Patient Leadership

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.

Today (14 March) sees the launch of the report of the Neurological Alliance's second patient experience survey. Sadly, it appears that across all measures, we are falling short.

You can view the report here.

The latest stage of NHS reform under the Five Year Forward View has created a classic Catch 22, says National Voices’ Director of Policy, Don Redding.

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’?

This is the thrid blog in our series of blog posts following World Mental Health Day, which was held on Saturday 10 October. This blog post has been written by Angela Newton, Deputy Director, Service User Involvement Directorate at Together for Mental Wellbeing. In this post Angela explores how national mental health charity, Together for Mental Wellbeing, supports people to tackle the challenges they face and take steps towards living the lives they want to lead.

Today the Integrated Care and Support Pioneers have their inaugural workshop.  Anya de longh will be talking to representatives from the pioneer areas about what personalisation really means from the perspective of someone living with several long term health conditions. Here, she shares her thoughts:

It is a real privilege to talk to the integration pioneers about personalisation and what that means to me, as someone who lives with several long term health conditions.