National Voices shares its Policy Priorities for 2025/26
- I statements
- Communication and administration
- Digital health and care
- Hospital waiting lists
- Health inequalities
- Integrated care
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care
- Primary care
National Voices’ Policy Priorities for 2025/2026
National Voices’ Policy Priorities for 2025/26 fall under the three overriding ambitions of our organisational five-year strategy: End unequal access; Transfer power to people and communities; and Shift the measures of success.
Underneath we have focused on 3-4 priorities that we are confident meet the needs of our members and reflect their most important priorities, but also recognise both current and future system priorities and our ability to make a real impact in these areas.
The priorities range from addressing basic barriers to access, like the lack of standardised interpretation and translation services, to driving wider culture change in the sector, by exploring how the “I Statements” can better used by ICBs. You can view the policy priorities in full here.
We have also detailed our successes to date in working with senior stakeholders in the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England on flagship policy projects, and laid out our planned next steps on these work strands.
Sharon Brennan, National Voices’ Director of Policy and External Affairs, said:
Our policy priorities are focused on ensuring equity of access to the NHS, especiallly during the expected turbulence of this upcoming year, where a system focus on cost reductions and elective care should not be achieved at the cost of widening health inequalities or the loss of patient voice.
In these challenging times we will continue to champion the role of lived experience and the need to work with people and communities as equal partners in fixing the future of our NHS.