Health and Care

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 […]

The National Centre for Rural Health and Care has launched a Call for Evidence to inform its planned Rural Health Workforce Toolkit. Following on from their Rural Proofing for Health Toolkit of 2020, the new toolkit will focus on workforce issues which are contributing to health inequalities […]

A new FutureNHS workspace has been launched, designed for those working in health and care systems to share information, learning and resources showcasing collaborative working between the NHS, local government, the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector and other local partners. To sign up, […]

As part of the annual winter vaccination campaign which encourages uptake of the flu and COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant women, NHS England have added some information about the whooping cough vaccine and recently released RSV vaccine. The main message for pregnancy is: If you’re pregnant, […]