News (Health and Wellbeing)

What's your wish for the NHS? We asked the NHS Older People's Sounding Board what they thought and this is what they said.

David Vickers is a member of the Older People’s Sounding Board. It’s a group we facilitate on behalf of NHS England where members use their skills and experience to provide feedback on policy proposals. The group also shares their views on the wider issues of wellbeing through themed conversations.

This year's 5th annual Advocacy Awareness Week (#AAW22) takes place from 7th -11th November 2022.

Through our delivery of Time to Talk, we heard about Staffordshire University’s work to make transitioning into Higher Education as smooth as possible.

NDTI Ambassador, Saba Salman, looks at why relying on GPs' discretion for moving people with learning disabilities into priority group 6 isn't enough to tackle health inequalities.

NDTi’s Associate, Peter Bates, outlines the factors that he believes are contributing to ‘the fog of confusion and lack of positive change' around out of area placements.

Hári Sewell is founder and Director of HS Consultancy and a former executive director of health and social care in the NHS. Hári questions how much is known about the experience of out of area placements of black or other racialised people.

Isaac Samuels, the Deputy Chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group, shares his personal story of an out of area placement.

Mark Trewin, from the Department of Health & Social Care, welcomes NDTi’s Close to Home paper for highlighting the need for the whole mental health system to work together to improve access to supportive community services.

David Brindle, the Guardian’s public services editor and NDTi’s ambassador and former chair, reflects on his 2010 story about ‘out of area treatments’ in light of the Close to Home review.