Publications

National Voices collaborates with partner organisations on publications relevant to the inclusion of patient, service user and carer voices in policy debate.

The following are available.

Developing Standards for Health and Social Care Records

Royal College of Physicians, December 2011

Foreword by Jeremy Taylor. This report is the output of a joint working group including National Voices and recommends a national standing committe to oversee the standards to which all patient records should be accredited.

Co-production in commissioning

With NHS Alliance and Turning Point, November 2011

Raising the Bar: driving co-production through clinical commissioning, reports on a workshop held by the NHS Alliance, Turning Point and National Voices to discuss new community-focused approaches to designing local services.

Good governance - long term conditions

Good Governance Institute, July 2011

National Voices helped to design this briefing for NHS commissioning group boards on how to assure themselves they are improving care for people with long term conditions.

Liberating the NHS: what might happen?

NHS Confederation, 2011

Liberating the NHS: what might happen? is the report of a health leaders' summit convened by the NHS Confederation in November 2010 to examine the implications of the government's White Paper for the NHS. National Voices chief executive Jeremy Taylor was a contributor.

Whose NHS is it anyway?

NHS Alliance, June 2010

Whose NHS is it anyway? Sharing the power with patients and the public, is a joint report by the NHS Alliance, National Voices, NAPP, NALM, PiF, Diabetes UK and AHP.

It calls for GP practices and commissioners to be more responsive to communities; for 'co-production' of services with their users; and for extending shared decision making.