News from National Voices

National Voices AGM 2017 member discussions summary

Thu, 19 October 2017
Related documents: 
File Write-up of member discussions at AGM 2017
At this year’s Annual General Meeting, we held an interactive workshop on National Voices’ influencing strategy. Here is a summary of the key themes and recommendations from our members.

As a coalition of over 160 health and social care organisations, it is our members who determine the future of National Voices; who influence our strategy and ultimately decide where we focus our limited resources.

At this year’s Annual General Meeting, we held an interactive...

National Voices responds to CQC State of Care report

Tue, 10 October 2017

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its latest State of Care report assessing the overall standard of health and care services, and highlighting the...

Promises to give people control of their care are being broken, new research finds

Thu, 21 September 2017
Research by National Voices has assessed whether health and care services in England are delivering person-centred care.

Download 'Person-centred care in 2017' from the Publications section of the website.

New research concludes that, despite two decades of policy promises, NHS services still do not give people adequate control of their own health and care,...

National Voices Mentoring Scheme: Share your thoughts

Wed, 30 August 2017
We are looking to launch a mentoring scheme for our member organisations and want to hear your opinions.

As part of our role as a connector between our members, we are examining the feasibility of starting a mentoring scheme.

We would need a critical mass of both mentors and mentees from our member organisations to get started, and envisage a loose arrangement whereby we would make an...

National Voices to join new Empowering People and Communities Taskforce

Thu, 24 August 2017

Following National Voices’ efforts to push for the ‘new relationship with people and communities’ set out in the Five Year Forward View, National Voices has accepted an invitation to become a member of the new NHS England Empowering People and Communities Taskforce.

As...

Trustee election voting now open!

Tue, 15 August 2017
Related links: 
Registration for our Annual General Meeting on 28 September
Related documents: 
PDF icon Michael Candidate Statement
PDF icon Red Candidate Statement
PDF icon Sarah Candidate Statement
PDF icon Azizur Candidate Statement
Voting in our Trustee elections will run from 15 August to 19 September

Cast your vote 

You can read each candidate's statements by clicking on their name below.

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Brexit: what might it mean for patients?

Thu, 27 July 2017
Has your organisation thought about the potential impact of Brexit on patient care? Have you done any initial work on how patients might be affected? If so, we would like to hear from you…

As a founding member of the Brexit Health Alliance, National Voices urgently needs your case studies or written examples, of how your beneficiaries might be affected by EU...

Position statement: ‘Low-value’ prescriptions

Fri, 21 July 2017
NHS England has launched a public consultation aimed at restricting the prescribing of treatments and remedies that are judged to be of ‘low clinical value’. National Voices has expressed a number of concerns about the nature of this consultation process.

Today (21 July 2017) the Board of NHS England has approved the launch of a public consultation, which will result in statutory guidance to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), aimed at...

Nominations open for National Voices' Board of Trustees

Thu, 13 July 2017
Related documents: 
PDF icon Nomination Form
File Nomination Form (word doc)
Nominations open today and close on 10 August. Voting will run from 15 August to 19 September.

Nominations for two elected Trustees to join our Board are now open. The current Trustees are listed on our website; in line with our constitution, the Board is made up of a majority of elected Trustees from our...

Welcome focus on quality of adult social care

Wed, 12 July 2017
National Voices is one of 24 organisations supporting a new commitment to high-quality, person-centred adult social care. Quality Matters brings together national bodies, local government, care providers and the voluntary sector to agree a way forward to improve the quality of adult social care.

Commenting on publication of Quality Matters, Jeremy Taylor, chief executive of National Voices, the coalition of health and care charities, said:

Much of the social care debate is about access and funding.  These are vital, but quality matters too -

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