Health and Care

National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) are working in partnership with Independent Age to develop a new programme to support social prescribing for older people. If you have experience of social prescribing as an older person or family carer, or if you are involved with […]

The government has launched the publication of A Plan for Digital Health and Social Care. The plan for digital health and social care sets out a vision for a digitally enabled health and social care system and how it can be achieved – it collates […]

National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) have launched a new Volunteering for Wellbeing Guide, in partnership with the Royal Voluntary Service. The 7-step guide, created as part of the Accelerating Innovation programme, aims to empower organisations to support the wellbeing of those who engage in […]

Bliss, a charity for babies born premature or sick, is working with the Sands and Tommy’s Maternity Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, to understand what areas of neonatal care could be made better and fairer. They know that babies and families […]

Have you analysed the difference made by public places and ‘bumping’ places designed for people to meet such as streets, squares, parks, play areas, village halls and community centres? Or the extent to which cafes, pubs, community gardens, events and festivals, markets, libraries, schools and […]

The Barnardo’s Health Team is hosting a webinar on 19th July, 1-3pm: ‘Changing the Future for Children, Young People, and their Families: Integrated Care Systems and the role of the VCSE Sector’ The webinar will hear from: Sir Professor Michael Marmot, Director of the UCL […]

The Homeless Health Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have produced a toolkit to support vaccine uptake amongst people experiencing homelessness. The toolkit contains: an information leaflet that is either downloadable as a PDF, or the option to order a printed batch […]

FaithAction sit alongside Carers UK and Carers Trust as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance. This year, Carers UK are delivering a project looking at carers assessments and carers breaks. They are interested in gathering evidence from a range of organisations who support […]

Next week is Loneliness Awareness Week – The week, which is hosted by the Marmalade Trust, is in its sixth year and runs from 13-17 June 2022 and will be highlighting the many and varied instances when we feel lonely to normalise the feeling – […]

NHS England are looking for people to contribute to their Long COVID lived experience to help improve Long COVID services. The programme sets the national policy and commissioning standards for Post COVID services. Working with people with lived experience is vital to ensuring their work […]