No Barriers Here© works with and alongside communities who experience health inequity and structural vulnerability to address systematic barriers and share our learning with healthcare professionals, stakeholders and providers to improve palliative and end of life care for all.
No Barriers Here is a unique and innovative approach to advance care planning for people and communities who experience inequity accessing palliative and end of life care. It was originally co-produced with people with learning disabilities in 2019 and uses arts-based methods to support people to think about advance care planning, whilst ensuring the process is inclusive and accessible. Many people who are marginalised often do not have the opportunity to plan for the end of life. This may be due to systematic barriers, socio-economic factors or a lack of confidence from healthcare professionals. We believe that everyone has the right to receive equitable palliative and end of life care. If you plan ahead and share your wishes for the end of life, it is much more likely that people will understand what matters most and support you in your decision making.
Since 2019, we have worked in co-production with underserved communities as part of No Barriers Here, creating safe and inclusive places within the community for a less verbal yet more equitable approach to advance care planning.
Today, we’re training members of @NHFTNHS community #learningdisability team to become #NoBarriersHere workshop facilitators.
If you’d like to join us next year, please visit: https://www.nobarriershere.org/facilitator-training/training-events/
A huge congratulations @JedJerwood for receiving the Innovation Award from the British Association of Art Therapists for his work with No Barriers Here
This award is very well deserved & we’re all extremely proud of you! 👏
Read more here:
@MSHospice
🌟 Congratulations to the recipients of our #ArtTherapists Awards!
‘Inclusive and anti-oppressive practice’ @CorrinaEastwood
‘Innovation’ @Jed Jerwood
Read about all the amazing work of the nominees: https://bit.ly/4fxIEES
Thank you @artfund for sponsoring the award!
🙌 A big thank you to our first speakers, including a wonderful presentation by @JedJerwood an award-winning, internationally acclaimed model of advance care planning.
#BAATAnnualConference #ArtTherapy
The UK’s Second National Advance Day Plan Day will take place on the 7th May 2024 📣
#ACPDay2025 will be bigger, better…
😍 Increased website interactivity (list your own events)
😍 National Conference returns
😍 New resources
😍 Increased societal impact
#AdvanceCarePlanning
We attended the @NHSEngland EOL Webinar LD and Autism this morning to talk all things ACP with over 200 attendees and made this fantastic 'virtual quilt' inspired by the @NoBarriersHere programme!
🔔 Missed out on attending our training this year? Not to worry, we’ve opened a new date for No Barriers Here Facilitator Training for 2025.
📆 Thursday 27th March 2025
⏰ 09:00 - 16:00
📌 Mary Stevens Hospice (W. Mids)
To register, please visit: https://www.nobarriershere.org/facilitator-training/training-events/