Blogs

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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- 30 April 2020
Putting older people in focus during COVID-19
Morgan Vine
As COVID-19 impacts all of our lives, everyone across the country is now getting used to a new normal. It’s changing the way we interact with others, our ability to work, maintain our health, and how we access food, care, and medical support. At Independent Age we hear from people in later life on a daily basis and we know that many were already facing significant challenges before the virus took hold of our country.
- COVID-19
- Health inequalities
- 5 March 2020
Travelling to dialysis – a way ahead?
Fiona Loud
Fiona Loud looks at how travel forms such a massive part of the patient experience.
- Health inequalities
- 3 March 2020
Voices for Improvement – How to get involved
Rachel Matthews
National Voices and the Q community are collaborating on a co-design project, supported by the Health Foundation, aimed at developing stronger mechanisms for connecting and supporting service users and patients involved in improvement. Over the next two months we are gathering information and ideas and we need your help.
- Voices for Improvement
- Lived experience
- 2 March 2020
Matters of size
Dr Charlotte Augst
Charlotte reflects this week on being Chief Executive of National Voices for one year.
- Health inequalities
- 6 February 2020
Getting it right on social prescribing
Dr Charlotte Augst
Charlotte Augst outlines National Voices’ new project which aims to ensure sector voices are heard as the roll-out of social prescribing moves forward.
- Online Peer Support
- Living well in our communities: Progress on social prescribing
- Person-centred care
- 30 January 2020
Making Innovation work for People- Surfacing Unmet Needs
Sarah Brooke
Our Project Manager, Sarah Brooke, talks about our Surfacing Unmet Need report for the Accelerated Access Collaborative.
- Surfacing Unmet Need
- Person-centred care
- 15 January 2020
Building partnerships for healthcare improvement
Joann Leeding
Joann Leeding, Head of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement at THIS Institute, writes about how THIS Institute uses collaboration to take themselves out of the academic bubble.
- 13 January 2020
Wealth and waste management – Introducing the Patient Partners Programme
Rachel Matthews
Rachel Matthews introduces our Patient Partners programme.
- Voices for Improvement
- Lived experience
- 23 December 2019
The end of the year
Dr Charlotte Augst
As we approach the new year, Charlotte takes a look back on 2019.
- 19 November 2019
Of hairnets and hard hats
Ahead of the General Election Charlotte Augst comments on how our politicians need to get serious not just on healthcare but actually on people’s health.