Health and Care
Sharing learning from the Starting Well Fund & Barnardo’s Consortium
The Barnardo’s Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding a free webinar on Tuesday 10th January, 2-4pm sharing learning from the Starting Well Fund and work to support children and families and reduce health inequalities. The Starting Well Fund, run by […]
NALW #LinkWorkerDay23 Awards
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 […]
Association of Medical Research Charities: Supporting medical research charities
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 […]
NHS England GP Patient Survey 2023
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, […]
NHS England: Cancer Patient Experience Survey
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 […]
Race Equality Foundation report: Physical health checks for people with severe mental illness from Black African and Caribbean communities
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: Young Carers and Young Adult Carers Survey 2022
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 […]
NHS England survey: Refreshed Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services in England
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: Saving Lives Improving Mothers’ Care – Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20
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 […]
New research: Voiceability – The impact of opt-out advocacy
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 […]
