A Closer Look at the NHS 10-Year Plan: Will the New Plan Bridge the Gap Between Promise and Practice?
Education and Skills
Health
Training Tomorrow’s Doctors: What the UK Can Learn from the US
Spending Review - Digital Technologies and AI
Education and Skills
Health
Spending Review - Skills Investment Critical to Government's Ambitions
Health
Spending Review - Health
Education and Skills
Industry, Technology and Innovation
A “War-fighting Ready” Workforce? Tackling UK Defence Skills Shortages in the 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR)
Education and Skills
After the NAO Report: Securing the Future of T Levels
Industry, Technology and Innovation
The Defence Sector – Vital for National and Economic Security
Health
Certainty and Stability: Unlocking the Potential of Life Sciences in the UK’s Industrial Strategy
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Digital Technologies: The Heartbeat of an Industrial Strategy
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Advanced manufacturing: key to the Industrial Strategy and vital for growth
Education and Skills
Ofsted’s New Inspection Framework: Changes for Further Education?
Sustainability
Planning and Infrastructure Bill: silent on flood risk management
Health
Abolishing NHS England: What It Means for the Future of the NHS
Health
New GP Contract Deal: A Step Forward for Patient Access?
Health
Challenges in NHS dentistry remain severe despite Government's 700,000 additional urgent appointments
Sustainability
Health
The circular health revolution needs the workers onside
Sustainability
Bricks and Water: Make New Communities Flood-Resilient to Deliver Sustainable Growth
Education and Skills
Government Announces New Risk of NEET Indicator (RONI) Process
Education and Skills
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Education and Skills Critical to Delivery on AI Opportunities Action Plan
Health
Underregulated heating systems are a lethal risk to those indoors and out
Health
Reviewing the Government’s Plans to Tackle NHS Waiting List Backlogs
Education and Skills
Careers Guidance – Unlocking Potential to Fuel Economic Growth and Social Mobility
Industry, Technology and Innovation
A Skilled Manufacturing Sector - Delivering the Government’s Industrial Strategy
Health
Carbon Monoxide Safety: Why Winter Awareness is Critical
Sustainability
The National Wealth Fund – a Catalyst for Green Growth?
Policy Connect on the Budget
Education and Skills
Higher Education in the UK – Complex Policy Challenges for New Government
The Darzi Review: A Critical Examination of the NHS
Education and Skills
Skills England: A Transformative Change in England’s Skills Policymaking?
Sustainability
Reusable Packaging: A Crucial Piece of the Government's Zero Waste Puzzle
Assistive Technology
Assistive and Accessible Technology (ATech) and the New Government
New policy on housing standards must be coupled with improved practice to ensure good health
Sustainability
Unpacking the Government's Onshore Wind Plans
The devastating effects of carbon monoxide poisoning demand the incoming health secretary’s attention
Beyond Technocracy: Unpacking the Political Values in Skills Policy
Delivering an Ethical AI Future
Sustainability
Bricks and Water: taking bold action to overcome the risk to homes from drought and flooding
Sustainability
Reviewing Labour's plan for GB Energy
Health
Clean air and future Decent Homes
Health
Advancing Women's Health: Progress, Priorities, and Challenges
Policy Connect on the Budget
Education and Skills
Industry, Technology and Innovation
National Apprenticeship Week 2024
Health
A New Era in Healthcare: Pharmacy First Initiative Launches in England
Health
Addressing the hazy landscape of indoor air quality governance
Policy Connect on the Autumn Statement
Policy Connect on the King's Speech
Education and Skills
Student Engagement in the Digital Era
Education and Skills
Sustainability
Health
Policy Connect at Labour Party Conference
Education and Skills
Navigating the Crossroads: A Reflection of the Conservative Party Conference's Emphasis on Post-16 Education and Reforming Traditional Degrees
Assistive Technology
What will AI mean for people with dyslexia like me?
Industry led standards for web data collection
How can Parliament make health and care safer for all?
Black History Month 2022
Assistive Technology
This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, let’s keep pushing for digital inclusion for everyone
Sustainability
Levelling up and the net zero transition: a critical gap
Assistive Technology
Look ahead: what’s on the horizon for the ATech Policy Lab
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Devolving data offers a promising start - but more detail is required on the ambition of the Levelling Up White Paper
Education and Skills
Heavy lifting still required for the Levelling Up White Paper – Opportunities for the Further and Higher Education sectors
Assistive Technology
The ATech Policy Lab – a new venture in Assistive and Accessible Technology from Policy Connect, with supporting partners Bournemouth University and the Ace Centre
Health
Improving Cancer Survival: Time to take down the barriers stopping Community Pharmacy
Sustainability
The Heat and Buildings Strategy – building the future or hot air?
Sustainability
The role of parliamentarians in climate action, international climate agreements and COP26
Health
Time to face the facts – there can be no backlog recovery without a sustainable anaesthetic workforce
Sustainability
Lawmakers must think blue to go green
Health
The All Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group is supporting Project SHOUT’s Carbon Monoxide Awareness Day 2021
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Building back better for everyone: Policy Manager Eve Lugg reflects on data and artificial intelligence themes at the Conservative Party Conference
Health
"Work, care, equality, and security": our Head of Health reflects on her time at the Labour Party Conference
'People, Places and Public Services': an account of my time at the Labour Party Conference
Sustainability
Net zero, net zero, net zero!
