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Hospital redevelopment: Building tomorrow’s healthcare today

The Dash Review: Patient safety across the health and care landscape

Fit for the Future: The NHS 10 Year Health Plan for England

Future State Programme: The impact of data, digital and AI in healthcare

An overview of the NHS Urgent and Emergency Care plan 2025/26

NICE rejects groundbreaking Alzheimer’s drugs: What it means for the UK

Value in health: Improving productivity, quality and prevention in the NHS

CF recognised as a Top UK Consulting Firm in Healthcare and Strategy by Consultancy UK

A new era in Alzheimer’s diagnosis: What the FDA’s first approved blood test means for the UK

The cost of quick fixes: Aligning NHS capital investment with need

An overview of the NHS Model Integrated Care Board blueprint

European Health Data Space: The EU’s Digital Health Framework

CF launches regional headquarters in the Middle East

CF appoints Dr. Joud Abduljawad as Partner and Chief Medical Officer of the Middle East

NHS Performance Assessment Framework for 2025/26

Dementia trends: a declining incidence but a growing burden

2025/26 NHS Revenue finance and contracting guidance: Key updates

Obesity: a growing epidemic

Innovation Sans Frontières

CF named by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading management consultants for 2025

NHS England Neighbourhood Health Guidelines for 2025/26

NHS England new operating model for 2025/26

NHS England Priorities and Operational Guidance 2025/26

Reforming elective care: An overview of the NHS plan for change

Devolution and health: An overview of the 2024 English Devolution White Paper

CF recognised as a top Middle East consulting firm by Consultancy-me

DTOC 7 years on: Why we still need to talk about hospital discharge

Hannah Farrar named as a winner in the 2024 HealthInvestor Power List

Understanding the role of strategic commissioning for the NHS in 2024

Haseeb Ahmad joins CF as Life Sciences Board Advisor

What does the 2024 Budget mean for the NHS and Life Sciences?

Review of the CQC’s Single Assessment Framework and its implementation

Catherine Skilton joins CF as Managing Partner

Maximising healthcare outcomes through NHS-industry partnerships

Review into the operational effectiveness of the CQC

Paving a new pathway to prevention

Partnering for progress: a data-driven analysis of NHS-industry partnerships

The greatest challenges and opportunities in dementia

Achieving the 18-week standard for elective care

Health on the Line podcast – The 18-week challenge: getting elective care waiting times into shape

The growing impact of dementia and the importance of early diagnosis

Darzi Investigation of the NHS in England

Achieving the 18-week standard for elective care

CF shortlisted as Consultancy of the Year in the LaingBuisson 2024 awards

Investing in the Dementia Age

Improving market access of medicines in the UK – Our view in 2024

FDA Guidance: Using EHRs and Medical Claims Data to support drug and biological products regulation

The 2024 King’s Speech

What do the Conservative and Labour Manifestos for the 2024 election mean for health?

CF named as strategic consultants of the year at the 2024 HealthInvestor Awards

CF recognised as a top consulting firm by Consultancy.UK

CF announced as finalists in the MCA 2024 awards

The economic and healthcare cost of dementia

CF receives Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) Accreditation

Multiple Sclerosis in England

Improving translation of digital health technologies (DHTs) from academia

The unseen struggle: the invisibility of homelessness in NHS data

NHS England 2024/25 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance

Using AI, robotics and process automation to transform NHS patient pathways

England Rare Disease Action Plan 2024

Emerging trends in life sciences markets: The UK as an Innovation Hub

International Women’s Day 2024

CF named by the Financial Times as one of the 2024 UK’s leading management consultants

Productivity in Healthcare: In conversation with Siva Anandaciva, The King’s Fund

Wellcome Trust Report: Applying a novel approach to research projects

Wellcome Trust Report: Translating digital health technologies from academia into the NHS

The Challenge and Promise of UK Life Sciences

Snapshot: The ABPI’s Manifesto for Investment, Health and Growth

Wellcome Trust report: Sustainable translation of digital health technology

Supporting elective recovery by increasing theatre throughput

Tackling elective waits in the NHS

NHSE Guidance: Proactive care to provide care and support for people with moderate or severe frailty

Debating Pre-Election Healthcare: A conversation with CF

NHSE has developed a strategy to shape the future delivery of NHS vaccination services

Vernon Baxter joins CF as Health Investing Specialist

Driving NHS productivity through a clear community offer

Commercial Clinical Trials in the UK: The government’s full response to the review into clinical trials in the UK

How improved community data unlocks NHS efficiency

What will it take to transform Alzheimer’s with the new wave of medicines?

