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Recently discharged Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Covid-19 patients often need support in their physical rehabilitation and in coping with the trauma of their experience. Christina Jones, Research Manager at ICUsteps explains the work they have been doing with recently discharged ICU patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this blog, Sean Phillips and Robert Ede from the Health and Social Care Unit at Policy Exchange explain how proposals from their new report, A Wait on Your Mind, could improve the experience of patients waiting for treatment, starting with a push to enhance patient communication through the NHS App to make it a front door for information and supportive services, including those offered by the voluntary sector.

Content warning: discussion of surgery, discrimination (specifically transphobia) and suicide. ‘Elective surgery’ is a term irrelevant to many people’s experiences. Few would argue that their surgical needs are a choice. For trans and non-binary communities, the term may be especially marginalising, and contribute to negative perceptions of those seeking gender-affirming healthcare.

It’s just over a week since we welcomed people to ‘Valuing Lived Experience – Learning with National Voices’.

Becky Haines, GP at Glenpark Medical Centre and GP Advisor for NHS Year of Care Partnerships, and Lindsay Oliver, National Director of NHS Year of Care Partnerships, explore whether the system is losing sight of long-term condition management, particularly in terms of proactive planned care, and share what we can do about this.

Miles Sibley from the Patient Experience Library argues that the government’s forthcoming Data Strategy for Health and Social Care needs to focus on the basic realities of person-centred care.

Most people will care at some point in their lives for a family member or a close friend who is older, chronically ill or is disabled and needs support, but don’t recognise themselves as unpaid carers.