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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- 28 February 2019
Rhetoric and reality – that gap again
Jeremy Taylor
National Voices’ outgoing Chief Executive Jeremy Taylor looks back on how the health policy landscape has changed in the last decade and some of the challenges that lie ahead.
- Person-centred care
- Lived experience
- 26 February 2019
Building a youth-led movement in mental health
Ruby Waterworth
This is the fourth blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. View other blogs in the series. Ruby Waterworth, Engagement and Campaigns Officer at Youth Access shares how the ‘Our Minds Our Future’ campaign is giving young people a platform to call for better youth mental health support.
- Person-centred care
- 19 February 2019
Death and dying: a cultural taboo?
Verena Hewat
This is the third blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. Verena Hewat, Community Outreach and Training Lead at Compassion in Dying explains how they have been working with Portuguese-speaking communities in Lambeth to make end-of-life care more person-centred.
- Person-centred care
- Health inequalities
- 12 February 2019
Improving support and care for secondary breast cancer
Catherine Priestley
This is the second blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. Catherine Priestley, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Breast Cancer Care shares how a new toolkit is helping specialist nurses provide holistic support to people with secondary breast cancer.
- Person-centred care
- 5 February 2019
Peer advocacy in homeless health
Jenny McAteer
This blog is the first in a new series spotlighting how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. Jenny McAteer, National Development Manager at Groundswell shares how the organisation’s Homeless Health Peer Advocacy programme is helping people experiencing homelessness to receive coordinated and compassionate care that is tailored to them.
- Person-centred care
- 1 February 2019
Growing innovation in social care
Alex Fox and Ewan King
In this blog, Alex Fox, Chief Executive of Shared Lives Plus and Ewan King, Director of Business Development and Delivery at the Social Care Institute for Excellence discuss a growing network of innovators in social care.
- Person-centred care
- 28 January 2019
Focus less on systems and structures, more on relationships and trust
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive of National Voices responds to Quality Watch data that shows patients aren’t benefitting from integrated care.
- Person-centred care
- Integrated care