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Joining the Scottish health department weeks before the pandemic struck, Caroline Lamb found herself head of NHS Scotland within a year. She talks about the “intense and scary” experience of managing through the Covid crisis, her plans to integrate services and tackle staff shortages and why Scotland needs more money for health and care.

A growing army of academics and local leaders say thinking long-term and giving power to local people and staff is the key to saving the NHS and other struggling public services. But are our national politicians listening?

Will Patricia's Hewitt's review of English ICBs hand more power to local managers or end up strengthening ministers’ grip on the NHS? Rhys McKenzie makes MiP's case for a streamlined centre and real autonomy for local healthcare systems.

Meet Your Reps: As a manager and union rep, Rita Gupta wants to change people’s lives, not just tick boxes. She tells us about her determination to make a difference for patients and MiP members.

The social care shake-up in Scotland will affect the lives of more than a million people and could have far-reaching repercussions for local government and the NHS. But are the reforms missing the point?

Former receptionist Sam Allen has risen the hard way to some of the NHS’s most senior jobs. Now, the chief exec of the North-East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board wants to professionalise management and spread the collaborative spirit of mental health services acrosss the NHS.

MiP has called on Patricia Hewitt's review of ICS powers to strike the right balance between local autonomy and central direction, warning that many NHS managers will be suspicious of the ideological motives behind the review.

MiP members have given a cautious thumbs up to the transition to Integrated Care Boards, but a significant number are still in the dark about the how the reforms will affect their jobs, according to an MiP survey.

NHS bodies are now being asked to collaborate rather than compete. But top-down direction cannot foster genuine cooperation, West Yorkshire ICS chief Rob Webster tells MiP. Only through partnerships can health and care staff address the huge challenges they face.

NHS England set to announce that the launch of Integrated Care Boards and the abolition of CCGs will be delayed by three months until July next year.

At MiP's September webinar, two independent chairs of 'smaller' ICSs, Jenni Douglas-Todd from Dorset and Gill Morgan from Gloucestershire, spoke to MiP members about the challenges of change, recovering from Covid and reshaping services for the long-term.

Join us on Fri 17 September for an in-depth conversation on the ICS reforms with Dame Gill Morgan, chair of One Gloucestershire ICS, and Jenni Douglas-Todd, chair of the Dorset ICS. Find out more here.

Sheffield’s director of public health has become a local celebrity in a city whose innovative response to the pandemic has attracted national attention. Greg Fell talks about prevention, funding and finding the sweet spot between national and local leadership.

MiP is fully committed to supporting members through the ICS transtion in England. We answer some of the key questions you may have about the transition and how it will affect your job.

Managers welcome many proposals in the government’s NHS white paper, but poor timing, confusion over how the new system will work and vague threats of renewed political interference leave plenty of room for scepticism.

MiP has welcomed new government plans to speed up the devolution of health and care, and put England’s embryonic integrated care systems on a firm statutory footing.

MiP has welcomed new government plans to speed up the devolution of health and care, and put England’s embryonic integrated care systems on a firm statutory footing.

How Birmingham and Solihull united the whole health and care system around a common purpose: fighting the pandemic while keeping services running.

Caroline Clarke, chief exec of the Royal Free NHS trust – which has been at the forefront of the battle against infectious disease for nearly 200 years – tells Matt Ross how staff across the trust and the capital have mobilised to tackle coronavirus, and considers the thorny challenges ahead

I spent 40 years building health services for elderly people living at home – then my mum fell ill, and those services let her down. In the post COVID-19 world, we must plug the gaps between primary, community and social care provision