Health Inclusion and Equality

Thoughts on the White Paper detailing new legislative changes for the NHS

Mon, 15 February 2021

Dr Charlotte Augst

While welcoming the focus the government's White Paper could bring on integration, National Voices CEO Charlotte Augst warns 'the track record of achieving better, more equitable, outcomes for people on the basis of mergers and restructures of national bodies is pitiful'.

We need to talk about race

Thu, 11 February 2021

Dr Rebecca Steinfeld

Now could not be a more pressing time to discuss the issue of health inequity, the focus of our conference How Can We Dismantle Health Together - National Voices' conference to realise the power of the voluntary sector (Mar 2, 9, 16, 23). COVID-19 has made pre-existing health inequities starker, and generated fresh injustice. The stakes could not be higher, yet the barriers to change are also significant and complex - nowhere more so than in the area of racial inequality.

Building a youth-led movement in mental health

Tue, 26 February 2019

Ruby Waterworth

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

Ruby Waterworth of Youth Access shares how the ‘Our Minds Our Future’ campaign is giving young people a platform to call for better youth mental health support.

Death and dying: a cultural taboo?

Tue, 19 February 2019

Verena Hewat

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.

Peer advocacy in homeless health

Tue, 5 February 2019

Jenny McAteer

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.

Yes it’s a health issue: The role of charities in cracking the broader determinants of health

Mon, 25 June 2018

Hannah Chalmers

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

Embedding Co-production – The Hestia Approach

Fri, 28 April 2017

Hywel Sedgwick

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.

I’m worried about my Dad, because he’s well

Thu, 18 August 2016

Don Redding

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.