“When we talked about what was important to me I began to realise that I was feeling stuck and wanted to feel like I was achieving something. Working with a health and wellbeing support worker has given my life a better outlook. I am more confident, making plans for the future and making friends.” Victoria, […]
Dr Marie-Anne Essam is a GP in South Oxhey and is the social prescribing ambassador for the Herts and West Essex STP. Oxhey is an area of significant deprivation in South West Hertfordshire. She thinks social prescribing is the best thing to hit general practice in the last thirty years and here she tells her […]
The Trust Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust What did you do? We used the NHS staff survey and friends and family data to focus on the day-to-day basics that employees need to support their physical and psychological health. Employees identified that they valued having somewhere to go for a break, sufficient access to food […]
Following an event earlier this month which brought people together who have personal health budgets, Lived Experience Advisor, Sarah Woodhouse, explores the power of connecting people through stories and inspiring confidence in others to take the first step in ensuring they get the care that’s right for them. I recently walked away from an event […]
The Chief Nursing Officer for England backs a new campaign to get patients out of their pyjamas and up and out of bed: Many of you will have seen or heard about an article I wrote which was published in the Daily Telegraph in December. The focus of the piece was to highlight how nursing, […]
The NHS has an illustrious history of research and innovation. It has led to breakthroughs in prevention of ill-health, earlier diagnosis, more effective treatments, better outcomes, faster recovery, and played an essential role in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovation not only transforms patients’ lives but also brings significant benefits to the UK economy […]
In the last in our series of blogs marking Learning Disabilities Week 2015, Sarah Marsay, Public Engagement Account Manager in NHS England’s Patient and Public Participation and Insight Group, reflects on her experiences as a co-worker to ‘Joanne’, and the lessons she learned which can be applied to how health and care professionals provide support […]
The lasting effects of over exposure to the sun are being driven home this month (June), as part of NHS England’s Cover Up, Mate campaign. It’s a skin cancer prevention initiative, which targets people who work outside, including farmers, gardeners, and men in particular. Victor Vernier, (MBE) was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2002 after spending […]
Earlier this week NHS England marked 10 years of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) which, in 2018, supported more than one million people with their mental health. To mark 10 years of the programme, this joint blog gives the perspectives of a psychological therapist who joined IAPT in its early years, and a recovered […]
When I first trained as a clinician, my mental model was that my best opportunity to support my patients was to be as good as clinician as I could be, and to learn how to be the best team-player alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team. 15 years ago, I got my first exposure to […]