Event insights: Delivering the Red Tape Challenge
5 March 2026
Highlights from an NHS Confederation and NHS England webinar on how we can deliver the Red Tape Challenge recommendations.
Primary care
Chair
- Dr Sian Stanley, GP Clinical Director at Stort Valley and Villages PCN and Urgent and Emergency Care Strategic Lead for Herts and West Essex ICB
Speakers
- Professor Stella Vig, Deputy National Medical Director for Secondary Care
- Dr Kiren Collison, Deputy Medical Director for Primary Care, NHS England
- Dr Mark Simmonds, Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Dr Nick Boddy, GP and NIHR In-Practice Fellow, University of Nottingham
This webinar explored
- How to deliver the Red Tape Challenge recommendations.
- By exploring a real-world case study, this session showed how local teams can put these recommendations into action to:
- Strengthen culture and relationships across healthcare communities, enabling smoother, more collaborative interface working.
- Improve underpinning infrastructure and processes, reducing friction and administrative burden.
- Ensure more consistent, reliable healthcare delivery across organisational boundaries.
- Enhance customer service and patient experience by cutting unnecessary bureaucracy and enabling staff to focus on what matters most.