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More women are affected by dementia than men. Worldwide, women with dementia outnumber men 2 to 1. Here we discuss the science behind why this might be.

Lizzie Cain is part of Co-Production Collective, an open community based at UCL which exists to support co-production across research, policy and practice. Whatever our identity and experience, we work together in equal partnership to create better outcomes for everyone.

1 million people in the UK cannot speak English well. They have less ‘good’ health than English speakers. Yet translated health information is largely absent from strategies to tackle health inequality. NHS.uk and the NHS App are provided in English only. PIF’s new guidance on health information translation calls for a new approach.

On 15 September National Voices held a webinar in partnership with Mind, Get Up Set Up, NSUN, Bipolar UK and Together for Mental Wellbeing, to think about what has been learned about the provision of peer support through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog, National Voices Associate Kate Jopling reflects on some of the key themes.

Hello, my name is Clare. I’m incredibly proud to have been elected as a National Voices trustee. A little bit about me and what I stand for.

Joann Leeding, Head of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement at THIS Institute, writes about how THIS Institute uses collaboration to take themselves out of the academic bubble.

We’re all familiar with the rhetoric that diverse boards make better decisions. And most boards have made some sort of progress on gender diversity by now. But when we at National Voices took a good hard look at ourselves ahead of recruiting new trustees earlier this year, we realised that if we were serious about having a truly diverse board we needed to do something different. As the saying goes, ‘if you always do what you’ve always done; you’ll always get what you’ve always got’.