CF 10Tens: Framework to help guide conversations

Private Healthcare and the NHS: A Solution-Driven Approach for the Future

CF wins at the MCA Awards 2023

The link between non-acute investment and system productivity

How data is used to save lives in the NHS: A beginner’s guide

NHS: from competition to collaboration

UK Health System and Outcomes: International Peer Comparisons

The influence of NHS spending on economic growth

Scaling Innovation Within Healthcare Systems: Practical Considerations

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) strategic remit and priorities 2023 to 2024

Introducing Our New Life Sciences Advisor, Dr. Mel Walker

The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts released a report outlining the progress needed to improve NHS mental health services

The Approach to Obesity Management in the UK: A Review, Opportunities and Next Steps

The Department of Health and Social Care proposed a review of the 2023 Scheme to Control Cost of Branded Health Service Medicines

NHS Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Improvement Plan

Future forward for the NHS: Creating value through health systems, life sciences, data and digital

Opening our eyes to blind spots in NHS data: Understanding availability and quality of healthcare data for LGBTQ+ people in England

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan: June 2023

The Government’s 2023 Mandate to NHS England

Actionable Insights Health Inequalities Tool

Urgent and emergency care and the threat to ambulance services

Commercial Clinical Trials in the UK: the Lord O’Shaughnessy review

Finalists for five MCA 2023 Awards

10 Years of CF

ICS Roundtable 2.0

West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Podcast with CF

The Hewitt Review: An independent review of integrated care systems

Managing System Risk: the need to define and integrate clinical and operational risk to minimise patient harm

Case for Change Videocast

Virtual wards – why and how to make them a success

Using OPEL frameworks to drive system-wide operational improvement

NHS England releases delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services

‘The economic cost of ill health among the working-age population’

ICS Roundtable

Summary of ‘Accountability and Autonomy in the NHS in England’

Key points from ‘Guidance on developing the joint forward plan’

Snapshot of the NHS England 2023/24 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance

CF shortlisted for three awards at HSJ Partnership Awards 2023

Hannah Farrar, our Chief Executive, joins the MCA Board

What does the Autumn Statement mean for health and social care in England?

CF wins Project of the Year at the MCA Awards 2022

Potential impact of Teledermatology on NHS backlogs – The case for adoption

Health Inequalities Hackathon

Outcomes, integration, and deprivation in ICSs

The National Audit Office calls for more support to enable ICSs to succeed

Key findings of the analysis

Health spending and economic growth: cost or investment?

NHS England release new operating framework

Summary of the approach taken throughout the project

CodeYourFuture (CYF) Case Study

Employees enjoying Macmillan Coffee Morning

Macmillan Coffee Morning – September 2022

Bev Evans Panellist at Women in Consulting Networking Event and Panel Discussion

Ark Case Study

Statins are less likely to contribute to muscle pain than previously thought, with cardiovascular benefits outweighing muscle symptoms

Snapshot of guidance published on ICS working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector

Sir Chris Ham & Phil Livingstone: ICS Stocktake

First C of Four C’s in UX Design

A plan for digital health and social care

CF Summer Away Day 2022

Women’s Health Strategy

Guidance on the preparation of Integrated Care Strategies

Data Innovation team Lunch and learn

How does the NHS plan to achieve ‘Net Zero’?

Next steps for ICS system oversight

Pride month at CF

Creating a smaller and more focused NHS England is a welcome first step

Why should we be worried about the lack of capital funding for the NHS?

Planning, assuring and delivering service change: guidance and addendum

Health and Social Care Act 2022

Donna Hall & Phil Livingstone: Future of Integrated Care

Exploring the relationship between deprivation and integration in ICSs

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Amanda Pritchard’s 4 Rs on the challenges and opportunities for the NHS

Next steps for integrating primary care: Fuller Stocktake Report

CF supports new King’s Fund animation

Value-based agreements: the future of life sciences deals in the UK?

