Author Archives: FaithAction
Equality and Human Rights Commission report on healthcare and asylum seekers
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has released a new report that highlights the experiences of people both seeking and refused asylum accessing healthcare in the UK. The report finds that Both policy and implementation present barriers to access to healthcare The fear of detention/deportion, […]
The Next Generation – new report on intergenerational interaction
United for All Ages, a ‘think and do’ tank, have released a new report, The Next Generation, which explores interactions between different generations of British society, with a focus on the benefits that it can bring to future generations of children and young people. The […]
Supporting International Doctors in the UK conference
FaithAction’s own Dr Anne Smith has been invited to speak at the ‘Supporting International Doctors in the UK’ conference in April later this year. Anne, who developed our Creative English programme, will be talking about how Creative English has been used by the Barking, Havering […]
Your views needed on new EU exit information website
Leaving the EU means a number of changes that will affect organisations and individual citizens. The Government has developed a website, at gov.uk/euexit, to give information on how to prepare and the steps organisations and individuals may need to take. The Department of Digital, Culture, […]
VCSE Consultation Survey on Health & Work
The UK Health Forum, in partnership with the Race Equality Foundation, National LGB&T Partnership and the Mental Health Consortium, is conducting a scoping and consensus building exercise to: Recognise what Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) health-focused organisations are already doing as employers to support disabled […]
Long Term Plan summary briefs
NHS England have produced a number of short summaries of the Long Term Plan focusing on different issues such as: Ageing well and the NHS Long Term Plan; Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan; Starting Well and the NHS Long Term Plan;
Advice services help reduce stress and improve health
A new report shows that there is a significant reduction in stress and significant improvement in mental wellbeing as a result of advice service interventions. The research was conducted in Citizens Advice Gateshead, and used the Perceived Stress Scale and WEMWBS (the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing […]
FUNDING: Tesco’s Bags of Help grant
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FUNDING: Active Communities Fund South West
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Are you commissioned by the NHS?
NHS England is now consulting on the NHS Standard Contract for its commissioned organisations for 2019/20. The draft Contract and consultation documents are available on the NHS Standard Contract web page: www.england.nhs.uk Stakeholders are invited to comment on the proposals by emailing [email protected] by 1st February 2019. […]