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Following Thérèse Coffey’s announcements regarding ‘Our Plan for Patients’, Charlotte Augst has written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, highlighting the importance of championing choice and personalisation throughout health and social care, recognising the need to move towards more joined up care, and to ensure that everyone receives communications from primary care services in a way that suits them.

This framework is aimed at local health and social care and community leaders and sets out six ‘ambitions’ – principles for how care for those nearing death should be delivered at local level.

In a letter signed by 110 member organisations, sent in August, National Voices congratulates the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on his appointment and outlines the burning topics members are keen to discuss and highlight.

This narrative describes what good quality integrated care looks like, from the point of view of anyone who needs access to multiple services over time.

National Voices submitted written evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry on Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems.

We were asked by NHS England and Improvement to explore the experience of waiting for care. We wanted to understand how waits, delays and cancellations impact on people and their families, particularly those living with long-term, multiple and chronic conditions.

Administration is a gatekeeper and enabler for quality care; when these processes go wrong, the effects go far beyond mere inconvenience.

Over the past two years, we have seen a rapid shift to digital healthcare and a shift within the voluntary sector to using digital support models. Carers’ experiences of remote care and support models: learning from the pandemic reflects on how these changes have impacted upon carers.