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Supporting a person in an unfamiliar place

Tue, 19 March 2019
Claire Daley

Claire Daley of Alzheimer’s Society talks about the simple ‘This is me’ resource that enables health and social care professionals to better understand who a person really is.

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Allies not adversaries

Tue, 12 March 2019
Sylvia Targett

Sylvia Targett talks about the vital role of advocates and how the NHS can better engage with the third sector.

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Rhetoric and reality - that gap again

Thu, 28 February 2019
Jeremy Taylor

National Voices' outgoing Chief Executive Jeremy Taylor looks back on how the health policy landscape has changed in the last decade and some of the challenges that lie ahead.

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Building a youth-led movement in mental health

Tue, 26 February 2019
Ruby Waterworth

This is the fourth blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. View other blogs in the series.

Ruby Waterworth of Youth Access shares how the ‘Our Minds Our Future’ campaign is giving young people a platform to call for better youth mental health support.

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Death and dying: a cultural taboo?

Tue, 19 February 2019
Verena Hewat

This is the third blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. View other blogs in the series.

Verena Hewat, Community Outreach and Training Lead at Compassion in Dying explains how they have been working with Portuguese-speaking communities in Lambeth to make end-of-life care more person-centred.

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Improving support and care for secondary breast cancer

Tue, 12 February 2019
Catherine Priestley

This is the second blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. View other blogs in the series.

Catherine Priestley, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Breast Cancer Care shares how a new toolkit is helping specialist nurses provide holistic support to people with secondary breast cancer.

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Peer advocacy in homeless health

Tue, 5 February 2019
Jenny McAteer

This blog is the first in a new series spotlighting how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care.

Jenny McAteer, National Development Manager at Groundswell shares how the organisation’s Homeless Health Peer Advocacy programme is helping people experiencing homelessness to receive coordinated and compassionate care that is tailored to them.

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Growing innovation in social care

Fri, 1 February 2019
Alex Fox, Chief Executive of Shared Lives Plus and Ewan King, Director of Business Development and Delivery at the Social Care Institute for Excellence

In this blog, Alex and Ewan discuss a growing network of innovators in social care.

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Focus less on systems and structures, more on relationships and trust

Mon, 28 January 2019
Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive of National Voices responds to Quality Watch data that shows patients aren't benefitting from integrated care.

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Prove it: part two

Thu, 10 January 2019
Don Redding

With the NHS Long Term Plan finally published, Don Redding checks whether it passes the five tests we set last month.

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