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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- 7 March 2023
How The Nest Southwest CIC support their community through the major life transitions
Hazel Acland
Hazel Acland, Founder and Co-Director of The Nest Southwest CIC, explores why International Women’s Day is important for their community. She highlights the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women whilst equally acknowledging the ongoing struggle for gender equality and the many challenges that women still face, discussing steps The Nest are taking to overcome stigma and shame surrounding menstruation.
- Lived experience
- 23 February 2023
Best for My Chest: an LGBT+ breast screening campaign, driven by community co-production
Stewart O'Callaghan (they/them)
Best for My Chest is an inclusive cancer screening campaign delivered by OUTpatients in partnership with the NHS North East London Cancer Alliance. By embracing co-production, it is able to bring something new to the cancer space for both patients and professionals.
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care
- 7 February 2023
National Ugly Mugs: Keeping sex workers safe
Rosie Hodsdon
If you were a victim of crime, what would you do? For many people, that answer might be going to the police, and placing their trust in our criminal justice system. They might reach out to their support networks, lean on friends and family, and hope that the harms they’ve faced will be righted. But what if the police refuse to help you?
- Health inequalities
- 26 January 2023
A whole family approach to parental mental illness
Dympna Cunnane
Our Time launches an online training course to support professionals in understanding how parental mental illness impacts children’s development, learning skills and strategies to help these young people.
- Lived experience
- 12 January 2023
Pulmonary embolism misdiagnosis
Helen Hughes
Last month Patient Safety Learning published an independent report written by risk expert Tim Edwards. The report highlights serious and widespread safety concerns around the misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes discusses how the charity is now working with Tim to raise awareness of his findings and to help improve pulmonary embolism outcomes.
- Communication and administration
- Lived experience
- 5 January 2023
Translated health information is essential to tackling health inequality
Sophie Randall and Dr Alice Wood
1 million people in the UK cannot speak English well. They have less ‘good’ health than English speakers. Yet translated health information is largely absent from strategies to tackle health inequality. NHS.uk and the NHS App are provided in English only. PIF’s new guidance on health information translation calls for a new approach.
- Communication and administration
- Health inequalities
- Digital health and care
- 8 December 2022
Knowing where to turn – peer research reveals the reality of accessing mental health support for people experiencing homelessness
Jo Brown
We know that mental health and homelessness are complexly linked, that’s why we worked with #HealthNow peers from across Newcastle, Birmingham and Greater Manchester to explore barriers to accessing mental healthcare for people who are homeless.
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- 30 November 2022
Measuring our health: The Health Index 2020
Emma Rourke
As the ONS publish their Health Index 2020, Deputy National Statistician Emma Rourke explores its findings and explains how the data is already helping shape local health provision.
- Communication and administration
- 24 November 2022
Caring Costs
Emily Holzhausen OBE
New research published by Carers UK for Carers Rights Day (24 Nov 2022) shows vast numbers of people new to caring, 12,000 a day, prompting a rethink of how we identify unpaid carers.
- Communication and administration
- 3 November 2022
Working in partnership to deliver integrated care
Karen Hallt
Understanding people’s needs and aspirations is essential to improve health and wellbeing and address health inequalities. The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector is a valued partner of the NHS and local councils within the new integrated care systems and plays a key role in local health and care services.
- Integrated care
- Lived experience