Notes from the front line: Living with multiple long term conditions.
Guest blog from Jane Taylor, member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions and expert by experience.
Guest blog from Jane Taylor, member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions and expert by experience.
Guest blog by Lynda Thomas, Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support. Lynda is the chair for the National Steering Group for our Doing the Right Thing Programme.
You know momentum is building behind a social movement when it gets its own day, it's great to see the first Social Prescribing Day launched today.
Guest blog by Kim Ryley, an expert by experience on the Expert Advisory group for the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions.
“The question therefore is not whether a Man would choose to be always in the prime of Youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.”
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Chloë Reeves is leaving the Richmond Group this week, after more than two years of providing national programme management to our Doing the Right Thing work. With NHS England about to publish their 'definitive delivery plan' for social prescribing, she reflects on what she hopes it will (and won't) include.
It has been a while in the waiting, but today we see the full detail of the NHS’ Long Term Plan. There is lots to welcome; we offer our ongoing collaboration to help make the strong vision set out in this plan a reality.
In the 70 years since the National Assistance Act and the new National Health Service established the modern welfare state, our health and care needs have changed and grown.
There are hundreds of articles and research papers on the role physical activity can play in preventing, reducing the risk of and managing multiple common diseases, with policy makers and academics, regularly citing it as the ‘miracle cure’. You will also be able to think of friends or family members for whom moving more and being active has made their life better.
Our Tapping the Potential report captured learning from the initial stages of our collaborative work in Somerset, including success factors for collaboration, consideration of collaboration challenges, and reflections for local and national decision-makers beyond Somerset. The report was researched and authored by New Philanthropy Capital and was generously supported by Guy’s and St.
There is a frequently quoted statistic that it takes, on average, 17 years for an innovation to be spread widely across the health system.
