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Everyone at some point in their lives will need help from public services and others to live well and manage their health. But how that help is given can make a big difference to our lives.

Cindy Boyd reflects on her experiences at Super Melting Pot hearing from Pinky Lilani, visiting Isis Prison and trying to define what it is to be kind.

Madeleine Harris Smith reflects on her experiences at Super Melting Pot, and discusses how we can support the health and care system to be kinder.

Marianne Monie tells us why we need to talk more about empathy and its significance to the care we provide. If we work in health and care then our work is all about people, and the one-by-one interactions between one human and another.

In 2018 the GMC commissioned me to carry out qualitative research aimed at understanding how doctors in senior leadership roles approached the goal of sustaining and building positive workplace cultures.

In the last of three blogs on the work of Community Connectors we focus on some of the most innovative solutions they have developed to overcome local challenges

In our second of three blogs about Community Connectors, we look at the importance of local networks in tackling loneliness.

Three speakers, nine stories, and a room full of people curious about how storytelling ties into health and care were the ingredients for the thought-provoking Unheard in Healthcare evening. 

In the first of three blogs about Community Connectors, we look at their work to address the stigma around loneliness.

Health policy loves a good cliché. Prevention better than cure. Care closer to home. Of late, we can add another: that social prescribing - a means for GPs, nurses and others to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services - is the future.