Lunch and Learn – Developing an Obesity Management Pathway

Shortlisted for six awards at the MCA Awards 2022

Challenges for today’s Mental Health Services

Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health

Creating Collaborative Opportunities for Life Sciences in NHS Integrated Care Systems

Considerations and requirements for implementing virtual wards

Unlocking the potential of integrated care systems

A summary of the Goldacre Review recommendations

What will it mean to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients?

CF - About us

Building analytical tools to support COVID-19 capacity planning in London

Data strategy for digital devices

Data enabled clinical trials

Shared intermediate care model for Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS

CF - Trusted research environments for beginners

CF / CLCH Partnership Through COVID-19

CF - Value-based agreements between life sciences and health systems

Covid-19 Elective Recovery and Restoration

CF - About us

Landscape review of the UKRI data research infrastructure

Identifying opportunities and understanding the benefits of pathway optimisation

The Vaccine Equalities Tool

PCN Planner Tool

Improving the cancer pathway from the impact of Covid-19

Covid Pandemic scenario planning software for London

CF receives bronze in the FT rating 2022

Governing the health and care system in England: creating the conditions for success

CF - Meet the team

Cultures of commitment

Delivery plan for tackling the covid-19 backlog of elective care

Real-time impact of Omicron in the new year: update

Trusted Research Environments (TREs) – A Guide for Beginners

CF Rapid analysis assessing the real-time impact of Omicron on the NHS over the holiday

Using Data, Digital and Tech to Transform the NHS: December 2021

The NHS must act on lessons from wartime to succeed in peacetime

Guidance on the development of place-based partnerships

Understanding and addressing ethnicity and mortality in hospital acitvity during Covid

The Leadership Learns Podcast interviews CF CEO

Guidance on finance and contracting arrangements for H2 2021/22

Operational and planning guidance: October 2021-March 2022

The road to cancer recovery

ICSs take control of finances and performance to break mould of health reform

HSJ Partnership awards 2021 Winners

Delivering on the promise of integration in health and care

Data Integration and Digital; “What Good Looks Like” framework

A single version of the truth: Data and analytics in an ICS

Disruption and recovery of cancer from COVID-19

Tackling the home first postcode lottery

Working together at scale: NHS guidance on provider collaboratives

What does NHS guidance say about Integrated Care Boards?

Citizen Intelligence

What does the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care say?

LGBT equity in health and care

Review of demand and capacity for hospital redevelopments

Getting it right first time

The impact of COVID-19 on cancer

A place for everything and everything in its place?

Perspectives on cancer and COVID

Recovering CVD from covid

Ten priority areas for 2022/23 set out in operational planning guidance

NICE international impact

A new era of collaboration for the NHS and LS industry

Next steps to Integrating Care

Of the people, for the people and by the people

A race for the covid-19 vaccine: a story of innovation and collaboration

CF - Data Innovation

Preparing for delivering the vaccine

CF - Experienced Hires

Collaboration, no time for an MOU, what can you do

Why the Oxford vaccine holds lessons for NHS leaders

Building a resilient system: Reflections and insights from health and care leaders

The NHS Long Term Plan

Restoring the cancer pathway

Primary Care activity has not returned to normal

Setting up NICE

“Place” is Where the Heart is

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on patients across the pathway

52 Perfect Weeks A Year

R&D investment in Life Sciences: Where are the gaps?

Post-Covid transition and transformation: where next for small hospital sites?

Health is wealth

COVID-19, digital adoption and primary care

Cancer post-COVID: impacts, outcomes and next steps

COVID-19: are we close to herd immunity?

COVID-19 response, exit, recovery and the future for healthcare and life sciences

CF - Consulting

If Capital is the answer, what is the question?

What does the forthcoming White Paper say?

Our 2020 Awards

2020 vision: what do we need to plan for now?

Using data to improve health

Supporting Primary Care Networks

State of innovation

Intermediate Care – why we should move to home-based care

More success for CF 2019

A Lost Decade – the data behind the report

What the NHS could learn from the WannaCry attack

Parity of esteem for Mental health

Pathology: ‘Collaborate where possible, centralise where necessary’

Information Governance – three myths debunked

CF shortlisted for five awards 2018

CF double winners at HSJ partnership awards

Change Management in the Public Sector Award Winner 2018

CF awarded Best Provider of Healthcare Analytics of the Year at HSJ Partnership Awards 2018

The Darzi Review Summary

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