Publications

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- 14 July 2022
Letter to Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee following contribution of oral evidence to the committee
On 28 June 2022, Sarah Sweeney gave oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee as part of their inquiry into the Future of General Practice.
- Health inequalities
- Primary care
- Communication and administration
- 23 June 2022
Changing lives, changing places, changing systems
Changing lives, changing places, changing systems – making progress on social prescribing, follows up on our 2020 report Rolling out social prescribing: Understanding the experience of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
- Living well in our communities: Progress on social prescribing
- Integrated care
- Person-centred care
- 26 May 2022
Valuing Lived Experience – Learning Report
Voices for Improvement is a National Voices project which seeks to strengthen collaboration between those with lived experience and decision-makers, in the service of improving health and social care.
- Voices for Improvement
- Lived experience
- 18 May 2022
National Voices call on Health Secretary to take urgent action on cost of living crisis
Today, during Prime Minister’s Questions, the benches of the House of Commons went silent during a debate about the cost of living crisis as the leader of the Labour Party shared Phoenix’s story – Phoenix is on kidney dialysis at home and is reliant on a dialysis machine to survive.
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- 14 May 2022
Behind the Headlines: the unequal impact of the cost of living crisis
We have gathered insight and intelligence from our members on what the cost of living crisis means for people living with health conditions.
- Behind the Headlines
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- 12 April 2022
National Voices’ response to the Covid Inquiry draft Terms of Reference
National Voices is committed to supporting the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, and we have outlined our response to the draft Terms of Reference in a letter to Inquiry Chair Baroness Hallett.
- COVID-19
- Health inequalities
- 22 March 2022
Shared statement marking the second anniversary of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown
23 March 2022 marks the second anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. Two years on, the government have just launched their ‘Living with Covid’ plan which involves lifting most of the protective measures put in place to help keep the virus from spreading.
- COVID-19
- Health inequalities
- 29 November 2021
National Voices’ Response to the NHSE/I CorePLUS5 consultation
National Voices welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed Core20PLUS5 approach.
- The Core20PLUS5 Community Connector Programme
- Health inequalities
- 17 November 2021
Timely access to care: Principles for recovery
Timely access to care is now the most pressing concern of people who live with health conditions, disability or impairment, and what they talk to National Voices members about. Delays, waits, service disruptions and cancellations are now so widespread that it can seem difficult to find areas of healthcare that aren’t affected.
- Timely Access to Care
- Hospital waiting lists
- Communication and administration
- Primary care
- Person-centred care
- Health inequalities
- 16 September 2021
National Voices’ Submission to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s inquiry into Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic
National Voices was asked by the Committee to respond to the inquiry on Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic, which aims to quantify the level of pent-up demand for key healthcare services, and to consider whether fundamental changes to the organisation and delivery of NHS services will be required to manage the backlog of cases caused by the pandemic.
- COVID-19
- Health inequalities
- Hospital waiting lists