Health and Care

National Association of Link Workers are holding the #LinkWorkerDay23 Awards on 27th April 2023 to celebrate Social Prescribing Link Workers’ impact and recognise all those who have made outstanding contributions in Transforming Healthcare for All through social prescribing. This year there is a new category […]

The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) is a membership organisation dedicated to supporting medical research charities in saving and improving lives through research and innovation. They ensure our member charities fund the best research by developing guides, providing training, and carrying out an audit […]

In early January, around 2.4 million randomly selected people registered with GP practices will be invited to answer a GP Patient Survey questionnaire about their experiences. The findings help to show what’s working and what needs to improve, and they help to identify inequalities in experience too, […]

Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2022 NHS England has launched its national Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES), asking for feedback from cancer patients (16 years and over*), to inform and improve local cancer services across England. The NHS want patients to have the best experience possible […]

The Race Equality Foundation has published a report on physical health checks for people with severe mental illness (SMI) from Black African and Caribbean communities. This project aimed to find out more about whether Black African and Caribbean people with SMI are aware of and […]

Carers Trust works to transform the lives of unpaid carers, their vision is that unpaid carers are heard and valued, with access to support, advice and resources to enable them to live fulfilled lives. Carers Trust has just launched a survey for young carers and […]

The NHS is working hard to improve maternity and neonatal services and they would like your help to shape how they do it. You can do this by completing their survey with your views. NHS England is writing an updated delivery plan for how they […]

MBRRACE-UK have published the MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report for 2022. This report includes surveillance data on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy between 2018 and 2020 in the UK. In addition, it also includes Confidential Enquiries into […]

Voiceability, a member of the Complex Needs Consortium in the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have published a research project on ‘The impact of opt-out advocacy’. Independent mental health advocacy is one important means by which people admitted to mental health in-patient services can have […]

From 1 April 2023, a Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) will be available to individuals residing in England, which on purchase would give free entitlement to HRT medication for a period of 12 calendar months from the date of purchase. People will be able to purchase […]