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Health and Wellbeing Support Worker, Helen Jenkins, explains how a population health management approach helps her deliver personalised care to clients in Blackpool who need more than a ten minute GP appointment.

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, Engagement and Campaigns Officer at Youth Access shares how the ‘Our Minds Our Future’ campaign is giving young people a platform to call for better youth mental health support.

By its very nature, social prescribing is a mechanism meant to empower and enable. The main driver of the social prescribing link worker model is the acknowledgment that the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities are often dictated by a range of environmental and socio-economic factors. Social prescribing is all about holistic wellbeing and placing control of health with individuals, so they can save themselves. Social prescribing link workers play a critical role in helping to reduce inequalities.

In recognition of Sign Language Week, set up to commemorate the first time British Sign Language was acknowledged as a language on 18 March 2003, SignHealth highlights the importance of why we need to do more to achieve health equity for deaf people on its 20th anniversary.

In what is highly likely to be an election year, we at National Voices have launched our Manifesto for Equitable Healthcare. Sharon Brennan, Director of Policy and External Affairs discusses our manifesto asks in more detail.