Posts tagged healthcare

The Quiet Crisis: Challenges, changes and co-production to hear the voices of healthcare staff

In complex healthcare systems, staff voice is vital for ensuring healthcare professionals and service providers uphold safe, ethical and high-quality care. When staff are unable to voice concerns about patient safety or their own wellbeing, mistakes and misconduct are more likely to go unaddressed, allowing scandals to happen or last longer. Organisations such as the National Health Service (NHS) have been long aware of these risks and currently use “speaking up” policies to combat the silencing or neglect of staff concerns. After 9 years of speaking up policy many NHS staff still find themselves unheard or silenced. Now, the U.K. government’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), which oversees the NHS, proposes new plans to remove these existing policies and introduce new staff voice policy under the NHS Fit for the Future strategy (NHS England, 2025). In this blog post Sukhwinder Essie Kaur unpacks the failings of Speaking Up and explores how co-production research may be a key player in designing new policies and mechanism that better support NHS staff to voice their concerns.

Creating using evidence, Issues, Policy and governance, Advocacy, 21stC Policy and RightsPower to Persuade18 July 2025Policy making, Policy Research, healthcare

The Australian Government response to the Disability Royal Commission: Implementing strategies for improvement for people with disability within Australia’s health care system

Rae West details the Disability Royal Commission’s findings and recommendations on improving healthcare for people with disability, and the Australian Government’s response - as well as the disability community’s frustration at how few recommendations were accepted in full.

Policy and governancePower to Persuade3 September 2024Disability Royal Commission, Disability, healthcare

Peer-led services: reducing barriers to healthcare for LGBTIQA+ people

LGBTIQA+ people are more likely to experience marginalisation, stigma, social exclusion, abuse, and violence than the wider community. Philippa Moss, CEO of ACT-based LGBTIQA+ peer-led health service Meridian, and Alison Barclay, researcher and social impact consultant, explain how peer-led services are helping to address this gap, and what more needs to be done.

Advocacy, Creating using evidence, Gender, Issues, Policy and governance, Service DeliveryPower to Persuade6 July 2023social justice, healthcare, public health, mental health, social determinants of health, Disadvantage, discrimination, evidence-based policy, data and evidence for advocacy

The sun is setting on archaic abortion laws in the West

In today’s analysis, Megan Elias discusses the impact of recent reforms to abortion law in Western Australia. Megan is a women’s and sexual health professional based in Boorloo, working across government and the not-for-profit sector. Megan is WA representative and Secretary for the Australian Women’s Health Network (@AusWomensHealth).

Womens Policy Action Tank, Service DeliveryWomen's Policy Action Tank21 December 2022healthcare, women, public policy, Abortion

Labor's Budget Leaves Trans People Behind

Advocacy, GenderPower to Persuade16 December 2022transgender, healthcare

The disability educator and the healthcare worker: case studies in older women and the toxic workplace

Today’s blog post from Myfan Jordan (@myfan_jordan) of Grassroots Research Studio follows last week’s article describing workplace experiences for women over 40 during the pandemic: Pandemic or endemic: older women and the toxic workplace. Today, we hear the experiences of a disability educator and a healthcare worker during the pandemic. In their own words, they tell us of the psychological health and safety risks they experienced working at the frontline.

Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to Persuade8 September 2022gender, Disability, education, healthcare, COVID-19

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