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Welcome to the BIHR Health Hub! 

This hub brings together BIHR's work to put human rights at the heart of health and care. We have been working for over 15 years to support organisations to use human rights to improve health and care services. We have worked across the sectors, with NHS Trusts, local authorities, regulators, advocacy and support groups and other voluntary sector organisations. Our work shows that human rights can be a useful, practical tool for those working in health and care to improve services and outcomes for people.

Whether you work in service design or delivery, as an advocate or support worker, regulator, if you use services yourself or care for someone who does, there's something on the hub for you. The information collated here aims to empower you to know about human rights and use them in your daily work/life to ensure services are treating people with dignity and respect

You can find out WHY we are focusing on human rights in health and care, WHO we have worked with, HOW we have approached this work and WHAT we have achieved so far. Just scroll over the tabs at the top of the site to navigate between pages, or click the BIHR tick icon to go back to the main home page.

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This 2 hour session is open to senior leadership within North Central London Transforming Care Partnership. The session will offer two things:

  • A short human rights and leadership session aimed at improving capacity and confidence in embedding human rights law practically in commissioning, operational delivery and decision making.
  • An opportunity for the British Institute of Human Rights to share learning from our service user, staff and advocacy session within the TCP.

Please sign up below and an agenda and further details will follow in advance of the session. 

If you have any questions about the session or if you sign up online and can no longer make it, please get in touch with [email protected] and let us know. 

We look forward to seeing you then!

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