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Understanding people’s needs and aspirations is essential to improve health and wellbeing and address health inequalities. The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector is a valued partner of the NHS and local councils within the new integrated care systems and plays a key role in local health and care services.

Quick access to stroke care makes all the difference to someone’s recovery – time is brain. Thrombectomy is a game-changing treatment for stroke, where a clot is physically removed from the brain. It saves brains, saves money and changes lives. But if a stroke is left too long, people can miss the window treatment entirely. Without addressing gaps in the stroke workforce – we won’t see access to stroke care speeding up.

Robyn Chappell, Lived Experience Advisor, reflects on her experience co-chairing the Expert Advisory Group for a project with CQC and the Point of Care Foundation, funded by the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, which is developing an engagement and health inequalities improvement framework for ICSs.

Understanding lived experience is crucial to improving care and tackling health inequalities. But how do we encourage everyone to share their experiences of care and what insights can we hope to gain?

To mark World Bipolar Day, I reflect on how my lived experience of a bipolar diagnosis has shaped my work as an NHS Peer Leader, a National Voices Lived Experience Partner, and a My Life Choices member, and I emphasise the importance of personalised care and strategic co-production.

There’s no denying that endometriosis care desperately needs to improve. With 1.5million women and those assigned female at birth living with endometriosis in the UK, it’s time for the Government to take bold and urgent action to support those with the disease.

As we embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, it’s crucial to examine both the opportunities and challenges it presents. At National Voices, we are exploring how AI implementation in the delivery of healthcare affects equality of access, experience, and outcomes.

Six months into a year long pilot programme delivering dental care to patients with severe multiple disadvantages (SMD) and/or homelessness, Community Dental Services CIC (CDS) has treated over 145 patients and has referred patients on for smoking cessation, drug misuse and alcohol services, also using the sessions to provide information around better oral health and prescribe high fluoride toothpaste at each visit.