Blogs

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has commissioned the People and Communities Board (PCB) to propose a concise set of high impact interventions, approaches or methodologies which would help create more person-centred, community focused health and care, as set out in the 'Six principles for engaging people and communities'. Jeremy Taylor, chair of the board, outlines how you can help.

The New Care Models Zone is one of four feature zones at this year’s Health and Care Innovation Expo. The zone explores the progress made by the 50 vanguards developing and testing new models of care that can be replicated across different health economies. Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive of National Voices, is also chairing an expert panel discussion on the ‘Future NHS Stage’ at Expo – ‘From new models of care to new cultures of care.’ In this blog he takes a look at how this might work in practice.  

As part of efforts to create a  ‘new relationship with people and communities’ as set out in the Five Year Forward View, the People and Communities Board, in partnership with the new models of care Vanguard Sites, developed six principles to help change these underlying behaviours and approaches.

“Strength in numbers”: an oft used phrase, but like many such clichés it has evolved to mean different things to different people. For me, as Chief Executive of Scleroderma & Raynaud's UK (SRUK), the only UK Charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with these debilitating autoimmune conditions, ‘strength in numbers’ has multiple meanings.