There is a growing policy focus on how to empower and engage people and communities in their own health and care. The NHS Five Year Forward View talks about ‘harnessing the renewable energy’ of pat...
Chapter two of the NHS England Five Year Forward View starts by saying that the NHS has not yet ‘fully harnessed the renewable energy represented by patients and communities’ and then goes on to co...
This month, together with Nesta and our partners in the Realising the Value consortium, the Health Foundation has launched a set of practical resources to show how person- and community- centred ap...
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in Tokyo. Tokyo is an amazing city; it has wonderful sights, a fascinating history and culture and, interestingly, row after row of karaoke bars! But ...
There are a lot of problems in the NHS right now. And there are a lot of articles and blogs listing them one by one in all their glory. I’ve even written some of them. But this isn’t one of those b...
A recent BBC documentary, The boy who wanted his leg cut off, demonstrated the remarkable courage of a boy named Dillon. Dillon is 12 years old and has very severe Neurofibromatosis (NF1), a ra...
'What we know is that our current models for delivering long-term care aren’t sustainable. We can’t keep being paternalistic and wanting to fix everybody and expecting everybody to just comply with...
A lot can change in a year. I wrote this blog almost a year ago. I’d just attended a conference on person-centred care at the King’s Fund and was inspired by the discussions on the importance of...
Dr Katie Coleman, a GP and Vice-Chair of Islington CCG and RCGP Clinical Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning, explains how we need to capitalise on the enthusiasm of patients, serv...
The election threw up some surprises didn’t it? One was the remarkable consensus over the crisis facing the NHS: a potential £30bn funding gap by then end of the decade. How is this to be addres...
