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Our blogs highlight the voices of people working across the health and social care sector, talking about a range of timely issues.

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- 23 April 2025
Learning to improve: Engaging with communities to tackle health inequalities
Tessa Fulton
National Voices’ Policy Manager, Tessa Fulton, shares her reflections on collaborating with ICSs to learn and improve how community engagement practices can meaningfully address health inequalities.
- A self assessment and improvement framework for integrated care systems
- Health inequalities
- 2 April 2025
Reflecting on National Voices’ Next Generation Network
Lucy Seymour
National Voices’ Senior Policy and External Affairs Officer, Lucy Seymour, reflects on what she has learnt from supporting the development of the Next Generation Network events series, through conversations with attendees and talks from sector thought leaders.
- National Voices’ Next Generation Network
- Lived experience
- Health inequalities
- 24 March 2025
Championing Inclusive Healthcare for LGBT+ Families
Matt Taylor-Roberts, Founder and CEO of Proud 2 b Parents
Proud 2 b Parents is committed to supporting LGBT+ parents, carers, and their children, ensuring they have access to inclusive and equitable healthcare. Despite progress, many health services still fail to address the unique needs of LGBT+ families. This blog surfaces the challenges our community faces, and what healthcare providers can do to make meaningful change.
- Health inequalities
- 17 March 2025
Adopting an orphan condition – Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Judith Potts, Founder and Trustee of Esme's Umbrella
Judith Potts, Founder and Trustee of Esme’s Umbrella, writes about Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS), its symptoms and the work of the organisation in raising awareness of and providing information about the condition.
- Person-centred care
- 5 March 2025
Inclusivity in clinical trials
Jacob Lant
National Voices’ Chief Executive, Jacob Lant, examines our work on improving inclusivity in clinical trials to help improve the outcome and the process for everyone.
- Our work increasing diversity in clinical trials
- Communication and administration
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care
- 27 February 2025
Share for Better Care Week: the importance of patient experience
Jacob Lant
This Share for Better Care Week, National Voices’ Chief Executive, Jacob Lant, explores why hearing from patients is so crucial in developing a full picture of health and care services.
- Share for Better Care
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care
- 18 February 2025
Why tackling NHS admin will help improve outcomes
Jacob Lant
Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices, reflects on new research published alongside The King’s Fund and Healthwatch England that demonstrates the importance of good admin to easing the burden on patients and unpaid carers.
- Paper Works
- Communication and administration
- Health inequalities
- Digital health and care
- Person-centred care
- 10 February 2025
AI in healthcare: Balancing progress with patient-led care
Louis Horsley
As we embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, it’s crucial to examine both the opportunities and challenges it presents. At National Voices, we are exploring how AI implementation in the delivery of healthcare affects equality of access, experience, and outcomes.
- Communication and administration
- Digital health and care
- Health inequalities
- Integrated care
- Person-centred care
- 9 January 2025
Do you know someone who deserves to be in the next New Years Honours List?
Jacob Lant, Nicola Perrin, Chief Executive of AMRC
By Nicola Perrin, Chief Executive of AMRC, and Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices. Both Nicola and Jacob are members of one of the Department of Health and Social Care’s committees responsible for making recommendations for the New Years Honours List.
- 27 November 2024
Share for Better Care: How people’s experiences drive regulation of care services
Jacob Lant, Chris Dzikiti, Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare at CQC
Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices, along with Chris Dzikiti, Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), write about the Share for Better Care campaign, reflecting on the importance of sharing experiences of care, especially for people experiencing health inequalities.
- Share for Better Care
- Health inequalities
- Lived experience
- Person-centred care