Health Inclusion and Equality

This is the third blog in a series on how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care. View other blogs in the series.

Verena Hewat, Community Outreach and Training Lead at Compassion in Dying explains how they have been working with Portuguese-speaking communities in Lambeth to make end-of-life care more person-centred.

This blog is the first in a new series spotlighting how National Voices members are enabling person-centred care.

Jenny McAteer, National Development Manager at Groundswell shares how the organisation’s Homeless Health Peer Advocacy programme is helping people experiencing homelessness to receive coordinated and compassionate care that is tailored to them.

What's the role of health charities in tackling the broader determinants of health? Hannah Chalmers explores on the blog.

Co-production has become the latest buzzword to capture the imagination of commissioners and health and social care providers, in their quest to provide genuine person centred support to the people they provide services for. Too often though, it has been reduced to being a simple rebranding of its predecessor, "user involvement", with no real or meaningful change taking place.

A quest to find, identify and manage differently the ‘top 2%’ of patients is increasingly occupying NHS managers. Don Redding, National Voices Director of Policty explores the consequences.

Andrew McDonald, chair of disability rights charity, Scope, blogs about improving communication with patients in the NHS.

Alex Phillips, Campaigns and Parliamentary Officer at Terrence Higgins Trust, writes about the review into the blood donations ban on former and current sex workers.

In this blog, Kate Martin, Director of Common Room describes how the Me first project is putting children and young people at the centre of the conversations about their health and healthcare.

The World Health Organisation has recently published a new definition of health literacy, describing it as ‘the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health’.  There are many things I like about this new version.