Health and Care

The GSK IMPACT Awards provide funding, training and development for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing.  The awards are funded by GSK and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund. They are open to registered charities that are at least three […]

Everyone can benefit from taking simple steps to look after their mental health and wellbeing, but people don’t always understand the positive link with physical activity. As part of the Physical Activity & Wellbeing legacy ambition for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which aims to […]

As part of our work within the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, we recently held two roundtables that aimed to uncover best practice in the inclusion of faith- and community-based centres in the roll out of social prescribing and tackling loneliness. Faith and community groups […]

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) are seeking applications from VCSE sector organisations for the next round of the Health and Wellbeing Fund. The theme of the 2022 to 2025 fund is women’s reproductive wellbeing in […]

NHS England has published statutory guidance for Integrated Care Boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts on working with people and communities. The guidance will support them to meet their public involvement legal duties and deliver the Health and Care Act’s ‘triple aim’ of better health […]

Race Equality Foundation, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published their response to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) consultation on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan and call for evidence. The response was produced by the Foundation with the […]

NHS England have issued the following advice around Eid ul-Adha: With Eid ul-Adha and other summer festivities just around the corner, many people are looking forward to celebrating with loved ones, and the chance to come together to recite our prayers and savour delicious meals. For […]

The Kings Fund have produced a framework, drawing on a rapid review of published evidence, and on learning from six partnerships that are part of the Healthy Communities Together programme, for reflective learning that partners can use together. As integrated care systems develop, NHS, local […]

The APPG on Baby Loss and the APPG on Maternity have launched a call for evidence to understand the impact of staffing shortages on the quality and safety of maternity care, experience of parents and babies, and staff morale and motivation. The call will be […]

Learning Disability England, part of the Valuing People Alliance in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have co-produced some top tips of how health and social care services, partners and others should work to ensure that people with learning disabilities and autistic people can be […]