Thought Leadership
In sectors as dynamic and challenging as Health and Social Care, no one has a monopoly on wisdom. Our experience, working with inspiring customers on difficult business problems, gives us a privileged view of the sectors that few others have.
This section has some of our latest thinking around how positive change can be made, and indeed how we are making it. This is the basis of our grounds for optimism in both sectors.
Below you can read our articles, written by our expert consultants and some of our customers, that might help you as you tackle some of the same problems we have.
For more details or to discuss anything you see here, please contact a member of the team.
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Co-production for innovation | it starts with relationships, not roadmaps
Co-production Week isn’t just a celebration of values, it’s a call to action for how we actually design and deliver change.
For innovation to take root in adult social care, it can’t be imposed from the top down or rolled out in isolation. It needs to be shaped by the people who live it every day. That means moving beyond consultation and into true co-production, built on trust, shared purpose, and honest relationships.
Why digital must be at the heart of Local Government Reform
As councils tackle Local Government Reform, rising demand, and tight budgets, digital and data must move from afterthought to engine for real change. At Channel 3, we’re working with local authorities and integrated care systems to put digital at the heart of new, preventative models of care, helping people live better, services work smarter, and communities stay connected.
Spending Review 2025: A defining moment for digital health and government
On the face of it, this week’s Spending Review (11 June 2025) delivers a clear message: digital transformation isn’t just a pillar of healthcare, it’s a priority across government, and it’s being backed with record levels of investment.
Fostering Fortnight: Supporting and Empowering Carers through Digital Solutions
Discover how digital solutions can empower foster carers, improve outcomes for children, and help councils deliver more responsive, sustainable care.
The Digital Blueprint: Cause for optimism in Social Care
Find out how our digital blueprint for social care leads to better outcomes for citizens, more time for staff and significant savings for councils.
Enterprise Architecture is your superpower. What is it, why do you need it and where do you start?
What is Enterprise Architecture, why do you need it and where do you start? If you want to better understand your organisation to make more effective decisions but don’t know where to start, one of the most useful things you can do is document your Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Long-Term Care: Unlocking Better Support Through Digital Innovation
In this piece, we focus on short term support — how digital solutions can improve the quality and effectiveness of short-term support, driving better outcomes for people receiving it.
Why Cyber Essentials is the ideal start to your Enterprise Architecture Journey
In our last Enterprise Architecture article we said identify a pressing issue that matters to senior stakeholders and demonstrate how EA can help resolve it.
What could be a more essential place to start than Cyber Essentials (CE) - all businesses should have it and it will accelerate your EA development.
How to start your EA journey – and the one (free) standard you need to use.
In this Enterprise Architecture article we focus on how you start: what is a good start looks like and the lessons we have learned to have the best possible start.
Enterprise Architecture. The most useful, most valuable, tool in a leader’s belt.
In this article, we look at how that EA decision-making superpower is achieved through practical application of knowledge management and why EA becomes so important, especially at the top table.
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