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National Voices has appointed Helen Buckingham as its new Chair of Trustees

What We Know Now – what people with health and care needs experienced during the first wave of COVID-19

Today sees the launch of our Annual Report that officially covers the period up to 31 March 2020, but which cannot ignore the unprecedented health and care emergency that followed.

We have grave concerns about the manner, timing and apparent content of recent announcements on the future of Public Health England.

This week, Dr Rebecca Steinfeld joins National Voices as our new Head of Policy. Here she introduces herself by answering a few questions about family life during coronavirus and what she hopes to achieve together with the National Voices team, Board and members.

We wrote to National Voices members regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Below is the content of our letter.

In a collective response to NHS England’s update on the review of the 18 week target, patient and user groups* said:

Together with other leading alliances of charities and the Local Government Association, we are calling on the government to put funding back into communities.

National Voices has launched a Peer Support Hub – an online bank of high quality resources for people looking to measure, evaluate, sustain and grow different types of peer support.

People from across the health and care sector – including some of its most eminent figures – have delivered a sharp warning about the risks of a ‘no deal’ Brexit.