Health and Care

The Health and Social Care Select Committee has announced the launch of an inquiry into community mental health services. The inquiry will examine what good looks like from the perspective of service users and their families/carers. The Committee would like the inquiry to shine a […]

Data published today by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show reported notifications of TB in England increased by 11% in 2023 compared to the previous year. There were 4855 notifications of the disease in 2023, compared to 4380 in 2022. However, England still remains […]

Health and care charity, the King’s Fund, have launched a new learning community, ShiftWorks, offering seven CPD-accredited courses, bite size learning and online events, for those working with the health and care system. Access to the learning community is available for £30 per year for […]

The British Red Cross, in partnership with Dorset ICS, has released ‘Seen and heard: Understanding frequent attendance at A&E’. The report reveals that a small amount of A&E users in Dorset account for more attendances than others, with links to deprivation, mental ill health, and long-term […]

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) are running their first ever maternity and neonatal conference for residents and health professionals in Redbridge. The conference aim is to co-produce a maternity and neonatal delivery plan for the London Borough of Redbridge. The workshop […]

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) are holding a listening event at Loxford Children’s Centre for healthcare professionals working in maternity within the trust. The trust are seeing a rising number of people declining male members of staff, and would like to […]

Carers UK, fellow members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have released two reports as part of Carers Rights Day 2024. The first, Valuing Carers 2021/22, published in partnership with the Centre for Care, finds that unpaid carers are now providing care worth a […]

Faith in Later Life have recently launched Love My Neighbour – a campaign aimed at a Christian audience designed to take us beyond the church threshold, to bring life to older people in our communities. Why Now? Winter is a time of increased loneliness, especially […]

From now until March 2025, the Maternity Consortium, fellow members of the VSCE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, will be exploring how interpreting services work in Maternity and Neonatal care, from both patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives. They’re focusing on spoken interpreting and BSL (British Sign Language) interpreting in […]

Working with over 400 young and young adult carers, NHS England has produced 5 top tips for GPs and staff in NHS services in order to better support young carers. The NHS is currently working on how to embed this guidance into general practice. The […]