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Working with a health and wellbeing support worker helped Victoria to better manage her condition. Now she’s more confident, is making friends and dreaming again

“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, […]

Social prescribing represents the most effective, wide reaching and life changing of all initiatives to date: a GP’s perspective

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 […]

Improving physical infrastructure

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 […]

Inspiring others through our stories of personal health budgets

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 ingredients for success: how to bake innovation into the NHS

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 […]

Being a co-worker to someone with learning disabilities taught me lessons we should all learn

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 […]

NHS to pilot potentially revolutionary blood test that detects more than 50 cancers

An innovative blood test that may spot more than 50 types of cancer will be piloted by the NHS in a world-leading programme, chief executive Sir Simon Stevens announced today. The Galleri blood test, developed by GRAIL, can detect early stage cancers through a simple blood test, and will be piloted with 165,000 patients in […]

Celebrating talking therapies at 10

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 […]