Blogs

Best for My Chest: an LGBT+ breast screening campaign, driven by community co-production.

Thu, 23 February 2023

Stewart O'Callaghan (they/them)

Best for My Chest is an inclusive cancer screening campaign delivered by Live Through This in partnership with the NHS North East London Cancer Alliance. By embracing co-production, it is able to bring something new to the cancer space for both patients and professionals.

Tue, 7 February 2023

Rosie Hodsdon

What happens when you can’t trust the criminal justice system to protect you when you experience harm? In this blog, Rosie Hodsdon explains the vital role National Ugly Mugs plays in providing support to sex workers who experience harm as part of Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week.

Thu, 26 January 2023

Dympna Cunnane

Our Time launches an online training course to support professionals in understanding how parental mental illness impacts children’s development, learning skills and strategies to help these young people.

Thu, 12 January 2023

Helen Hughes

Last month Patient Safety Learning published an independent report written by risk expert Tim Edwards. The report highlights serious and widespread safety concerns around the misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism.

In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes discusses how the charity is now working with Tim to raise awareness of his findings and to help improve pulmonary embolism outcomes.

Thu, 5 January 2023

Sophie Randall and Dr Alice Wood

1 million people in the UK cannot speak English well. They have less ‘good’ health than English speakers. Yet translated health information is largely absent from strategies to tackle health inequality. NHS.uk and the NHS App are provided in English only. PIF’s new guidance on health information translation calls for a new approach.

Thu, 8 December 2022

Jo Brown

We know that mental health and homelessness are complexly linked, that’s why we worked with #HealthNow peers from across Newcastle, Birmingham and Greater Manchester to explore barriers to accessing mental healthcare for people who are homeless. We wanted to better understand the experiences of people who are homeless when they try to access mental health services and importantly, what people experiencing homelessness and mental ill health would like to see from mental health services going forward.

We believe it is crucial that people experiencing homelessness are central to developing the solutions to the issues that they face. This research was led by peer researchers who codesigned the research approach, conducted the fieldwork and shaped the analysis of the research findings.

Wed, 30 November 2022

Emma Rourke

As the ONS publish their Health Index 2020, Deputy National Statistician Emma Rourke explores its findings and explains how the data is already helping shape local health provision.

Thu, 24 November 2022

Emily Holzhausen OBE

Our new research published for Carers Rights Day (24 Nov 2022) shows vast numbers of people new to caring, 12,000 a day, prompting a rethink of how we identify unpaid carers.

Thu, 3 November 2022

Karen Hallt

Understanding people’s needs and aspirations is essential to improve health and wellbeing and address health inequalities. The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector is a valued partner of the NHS and local councils within the new integrated care systems and plays a key role in local health and care services.

Thu, 22 September 2022

Georgina Carr

It is no surprise to me that National Voices has reached yet another impressive milestone, as we celebrate 200 members joining the community. National Voices provides an influential collaborative to bring about practical changes in support for millions of people across the country – never has this collaboration been more needed than now.

Blogs

Best for My Chest: an LGBT+ breast screening campaign, driven by community co-production.

National Ugly Mugs: Keeping sex workers safe

A whole family approach to parental mental illness

Pulmonary embolism misdiagnosis

Translated health information is essential to tackling health inequality

Knowing where to turn – peer research reveals the reality of accessing mental health support for people experiencing homelessness

Measuring our health: The Health Index 2020

Caring Costs

Working in partnership to deliver integrated care

National Voices has never been more important

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