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Our blogs highlight the voices of people working across the health and social care sector, talking about a range of timely issues.

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- 25 May 2021
Improving healthcare: is it time to ditch the terminology of ‘shared decision making’?
Jo Dagustun
Decisions in healthcare are for the healthcare recipient to make, excepting limited scenarios set out in law. Yet most UK healthcare-related bodies persist in discussing service user decision making under the banner of “shared decision making”. AIMS campaigner Jo Dagustun asks if this is this helpful, or whether it’s now time to ditch the terminology of ‘shared decision making’.
- Person-centred care
- 12 March 2021
How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together? My experience of speaking at the National Voices’ conference.
Sanisha Wynter
I attended Day 2 of the virtual conference, Mobilising people to combat racial inequality: the power of voice. This topic matters to me as the disparity in statistics are stark and impact the engagement and feed into the culture of distrust minoritised communities may feel when accessing health services.
- How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- Lived experience
- Health inequalities
- 11 March 2021
Digital exclusion – bridging the gap
Savannah Fishel
Ahead of the digital exclusion day of our conference (Tues 16 Mar), National Voices Policy and Engagement Officer Savannah Fishel says the issue of digital exclusion goes far beyond trying to maintain contact with patients during the height of a pandemic, and cuts to the core of deepening health inequality More information, and how to register for our conference
- How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- Digital health and care
- Health inequalities
- COVID-19
- 10 March 2021
Head in the clouds or feet on the ground?
Miles Sibley
Miles Sibley from the Patient Experience Library argues that the government’s forthcoming Data Strategy for Health and Social Care needs to focus on the basic realities of person-centred care.
- Communication and administration
- Digital health and care
- 5 March 2021
How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together? My experience of speaking at the National Voices’ conference.
Sandra Jayacodi
I was invited to speak at the Building Back Fairer: reframing the conversation around poverty and health conference today.
- How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- 4 March 2021
Delivering Patient-centred Care: a perioperative care green paper
Lawrence Mudford
Have you ever wondered how healthcare policy is developed, and more importantly, just how you can invest your time, experience and insight into shaping change? That was my challenge as I started my new role as a patient representative, 18 months ago for the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC).
- Person-centred care
- 24 February 2021
Caught in a Maze
Clare Woodford
Clare Woodford, Senior Policy Advisor at Macmillan, highlights the findings of a new report showing that personalised, integrated care is essential for people with long-term health conditions, particularly during the pandemic, and as we plan our way out of it.
- Integrated care
- Person-centred care
- COVID-19
- Communication and administration
- 22 February 2021
Q&A with Prof Durka Dougall
Prof Durka Dougall
Dr Durka Dougall, Programme Director at The King’s Fund, will be speaking on day 4 of the National Voices’ conference, How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together? Ahead of her appearance in the conference, where we will look to the future, she has answered some questions about health inequity.
- How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- Health inequalities
- COVID-19
- Lived experience
- 18 February 2021
How our members are working together to dismantle health inequity
Jess Brayne
Over the last few months I have been leading on the organisation of member workshops for our upcoming conference, How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together?
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- 15 February 2021
Thoughts on the White Paper detailing new legislative changes for the NHS
Dr Charlotte Augst
While welcoming the focus the government’s White Paper could bring on integration, National Voices CEO Charlotte Augst warns ‘the track record of achieving better, more equitable, outcomes for people on the basis of mergers and restructures of national bodies is pitiful’.
- Communication and administration
- Lived experience
- Integrated care