ImPatient: The Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership newsletter

Summary

David Gilbert is a writer and health activist. He was the first patient director in the healthcare system. He is a mental health service user with 40 years of experience in healthcare, specialising in patient and public engagement and coproduction. He helped pioneer the concept of patient leadership and authored ‘The Patient Revolution - how we can heal the health care system’. He is the founder and director of InHealth Associates, a network of specialists that supports experiential practice and patient leadership.

His monthly newsletter, Impatient, is now published on the HSJ website.

Content

• November 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #30 - ‘We talked to several members of the public’
• October 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #29 Patient voice makes a confusing appearance in the Darzi report
• September 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #28 - When life throws you lemons, make lemonade
• August 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #27 - Good news, long reads and tin foil hats
• July 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #26 - Creating a culture of care
• June 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #25 - Dealing with Big pharma and Big everything
• May 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #24 - Tough work – The emotional labour of patient leadership
• April 2024 - Patient and leadership Newsletter #23 - Asking good questions and getting organised
• March 2024 - Patients and leadership Newsletter #22 - Patients and leadership
• February 2024 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #21 - Patient leadership in the digital world
• January 2024 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #20 - Directors and their clout
• December 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #19 - Small steps to big change
• November 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #18 - Escorted to the carpark
• October 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #17  - It's all about the power - we don't have any
• September 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #16 - How to channel anger
• August 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #15 - Patient leadership goes global
• July 2023 - Patient Leadership Newletter #14 - It's an exciting/sad/frustrating/optimistic time for patient leadership
• June 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #13 - The dilemma of patient leaders in pursuit of justice and equality
• May 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #12 - When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled
• March 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #11 - We can feel like imposters
• February 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #10 - With no budgets to squeeze, true patient voice could safeguard services
• January 2023 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #9 -  Patient leadership in the drug licensing and pricing game
• December 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #8 - Patient leadership, not partnership, is what the NHS needs
• November 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #7 - ‘Patient voice is filtered to make it palatable to the powerful’
• October 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #6 - The growth in patient leadership
• September 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #5
• August 2022 - Foundations in Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership
• May 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #4
• March 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #3
• January 2022 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #2
• November 2021 - Patient Leadership Newsletter #1