Long Term Conditions

Healthcare in the 21^st century is changing: the NHS 'Five Year Forward View' shows that more than ever, people and communities need to be empowered to take control of their health, wellbeing and care. At today’s National Voices Annual Conference, Samantha Jones, the director of the new care models programme, reveals what it is doing to make this a reality.

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.

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.

Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, was recently described by the Guardian as ‘trickier to pin down than his predecessors’. Last week Mr Stevens met with National Voices members to discuss the future of the NHS and the role of voluntary organisations in health and care. So did we manage to ‘pin him down’?