Health
Providing better mental health service for all – our Head of Health speaks at a Labour Party Conference Fringe Event
Education and Skills
APGSCE event on Local Skills Improvement Plans
Assistive Technology
#WeThe15 is about breaking down barriers - assistive and accessible technology is part of that movement
Health
Removing competition from the English NHS: three starter questions
Assistive Technology
The National Disability Strategy: tech is the opportunity, collaboration its realisation.
Education and Skills
The Higher Education Commission responds to the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Review
Health
Why the Health and Care Bill must be fully scrutinised by MPs and Peers, from Lord Patel of Bradford
Sustainability
The England Trees Action Plan: to plant or protect? Government must do both
Assistive Technology
This Learning Disability Awareness Week, let’s celebrate digital inclusion to enable connection and creativity
Health
Getting it right for public protection – how can we reform healthcare professional regulation in the public interest?
Assistive Technology
Unlocking access to support with AI
Sustainability
Environmental principles and the future of environmental policy in the UK
Education and Skills
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Health
Patient choice – on a whim or real need?
Sustainability
Can we take the Government’s announcement to ban fossil fuel financing abroad at face value?
Sustainability
With the Energy White Paper, the government promises to be promising
Sustainability
What exactly is the UK’s 2030 emission target? The case for revisiting the 5th Carbon Budget
Sustainability
The Environment Bill returned but the question remains: will it deliver world-leading environmental protection as pledged?
Health
UK Malnutrition Awareness Week: Why it is important and even more so TODAY
Sustainability
Build Back Better - If not now, when?
Health
Face Masks become mandatory - how this measure may hold the key to kickstarting our economy
In Conversation with Clive Betts MP
How Policy Connect has been informing parliamentarians during COVID-19
Assistive Technology
Becoming Disability Confident - reflecting on previous policy for a more positive future
COVID-19: The implications of the pandemic on the UK energy sector
Industry, Technology and Innovation
In conversation with Darren Jones MP
Assistive Technology
Interview: Lilian Greenwood MP to take over from Seema Malhotra MP as Co-Chair of the APPGAT
Digital Accessibility in Higher and Further Education- the challenges and opportunities of 2020
Design and COVID-19: How the design sector is adjusting to the pressures of coronavirus
How can the National Strategy for Disabled People improve access to assistive technology?
COVID-19 and CO Gas - Staying safe at home during lockdown
Sustainability
Once the storm is over - how sustainable spending can look post covid-19
Sustainability
COVID-19 - How the pandemic is impacting the Waste & Resources sector
Assistive Technology
Remote working and disabled employees - How a pandemic brought a long-standing issue to the forefront of the conversation
Sustainability
Will the Climate Assembly work?
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Safer Internet Day - how the data industry needs to work together to ensure this is a priority
Ready for a new challenge – how supermarkets are pledging to go green
Why NHS targets may soon be a thing of the past
Is the Government finally waking up to our embarrassing plastic export problem?
Health
Carbon monoxide in the next Parliament
Assistive Technology
Accessible Employment - Why technology could be the key to more jobs for disabled people
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Manifesto Watch – What the parties are saying about data policy
Education and Skills
Renewing the interest in upskilling the UK’s youth
Sustainability
Working in policy during an election campaign - how is it done?
Health
Prevention and Health Inequalities
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Green Labour, Purple Liberals and Red Tories The evolution of party colour schemes
Education and Skills
Attainment and employment gaps between disabled and non-disabled students are still unacceptably high: the new government needs to work with universities and business to put in place practical steps to eliminate the gap
Sustainability
Let’s give householders better information about the flooding risk to their homes
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Go home, then go big – why all parties needs to focus on the local before they consider the national
Sustainability
Prioritising Plastic – What the next government can do
Education and Skills
EduSkills Blog: Let’s be positive about Further Education infrastructure
Industry, Technology and Innovation
Data and Technology Ethics Inquiry Education roundtable
Education and Skills
EduSkills Blog: Apprenticeships – Helping Young People at Risk?
Health
Examining the intrinsic link between homelessness and health
Health
Using videos to provide health information: how can we tap the benefits for patients?
Health
Can Sustainability and Transformation Plans deliver the change the NHS needs?
Health
Why the UK’s chronic shortage of doctors is only half the story
Health
Good nutrition and hydration: essential for patients - and for improving health and care
Sustainability
Is technology the answer to climate change?
Sustainability
Energy Efficiency in the Private Rented Sector: A Local Authority Perspective
Sustainability
Housing Standards in the Private Rented Sector: A Local Authority Perspective
Health
Revolutionising urgent care for older people means putting their needs and wishes first
Sustainability
We need a lorry-load of energy savings; in the new ECO the Government delivers a hatchback
Sustainability
Smart Meters – unlocking their social benefits for uses in assistive living and healthcare.
Health
Integrating physical and mental health – moving the agenda on from parity to equity
Sustainability
Energy efficiency v. Wellbeing
Sustainability
Managing Heat Decarbonisation
Sustainability
Energy Efficiency: Time to get out of reverse gear
Sustainability
Taking the heat out of domestic energy efficiency debate
Sustainability
Construction, a force for good – recruiting the next generation
Sustainability
How the housing crisis is driving the London mayoral race
Sustainability
The Circular Economy and the Built Environment
Sustainability
The Built Environment – integrated and interlinked
