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Welcome to National Voices

We believe in people shaping health and social care services.  We want people to have better quality care and more choice, control and autonomy in the way they receive treatment and services.  We campaign for people to have a stronger voice in the design and delivery of services.

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National Voices sets out three tests to judge the success of NHS reform for patients

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Patients’ and carers’ umbrella group National Voices has urged that the coming NHS spending squeeze be used as a catalyst for improvement in care and treatment, not cuts. Commenting on the Government’s latest publications setting out how much money the NHS has to spend(1), how it will be spent(2) and how services will be improved(3), National Voices acknowledges the scale of the challenge in maintaining a high quality and affordable NHS and believes that involving patients and local communities in the changes will be key.

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The NMC meets the Service User Panel

On 30 October 2009 National Voices and the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) jointly hosted a roundtable event in Birmingham with representatives of National Voices' Service User Panel and a selection of Local Involvement Network (LINk) representatives. The aims of the day were to provide an introduction to the NMC's work and find out how the NMC can better involve service users and the wider public in its work; including setting and promoting standards, identifying issues around raising concerns about the practice of a nurse or midwife, and finally highlighting areas that the NMC should address in the future.

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Involving Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Communities

National Voices, the Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITMB) and the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) held a one-day workshop in London on 30 September 2009 to look at the experience of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities in getting involved in health and social care policy and practice, as well as to establish how to meaningfully involve them in the work of these three organisations and in a wider context.

The report from the day can be found here.

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National Voices' response to the Social Care Green Paper consultation

National Voices has welcomed the opportunities presented by the consultation, but has raised concerns about the lack of specific details contained in the Green Paper. Members were opposed to the proposals to include other benefits as part of the funding stream for the new National Care System, and concerned over the lack of reference to other policy initiatives that may be impacted by the Green Paper's proposals.

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Report from the National Voices' Party Conference dinners 2009: 'Assuring patient safety through regulation'

During the 2009 political party conference season, National Voices hosted a dinner discussion at each of the three main conferences, working in partnership with the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE), which provided guidance and advice in organising these dinners.  The theme of the dinners was ‘ensuring patient safety through regulation’, and participants were drawn from the health professional regulators, patient organisations, and respective political parties.