System Gap

The economic case for lived experience has already been made - just not here, yet. The meeting wasn’t unkind. They rarely are. The patient voice tends to be item seven on the agenda, somewhere between communications update and any other business. Eighteen months on from the stroke, in one of the research institutions that has invited me in as a lay stakeholder, I have been in enough of these rooms now to know that the slot on the agenda is the slot in the structure. Item seve

A stroke survivor shares why she's pursuing a neuroscience degree while managing recovery, family life, and building tools to help others navigate healing.

Fighting for continuity of care. Becoming your own best friend.

This story isn’t about trashing the NHS. It saved my life. But once I was discharged, I entered a void.