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National Voices works on a range of projects, short and long term, often commissioned or with dedicated funding. See below for a list of our current and historic projects.

Long Covid Project
The Long Covid project brought together six inequalities-focused organisations, who carried out individual pieces of work with different communities at risk of exclusion from Long Covid.
- COVID-19
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
National Voices’ Conference on ICSs
June 2022 saw our first ever Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) conference take place on the eve of ICSs becoming statutory bodies to debate a need for a different relationship with communities.
- Integrated care
- Person-centred care
- Lived experience
National Voices’ HSJ Takeover
In October 2022, National Voices ‘took over’ the Health Service Journal (HSJ) for a week, bringing new voices, experiences and opinions to its readers.
- Health inequalities
- Person-centred care
- Lived experience
NHS @ 75
We hosted a roundtable in May 2023 on what has worked well for patients and what could be improved as part of the NHS Assembly work to celebrate the NHS at 75.
- Lived experience
- Communication and administration
- Primary care
- Person-centred care
- Health inequalities
- Hospital waiting lists
Online Peer Support
In 2019, National Voices 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.
- Person-centred care
Our vision for improving patient experience of diagnosis
Our nine proposals for improving patient experience of diagnosis will significantly improve people’s experiences of not only diagnosis, but health and care more widely. The proposals are signed and supported by 58 health and care charities.
- Digital health and care
- Health inequalities
- Person-centred care
- Communication and administration
- Hospital waiting lists
Paper Works
The King’s Fund
We examined the experiences of people who have found administrative problems in the NHS have reduced their ability to access quality care.
- Communication and administration
- Health inequalities
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Our work explores how waits, delays and cancellations impact on people and their families, particularly those living with long term and multiple conditions.
- Hospital waiting lists
- Communication and administration
- Health inequalities
- COVID-19
- Lived experience
Primary Care Networks
Exploring how the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector can support Primary Care Networks to engage with their local population and focus on what matters most to individuals and communities.
- Primary care
- Person-centred care
Share for Better Care
The Share for Better Care campaign, launched by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Healthwatch England in collaboration with National Voices and a range of other excellent partners, aims to encourage everyone to give feedback on their experiences of care, particularly people more likely to experience poorer care and inequalities who are less likely to give their feedback.
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care