I am excited to announce I am part of the 2020/21 cohort of the Innovate UK Young Innovators Awards. What a real privilege this is to be considered worthy among such amazing innovators. I am part of the cohort due…
Lucy has been named the 2020 Digital Leader of the Year by Digi Leaders. Lucy said: "It's a true honour to have been awarded - and considered worthy of - the 2020 Digital Leader of the Year in the DL100.…
On Tuesday 8th October 2019 the 2019 Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 List was announced at a launch event in the House of Lords. Sadly I was unable to attend - I have been poorly this week with a chest…
With everything going on in the country currently, you’d be hard pressed to be able to ignore the negative press around the NHS, its future, the care it’s providing, patient satisfaction, and how other countries (without naming them) are trying…
Today, 3rd December, is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. As a woman with a disability living in the UK, I wanted to write a blog to celebrate this day and talk about some issues that are important to…
So, continuing my series about the NHS Peer Leadership Academy, here’s an update on Day 4 (aka day 2 of the second two-day residential, the first residential being in September, the final residential being in November). I am now home…
Today I had an absolutely amazing day at the Patient Leadership Workshop Event run by Health Education East of England, East of England NHS Leadership Academy and The Eastern Academic Health Science Network. It was an event to bring together…
We need a co-operative NHS, one in which patients and professionals can work together on an equal footing to improve our NHS and in which patients are valued for their expertise on the health service, being experts by experience. Patients'…