Involvement

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.

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.

We all know how crucial evidence is to research. Over the last year Alzheimer’s Society has been considering the evidence surrounding how it involves people affected by dementia in research.

Federico Moscogiuri has an extensive history of working in the charity sector in the UK. In this blog, he talks about the importance of care planning and having control over care in an emergency.

Ewan King shares learnings from SCIE's recent briefing on how to grow small-scale, community-led innovations to improve people’s lives.

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.

Last week saw publication of the NHS Planning Guidance 2017–2019. The document is deeply technical in parts, and I’ve read the full 69 pages so that I can provide you with a brief summary of headline elements relating to person centred care and creating the ‘new relationship with people and communities’ set out in the Five Year Forward View

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.