Blogs

Engaging with Healthwatch

Thu, 1 November 2018
Jess Brayne

Tips on how voluntary sector organisations can work with Healthwatch:

  • Have a local campaign you’d like to work with them on? Approach the regional managers to see if they can help get the word out.
     
  • Offering a service? Contact your local Healthwatch so they know to signpost to you.
     
  • Delve into all that data they collect: Healthwatch hears from over 400,000 people a year which means there is always more data than they can publish. But they are happy work with charities to provide access to their evidence and help build a shared understanding of specific issues. You can email research@healthwatch.co.uk with requests.
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Imagine this

Thu, 4 October 2018
Don Redding

Don Redding shows just how far away a universal offer of personalised care and support planning is for people with long term conditions.

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Involvement in decisions: the latest on general practice

Tue, 25 September 2018
Don Redding

With a new question in the General Practice Patient Survey on involvement in decisions, Don Redding compares how often shared decision making happens in general practice with other care environments.

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Where is the Green Paper? We need a new data-driven adult social care model.

Mon, 17 September 2018
Curtis-James Marshall

CJ Marshall shares why a data-driven approach could be key to supporting a more appropriate system of adult social care provision.

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Demystifying assessment and care planning

Wed, 12 September 2018
Jane Silvester

Jane Silvester shares why people who use social care services should be given care and support based on what they can already do, what they want to achieve and the help they need to live their lives in the way they want to.

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A just culture

Tue, 28 August 2018
Cicely Cunningham

The Learn Not Blame campaign is unique in its desire to bring together patients, families, doctors and all healthcare staff in calling for a revolution in how the NHS talks about and acts on harm. Cicely Cunningham shares why we need a just culture of learning, not of blame and persecution.

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Invisible power in healthcare reform

Thu, 16 August 2018
Hannah Chalmers

How can we harness the potential of invisible power to change culture within the health and care system?

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Stronger Together

Wed, 8 August 2018
Jess Brayne

Jess Brayne, Membership and Events Manager at National Voices, explains why we are at our strongest when our members are engaged in our work, and connected to one another.

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The government needs to fund, not fail seriously ill children

Mon, 30 July 2018
James Cooper

Together for Short Lives is calling on the government to get serious about proper funding for children’s palliative care.

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Brexit, health and care: time for some serious questions?

Thu, 12 July 2018
Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor lays out five questions we should ask about the impact of Brexit on people's health.

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