Acute Network
Practical support and a unified national voice for acute and ambulance trusts.
Exclusively for acute and ambulance trusts, we provide a unified national voice for providers and practical support through a time of operational and financial challenge.
Shaped by a member-led advisory board, we advocate for members, raising issues at the highest levels, championing achievements and working hand-in-glove to achieve goals. This includes supporting progress on:
- Tackling urgent and emergency care as a whole-system challenge
- Accelerating transformation and supporting service reconfiguration
- Maximising productivity and optimising patient flow in
- Enhancing patients’ choices
- Defining what bringing care closer to home means in reality
Why join?
Membership unlocks access to specialist forums for executives to connect and explore solutions to shared challenges.
This is in addition to:
- exclusive insights, resources and digital communities designed to help navigate complexity
- opportunities for direct engagement with government, parliament and national bodies.
Forums to connect, share and learn
Forums exclusively for Acute Network members
- Acute Advisory Board: closed forum by invite only for trust chief executives; meets quarterly.
- Urgent and Emergency Care Forum: anyone involved in UEC pathway redesign and operational delivery; meets quarterly.
- Ambulance Leaders Forum: ambulance leaders; meets quarterly.
Forums exclusively for NHS trusts and foundation trusts
- NHS Leaders Forum: chairs and chief executives from NHS trusts and foundation trusts; meets twice a year.
- Shared Leadership Forum for Chairs: chairs of acute, community, mental health and ambulance trusts in (or considering) shared leadership arrangements; meets quarterly.
- Company Secretaries Forum: for company/trust secretaries and directors of corporate affairs.
- NHS Chief Finance Officers and Commercial Leads Forum: for chief finance officers, directors of finance, and Commercial and business development leads.
- NHS Chief Operating Officers Forum: For chief operating officers, directors of operations and site operational directors.
Forums available to all members of The NHS Alliance
- NHS Leaders Forum (successor to NHS Providers’ Chairs and Chief Executives Network): chairs and chief executives from across NHS trusts, ICBs, community CICs and primary care collaboratives. Meets twice yearly with all system leaders invited. Meets twice yearly in sector-specific groups – e.g. NHS trust chairs and chief executives only.
- NHS Non-Executive Directors Forum: Non-executive directors from across NHS trusts and ICBs.
- NHS Workforce Leaders Forum: directors of HR, workforce and organisational development.
- NHS Digital Innovation Leaders Forum: digital and innovation leaders at board level across trusts and ICBs; digital primary care senior leaders; board-level non-statutory members providing NHS funded patient care. Meets quarterly.
- NHS Communications Forum: directors of communications and engagement across trusts, ICBs and other parts of the system; other senior communications leads. Meets quarterly.
- NHS Quality and Safety Forum: series of webinars for board level leaders on key issues relating to quality and safety.
- NHS Work and Health Forum: broad ICB membership including ICB work and health leads, strategy and workforce leads and chairs. Non-ICB membership includes NHS trusts, local/strategic authorities, DWP, VCSE and national colleagues Currently monthly.
- Neighbourhood Leads Forum: primary care, acute, community, mental health and ICB neighbourhood health leads who are responsible for making neighbourhood working a reality at place and system.
- Outpatient Reform Forum: NHS trusts, community trusts, primary care and neighbourhood ICB; anyone involved with outpatient pathway redesign. Meets quarterly.
- EDI Directors Forum: directors, associate directors and high-level strategic leads for EDI or health inequalities within NHS organisations
- NHS BME Leadership Network: black and minority ethnic leaders, aspiring leaders and allies from across the NHS. We convene network members through our three annual in-person events: our anti-racism conference in April, network lunch at NHS ConfedExpo in June and our Black History Month event in October.
- NHS LGBTQ+ Leadership Network: LGBTQ+ leaders, aspiring leaders and allies from across the NHS. We convene members every quarter via virtual meetings and annually for our in-person networking session at NHS ConfedExpo.
- NHS Women Leaders Network: women working at all levels across health and care. We convene members several times a year via mix of in-person and virtual events including our quarterly fireside chats, annual conference and International Women’s Day celebrations.
- NHS Disability Leadership Network: new network.
The Evolve Collaborative
For those looking to improve performance, we have partnered with data analytics experts Beamtree to establish The Evolve Collaborative , introducing an enhanced analytics and improvement subscription.
The Evolve Collaborative combines data tools with vibrant peer-led learning communities so organisations can identify opportunities for improvements that make a tangible difference for patients.