Steve Black

One of the most respected leadership voices in American sports is the late Lou Holtz, who we lost in March. The legendary college football coach was known for turning struggling programs into championship teams.

Poor coordination, fragmented pathways, flawed system design and a reliance on adding more clinical staff as the solution to most problems continue to undermine NHS performance, improvement efforts, and patient outcomes

NHS England has once again made the wrong call on improving emergency care

NHS leaders overlook the fact that NHS budgets are finite and chase more funding instead of force multipliers. This leads to poor trade-offs, bottlenecks, and inefficient outcomes

The comparison between the NHS and other health systems is dominated by arguments over funding, which is a profound mistake

People do not follow titles for long. They follow credibility. They follow consistency. They follow leaders whose behavior makes trust possible. In an age when culture is tested daily, the enduring leadership principle is surprisingly simple: do your job, live your values, and give people something worth following.

Wes Streeting's claims about the NHS's A&E performance are incoherent and misleading

Hospital bailouts persist because many NHS trusts still fail to use patient-level costing data to properly understand and control costs

James Murray has unexpectedly found himself health secretary. What should he do now?

The story of the HS2 rail link exposes the cost of avoiding difficult tradeoffs. The NHS is experiencing the same failures, says Steve Black