Tara Marshall

With just a week to go, anticipation is building for this year’s International Conference for Integrated Care in Birmingham, a full, four-day programme bringing together people from across the world who are shaping the future of care. I’m incredibly honoured to be speaking at the conference, and even more excited about the conversations that will happen around it. This is a space where ideas meet reality. Where we get to explore what neighbourhood care really looks like in practice, how we...

Soft signs are the things we almost miss. They live in the quiet spaces between our words. In the pauses. The glances. The subtle changes that don’t quite make sense but stay with us. They are the things we feel, before we can explain them. And often, that feeling is enough. Because soft signs tell us that something isn’t quite right. Noticing is not the problem Most of us notice. A sigh that feels heavier than usual, a slower step, a hesitation where there was confidence before. But the...

Coming home from the TSA 2026 conference with an award recognising our work is something we’re incredibly proud of, and to have it presented by Tanni Grey Thompson elevated it even higher. The Connected Care Programme has been a significant journey, not just in scale, but in what it represents for how health and care systems can truly work with a shared ambition. What makes this recognition so meaningful is the transformation behind it to recognise deterioration, communicate this using a...