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An overview of our evidence from our collaborative work across the health and VCSE sector on the topic of social prescribing. Here we explore and make recommendations on how to deliver the potential of NHS England’s significant investment into link worker roles and ultimately enable people and their communities to live well.

- Project
Living well in our communities: Progress on social prescribing
An overview of our evidence from our collaborative work across the health and VCSE sector on the topic of social prescribing. Here we explore and make recommendations on how to deliver the potential of NHS England’s significant investment into link worker roles and ultimately enable people and their communities to live well.
- Person-centred care
- Primary care
- Health inequalities
- Blog
- 7 November 2019
Your local pharmacy is changing.
This could mean better access to care close to where people live, work and shop, explains Stephen Fishwick, Head of Communications at the National Pharmacy Association.
- Primary care
- Blog
- 31 May 2023
The hidden cost: the cost of living crisis risks leaving people with diabetes storing up health problems for the future
Diabetes UK is seeing the impact that the cost of living crisis is having on people who are living with or who are at risk of diabetes. As well as being forced to cut back on essentials in ways which risk their health now, there’s a serious risk that people will be storing up health problems for years to come – and the NHS needs to be prepared for this.
- Health inequalities
- Publication
- 19 December 2016
Submission to the Treasury: Autumn Statement 2016 representation
There is growing evidence of an urgent need for more money for the health and care system. Trust deficits, growing waiting times and service reductions are some of the key signs that the system is overstretched and that this is having an adverse impact on patients and those who rely on services.
- Hospital waiting lists
- Person-centred care
- Primary care
- Blog
- 16 May 2023
Step by step: practical approaches to joining up the NHS and VCSE sector
A new King’s Fund report, ‘Actions to support partnership: Addressing barriers to working with the voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in integrated care systems’, aims to support leaders in statutory and VCSE organisations by identifying and testing approaches to facilitate more equal partnership working.
- Integrated care
- Blog
- 15 February 2021
Thoughts on the White Paper detailing new legislative changes for the NHS
While welcoming the focus the government’s White Paper could bring on integration, National Voices CEO Charlotte Augst warns ‘the track record of achieving better, more equitable, outcomes for people on the basis of mergers and restructures of national bodies is pitiful’.
- Communication and administration
- Lived experience
- Integrated care
- Blog
- 7 September 2022
The more the merrier (and wiser!)
As the new Integrated Care Systems get underway in difficult circumstances, Clare Woodford from Macmillan Cancer Support reflects on how National Voices membership has created opportunities to shape the rollout of the reforms.
- National Voices’ Conference on ICSs
- Integrated care
- Blog
- 22 September 2022
National Voices has never been more important
It is no surprise to me that National Voices has reached yet another impressive milestone, as we celebrate 200 members joining the community. National Voices provides an influential collaborative to bring about practical changes in support for millions of people across the country – never has this collaboration been more needed than now.
- Lived experience
- News
- 14 August 2023
Eight tests for success for the Major Conditions Strategy
National Voices, the leading coalition of health and social care charities in England, has laid out eight requirements the Major Conditions Strategy (MCS) must meet to ensure it is successfully developed and implemented.
- Integrated care
- Person-centred care
- Lived experience
- Health inequalities
- News
- 22 February 2023
Health and Wellbeing Alliance launch guidance on tackling health inequalities within NHS services with a digital component
Members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance have launched a new resource, ‘Tackling inequality and disadvantage: Key actions policy makers, commissioners and provider organisations can take when developing an approach with a digital component’.
- VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance
- Health inequalities
- Digital health and care