Blogs

Whilst Integrated Care Systems only became legal entities in July 2022, more person-centred and co-ordinated care in England has been in development for over 50 years. One of the most common approaches to encourage health and social care professionals to work together over these decades has been multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs). This blog reflects on two virtual workshops held at the National Voices Integrated Care Systems (ICS) event in June 2022.

In this blog National Voices CEO Charlotte Augst and Director of Personalised Care at NHS England, James Sanderson share reflections on the new National Voices report Changing lives, changing places, changing systems: Making progress on social prescribing. The report sets out an agenda for action to ensure that NHS England’s investment in social prescribing delivers change for people, places and systems.

"Courage calls to courage everywhere and its voice cannot be denied."
Millicent Fawcett, suffragist 

Living in poverty can have a huge impact on every area of someone’s life. In January 2022 the national older people’s charity Independent Age released their new report Poverty in later life, exploring whether people past state pension age enter or exit poverty, and why.