: https://bit.ly/3ZQNqr5

Seeking to appoint SHOC Deputy Chair: 2 year term to support the Chair. Role involves leading on strategic projects in consultation with Executive Committee. Candidates must be UK-based members of SHOC & have attended >2 OBHC conferences. Please email expressions of interest to r.kislov@mmu.ac.uk

Corporatisation of primary care: the need for critical analysis Across primary care, corporate actors are gaining influence,1,2 which reflects a broad corporatisation of health care: “the general trend throughout the healthcare industry towards higher levels of in...

Corporatisation of primary care: the need for critical analysis - The Lancet Primary Care www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Annual Conference

Organization Theory in Health Care Association (OTHC) conference, 24-26 June, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA (USA). Abstracts deadline 20 March. www.ot-hc.org/annual-confe...

US healthcare needs fixing, but there's no agreement on how to do it Is there the political will to fix the US health horror stories?

BBC News - US healthcare needs fixing, but there's no agreement on how to do it - BBC News
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National State of Patient Safety 2024: Prioritising improvement efforts in a system under stress In this second report on the global state of patient safety (the first was published in 2023), Norway is still number one in the ranking, with the UK 21st out of 38 OECD countries.

www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories/glob...

The promise and pitfalls of AI in health | LSHTM There has been considerable hype about the transformative potential of AI across many domains of society. Hetan will consider the promise and pitfalls of AI in health, and how we should think about

The promise and pitfalls of AI in health www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Meet our chair: Prof Slava Jankin, Professor of Data Science and Government at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, will be joining our forthcoming webinar💻exploring how capable AI is of influencing people & the consequences for society. Don’t miss out, register now➡️ acss.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...

TOMORROW | How can changes to NHS structures help deliver the 10 Year Health Plan?

📅 Tuesday 20 Jan, 12:30

Join us online with Dr Penelope Dash, Dame Patricia Hewitt, Samantha Jones, Johan Kahlström @novartis.bsky.social,
@njdavies.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/nhs-st...

Podcast 2025: the year in health policy and politics Jennifer Dixon with guests Hugh Alderwick and Rachel Sylvester Listen now

PODCAST: Is government rhetoric on reform matching reality?

@rachelsylvester.bsky.social and @hughalderwick.bsky.social join @jenniferthf.bsky.social to look back at 2025 in health policy and politics.

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Does (professional) leadership matter for staff satisfaction? Evidence from a panel study of hospital boards Grounded in human capital theory, this study explores whether the presence of professional leaders, such as doctors on hospital governing boards, positively influences the organizational workforce....

Full article: Does (professional) leadership matter for staff satisfaction? Evidence from a panel study of hospital boards www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reframing the evaluation of integrated care; examples from the NHS in England There is global interest in integrated care, often associated with how to improve system efficiency, strengthen clinical and cost-effectiveness, avoid…

Ling et al "Reframing the evaluation of integrated care; examples from the NHS in England" Health Policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increas...

Kessler et al "Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities" in Human Resource Management: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transforming Health Organization and Management: The Impact of Emerging Technologies, New Ways of Working, and Changing Boundaries The special issue will offer a grounded and balanced view of how emerging technologies can improve, but also complicate healthcare work.

Call for papers for special issue of Jnl of Health organization & Management: "Transforming Health Organization and Management: The Impact of Emerging Technologies, New Ways of Working, and Changing Boundaries" Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

How worried should the Government be about the NHS? The PAC is the latest to sound the alarm, comparing the Government's reforms to HS2. And there are signs that the public is growing impatient and not seeing improvements

How worried should the Government be about the NHS?
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