News

In the face of wide-upheaval in the way the NHS is managed, National Voices has published its policy priorities for the next year showing how we will be helping the NHS to continue focusing on what matters most to our members and the people we advocate for.

In March, National Voices was invited to give evidence at a specially convened Health and Social Care Committee, following the news of the abolition of NHS England, and 50% running cost cuts to integrated care boards (ICBs).

After a years’ hard work behind the scenes, we are delighted to have secured an agreement with the Royal Mail to create a special new NHS barcode which will ensure NHS letters will be prioritised for delivery in times of service disruption, such as strikes or failure to meet delivery targets.

Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices, has responded to the news on disability benefit cuts.

Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices, responds to today’s announcement of a new contract for GPs agreed between the Government and BMA.

Jacob Lant, Chief Executive of National Voices responds to the announcement that Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England, will step down at the end of March.

This Share for Better Care Week (24 February – 2 March), Dr Ranj is teaming up with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Healthwatch England (HWE) to urge people across England to take three spare minutes to feed back on their recent health and social care experiences.

New research, published today alongside The King’s Fund and Healthwatch England shows that issues with NHS admin are widespread, and demonstrates the importance of good admin to easing the burden on patients and unpaid carers.

The Care Quality Commission, in partnership with National Voices and the Point of Care Foundation, and supported by the Regulators Pioneer Fund, has today published a self assessment and improvement framework for integrated care systems (ICSs) to address health inequalities through engagement with people and communities.

The testing phase of our draft improvement framework for ICSs, created in collaboration with CQC and the Point of Care Foundation, is now complete.