THE REPORT

Ask How I Am: Supporting emotional health among people living with long-term conditions has been coproduced by National Voices and Centre for Mental Health, with support from a range of long-term conditions charities.

Mental and physical health are closely related. People who live with long-term physical conditions are twice as likely to have poor mental health as those who do not. It is highly likely that this has increased further during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this letter to the Prime Minister, Charlotte Augst outlines National Voices' recommendations on public health reforms.

We follow the publication of our report What We Know Now – a rapid response review of 11 National Voices members’ surveys, which gave us compelling insight into the experiences of people using health and care services during the first wave of COVID-19 drawn from over 66,000 responses – with What We Need Now, first-person testimony of the first wave that is equally as powerful.