The NHS Benchmarking Network team joined colleagues at the Community Hospitals Association Conference in Swindon on 7–8 May 2026, sharing information about the Network and the benchmarking programmes available to members. It was a brilliant couple of days, full of energy, ideas and conversations about the future of community hospital healthcare. The plenary sessions and workshops sparked lots of discussion around integrated care, partnership working and the growing role of

The CVDPREVENT Audit is pleased to announce a new collaboration agreement with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), marking an important step forward in strengthening cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention across healthcare systems in England. This collaboration creates an opportunity for NICE and the CVDPREVENT delivery team to work together to draw on the strengths of their organisations and enhance the contribution that they each make for the bene

Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) are being asked to redesign services, reduce inequalities and deliver more care closer to home, all while responding to growing demand, workforce pressures and constrained resources. Many systems are still trying to make strategic decisions using fragmented datasets, disconnected reports and limited neighbourhood-level insight. Neighbourhood Indicators has been developed to change that. The tool transforms publicly available NHS and populatio