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What the politics of health and social care looks like a week after ‘social care reforms’ were pushed through

Fri, 17 September 2021
Charlotte Augst

In this blog, Charlotte Augst argues that the funding for social care via a rise in National Insurance only begs more questions

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Chronic Pain Report – A story of mixed emotions

Mon, 26 July 2021
Dr Asim Suleman

"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it." (Maimonides 1135 – 1204)

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Enhanced patient communication must be a central plank in the recovery of elective care

Thu, 22 July 2021
Sean Phillips, Research Fellow, Policy Exchange and Robert Ede, Head of Health and Social Care, Policy Exchange

In this blog, Sean Phillips and Robert Ede from the Health and Social Care Unit at Policy Exchange explain how proposals from their new report, A Wait on Your Mind, could improve the experience of patients waiting for treatment, starting with a push to enhance patient communication through the NHS App to make it a front door for information and supportive services, including those offered by the voluntary sector.

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How has the pandemic changed work for people with health conditions?

Wed, 30 June 2021
Amy McSweeney

New research by the Centre for Ageing Better and the Institute for Employment Studies highlights the challenges faced by employees with long-term health conditions, warning that more support is needed to help people manage their conditions in the workplace if the state pension age is to rise further. In this blog, Centre for Ageing Better Evidence Officer Amy McSweeney explains how the pandemic has widened the gap between supportive and unsupportive employers and what the government and employers must do in order to help people manage their health needs.

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Bringing waiting lists back to the people

Tue, 8 June 2021
Miles Sibley

Last year, we contributed to a National Voices report that looked into people's experiences of being on NHS waiting lists. People talked about a lack of control and an inability to "get on with one's life". Some described "fighting" the system, and described the sense of being in an information vacuum for long periods of time.

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Improving healthcare: is it time to ditch the terminology of 'shared decision making'?

Tue, 25 May 2021
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'.

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How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together? My experience of speaking at the National Voices' conference.

Fri, 12 March 2021
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.  

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Digital exclusion - bridging the gap

Thu, 11 March 2021
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

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Head in the clouds or feet on the ground?

Wed, 10 March 2021
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.

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How Can We Dismantle Health Inequity Together? My experience of speaking at the National Voices' conference.

Fri, 5 March 2021
Sandra Jayacodi

I was invited to speak at the Building Back Fairer: reframing the conversation around poverty and health conference today. I spoke about poverty and health inequities following my own experiences of failing to access care or manage my health due to stigma, culture, poverty and lack of confidence. Sir Michael Marmot spoke on ‘Why we need to build back Fairer’ and Jo Bibby spoke on ‘How to build back Fairer.’ My own understanding of poverty and health inequities just scratches the surface and every person has a different experience of health inequity, it is not a blanket term. 

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