In the blog Fraser discusses the power of virtual group consultations to support the delivery of personalised care and some upcoming initiatives around offering virtual group consultations across the NHS.

A volunteer is someone who dedicates their time and effort to a cause or organisation without expecting financial compensation.

People who are supported to participate in their own health and care have improved patient experience.

We know that the most powerful personalised care conversations happen, when a coach-approach is taken, which involves adopting the mindset and core skills of coaching, or for this audience, health-coaching, to have more person-centred conversations.

The key question though is whether this funding, and the associated commitments, will radically transform the NHS’s digital performance and translate into improvements in patient experience and outcomes.

Here, Sarah takes a look at some of the context for approaching co-production and personalisation in your service, and how to start developing a strategy that incorporates these approaches.

Listening to women, hearing about their experiences, and crucially asking them what works for them will be critical in ensuring that the Women’s Health Strategy brings about meaningful change, and enables women to receive the Personalised Care that they, as individuals, need.

Children growing up in disadvantage are increasingly more likely to experience ill health. Rukshana Kapasi, Director of Health at Barnardo’s, explains how three integrated care systems are trialling different ways of doing things to improve outcomes for children and young people.

The first part of the Care Act 2014 drew heavily on the Law Commission’s review of adult social care. The review began in 2007 and its initial terms of reference did not even refer to carers or the notion of wellbeing but both came to feature heavily in the Act,

It’s vital to #KeepLearning at all stages of your career. We round-up some of the learning and development opportunities available for managers in social care.

Coproduction comes from a service point of view and is a way of working to involve people who are served by services.

When trying to envision the future of the health and care system in England, the difficult question to answer is not ‘What do we do?’ – the vision for care has been outlined by multiple governments in countless policy documents – but ‘How do we actually make it happen?’