Sharing Power event report published
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 23rd April 2025
Read a summary of the Integration in Action event on Sharing Power.
On 10th April 2025, the Health and Social Care Alliance (the ALLIANCE), in partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Scotland, hosted the fourth event in our Integration in Action series. These events bring together speakers from a diverse range of sectors and organisations to talk about how they are putting the ALLIANCE Health and Social Care Academy’s Five Ambitions for the Future of Health and Care into practice.
The event was chaired by Professor Anne Hendry, Director of IFIC Scotland, and Lucy Mulvagh, Director of Policy, Research and Impact at the ALLIANCE, and was attended by 45 people.
We heard from four speakers from different organisations highlighting examples of what Sharing Power looks like in action. They shared insights into how people and organisations can be supported to meaningfully take part in decision making processes.
- Isla McIntosh, Senior Communities and Networks Officer, Poverty Alliance
- Zahida Purves, Community Activist
- Jim Guyan, Shetland IJB Unpaid Carer Representative
- Georgina Charlton, Programme Manager for Special Projects, the ALLIANCE
These presentations showcased what is currently happening within the health and social care landscape and how that has had a significant impact on the progression of health and social care integration. We heard first from Isla McIntosh about the Poverty Alliance’s work to support people with lived experience to tackle inequality, and then from Zahida Purves who shared essential considerations for sharing power to ensure lived experience participation is meaningful. We then heard from Jim Guyan about how he has worked with communities across Shetland to address local challenges. Finally, Georgina Charlton spoke about how the ALLIANCE supports people with lived experience of gambling harms to influence changes in policy and culture, and to breakdown stigma around gambling harms.
Read more about the event in the summary report below.
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