About us
We are Altogether Better
We work with people in health and social care across the UK and beyond to develop Collaborative Practice, a new way of organising that makes life better for everybody.
About us
Altogether Better is an NHS national network organisation, supporting health and care services across the UK to introduce our model of Collaborative Practice. We have worked with over 300 GP practices across the country as well as bringing our data-driven model of care to other health and care settings including acute hospital trusts, mental health settings, young people’s services and care homes.
Our people
Alyson McGregor, National Director
Alyson McGregor, Altogether Better’s national director, has over 30 years’ experience working in a range of roles in the public, private and voluntary sector which meet the health and wellbeing needs of patients, people and communities, including over 9 years NHS board level experience.
Alyson is co-lead of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate STP Primary Care work stream on self-care and is a founding member of the National Social Prescribing Steering Group which has grown rapidly from 6 founder members to over 1,300 across the UK. She believes a sustainable solution to the challenges faced by the NHS lies in improving the quality of our relationship with people in communities and working together to do things differently. Alyson was selected for inclusion in the HSJ’s inaugural ‘inspirational women leaders’, with the panel describing that “community empowerment is going to be important in the new NHS world and Alyson is visionary”.
About the team
Alyson leads an experienced team of staff and associates who bring a broad range of specialist skills to our work including:
Community engagement, development and organising, changing the dynamic between services and citizens
Organisational development and whole system approaches
Co-production and co-design
Approaches to change and leadership based on complex adaptive social systems
Developing and leading NHS Leadership development programmes for both clinicians and senior managers
Linguistic and discourse analysis
Health promotion in the voluntary sector and NHS
Evaluation and analysis of qualitative/quantitative data
Programme and contract management
Training development and delivery in the NHS and voluntary sector
Commissioning and design of services
Experience of working with and within in academia, the NHS, voluntary sector and primary care.
“I was overjoyed to hear that my patients who have been in a static place for many years have significantly reduced their blood sugars, lost weight and also feel much better in their mindset… I feel this way of collaborative working and group education is certainly effective.”
