The Patients Association Podcast
The Patients Association Podcast
Podcast Description
The Patients Association is an independent patient charity, that works directly with patients to campaign for improvements in health and social care. Here you'll find audio recordings of the Patients Association's free online webinars.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The webinars focus on essential themes in healthcare such as patient engagement, the impact of medical silencing, and the need for improved listening in medical practice, exemplified by discussions like the one with Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan, who highlights the historical lack of patient voice in healthcare.
The Patients Association is an independent patient charity, that works directly with patients to campaign for improvements in health and social care. Here you’ll find audio recordings of the Patients Association’s free online webinars.
About this event
Are you struggling to fund specialist care? Find out whether NHS Continuing Healthcare could be the answer. The cost of specialist care is a key concern for families. For those with long-term complex health needs, there is help available with a fully funded package of care, NHS continuing healthcare. Yet many potential recipients are missing out, due to lack of awareness, misinformation or simply being put off from applying due to the frustrating and challenging assessment process.
In this webinar, continuing healthcare experts discussed:
- What is NHS Continuing Healthcare?
- What are the eligibility criteria
- Dispelling the myths surrounding continuing healthcare
- How you can prepare for funding assessment
This webinar was delivered in partnership with Compass Continuing Healthcare. Speakers
- Sarah Tilsed: Head of Partnerships and Involvement, the Patients Association
- Louis Seymour: Legal Services Director, Compass
- Lady-Marie Dawson-Malcolm: patient, and Partnerships Coordinator, Spinal Injuries Association
- Rachel Hutchings: Fellow, Nuffield Trust
Our webinars are free to attend, so that everyone can access the information and support they need. If you’re able to do so, a voluntary donation helps support our work and ensures we can keep providing trusted information and support to patients who need it most.
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