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neilgchurchill.bsky.social
Working together to improve experience and equity. NHS director and charity chair. Unpaid carer, with a sideline as an independent medieval art historian. Conversation also welcome on theatre, books, films and exhibitions.
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Thanks to the Carers Partnership, here is a practical new resource to help improve the identification and support of unpaid carers in NHS, drawn from tried and tested methods www.carersuk.org/media/q1klni...

New on the blog 📢 Following the publication yesterday of our new report with @thekingsfund.bsky.social and @healthwatchengland.bsky.social, our Chief Executive, @jacoblant.bsky.social writes about why tackling #NHSAdmin will help improve outcomes. 👉 www.nationalvoices.org.uk/blogpost/why...

Refreshed Experience of Care Improvement Framework now live, reflecting new priorities. Includes focus on learning from people who do not use services as expected, building on Trusts' efforts to understand and report actual vs expected access. www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new self-assessment and improvement framework for ICSs 🎉 This framework has been developed in partnership with CQC and @pointofcarefdn.bsky.social, with funding from the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund. To read the framework👇 www.cqc.org.uk/local-system...

An effective complaints system should be an essential part of improving health services and restoring public satisfaction with the NHS. We need a change in the NHS complaints system. Read our recommendations www.healthwatch.co.uk/news/2025-01...

NHS England is seeking two new patient and public voice (PPV) partners to join the Heart and Lung Transplant Transformation Programme Board, one for children’s heart transplant and one for children’s lung transplant. Involvement payment available. Closes: 5 Feb.

Missed our @NHSThinkCarer Bi-Monthly webinar yesterday- New Model Of Triangle of Care presented by @DebbieHustings @DonnaBLPFT ? You can watch it again here 👉🏾 rb.gy/wddeyy #NHSThinkCarer 💙

We have 2 v detailed reports on evidence for collection of protected characteristics in healthcare (produced with a range of partners). Loads of useful info, including case law. Publication on NHSE website might not be most useful for docs this size. Any suggestions how/ where we could publish them?

Think this is still my favourite figure in the current Van Gogh exhibition. Looks admirably chilled.

@chris-branson.bsky.social www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/jon...

Don’t miss your chance to help inform positive change to cancer services.🤝 If invited, have your say in the #CancerExperienceSurvey www.ncpes.co.uk @nhsengland.bsky.social

Pleased to see today's commitment to allow parents & unpaid carers by March 2027 to manage secondary care appointments & treatment options via NHS App on behalf of others. This has piloted very well and will be a practical help for many #unpaidcarers #NHSThinkCarer www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

Liked this installation at Runnymede

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 20. What A Carve Up, Jonathan Coe

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 19. Movies of the Thirties, ed. Ann Lloyd

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 18. The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 17. The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 16. The Lonely City, Olivia Laing

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 15. The Castle, Kafka

2,365,282 NHS Friends and Family Test responses in October, that is a lot of feedback and insight

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 14. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #books #bookchallenge 13. After Midnight, Irmgard Keun