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- 1 March 2018
Submission to Health Select Committee Inquiry: STPs and integrated care
National Voices submitted written evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry on Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems.
- Integrated care
- 24 November 2017
Letter to NHS England on restricting access to services
The Autumn Budget 2017 did not deliver the funding increases that health and social care need. In subsequent statements, a number of NHS leaders have suggested the need for tough decisions about what can be afforded by and expected of the NHS.
- Health inequalities
- 16 November 2017
Letter to NICE regarding proposed changes to engagement in Health Technology Appraisals
National Voices, alongside 22 other organisations, has written to the chair of NICE, David Haslam, expressing concern about proposals to reduce the patient and clinician representation at Health technology Appraisal committee meetings, in the interests of efficiency.
- Digital health and care
- Lived experience
- 24 October 2017
Consultation response: ‘Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care’
This submission is in response to the NHS consultation on “Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care”.
- Primary care
- Health inequalities
- 13 October 2017
The role of pharmacy in supporting people with long term conditions
On 26 April 2017, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and National Voices held a joint event, attended by members of National Voices and people with lived experience of long-term conditions. The event explored the current role of pharmacy in delivering person-centred care to people with long-term conditions, and how this might evolve.
- Primary care
- Person-centred care
- 20 September 2017
Person-centred care in 2017
Policy makers have been aspiring to a ‘patient-centred NHS’ in England for at least 20 years. Person-centred care has become an increasingly prominent stated ambition both of national policy and local practice.
- Person-centred care
- Lived experience
- 27 July 2017
Member briefing: Brexit
Direct negotiations between the UK and the EU have started. The negotiators now meet for one week every month to work through a sequence of issues.
- Communication and administration
- 21 July 2017
Position statement: ‘Low-value’ prescriptions
The Board of NHS England has launched a public consultation, which will result in statutory guidance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), aimed at restricting the prescribing of treatments and remedies that are judged to be of ‘low clinical value’.
- Health inequalities
- 22 June 2017
Enabling change through communities of practice: Wellbeing Our Way
In June 2014, National Voices set out to explore and test how communities of practice could facilitate the spread of large-scale change across England’s voluntary sector working for health and wellbeing.
- Wellbeing Our Way
- Lived experience
- 25 May 2017
Healthy commissioning: How the Social Value Act is being used by Clinical Commissioning Groups
National Voices and Social Enterprise UK have conducted a survey of NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to assess their use of the Social Value Act.
- Communication and administration