Health and Care

National Voices will be holding an all-day conference on 23rd June exploring the topic of Integrated Care Systems. National Voices want to see better, more equal outcomes for people, especially those not currently well supported by existing models. They also want to see more coordinated […]

The government has committed to develop a new cross-government, 10-year plan for mental health and wellbeing for England to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes, particularly for people who experience worse outcomes than the general population. They want to ensure the new plan responds to […]

Women’s Health and Family Services (WHFS) have an innovative Maternity Mates volunteer project that fills that crucial gap for disadvantaged pregnant women in what can be, for some, an overwhelming and challenging time further exasperated by social and economic hardship and stretched health services. Today, […]

The What Works Centre for Wellbeing (WWCW) has commissioned the Centre for Thriving Places to conduct a Rapid Review of evaluations of social capital interventions aimed at children, young people and adults, and delivered within the UK and across OECD countries. The project is funded […]

Groundswell have launched a new COVID-19 information leaflet for people experiencing homelessness. It contains up-to-date guidance on the current situation and how we can all continue to stay safe, as well as advice from Groundswell’s peers with lived experience of homelessness. It is in double-sided […]

The Association of Mental Health Providers, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are looking for people to join their Lived Experience Advisory Group. They would like people with living/learnt experience of poor mental health and illness, including SMI, or an unpaid carer, who […]

The Lowdown and NHS England have produced a guide and held a webinar on the COVID-19 vaccine and fertility. The Lowdown teamed up with NHS colleagues to host an online chat with Reproductive Immunologist Dr Viki Male, and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr Fatima Husain, to discuss the […]

The cross government Green Social Prescribing Programme team are hosting the ‘Green Social Prescribing Conference: How to Embed and Scale Green Social Prescribing’. It has been one year since the launch of the green social prescribing programme to prevent and tackle mental ill-health and they […]

The NHS England and NHS Improvement Insight and Feedback Team are recruiting three Lived Experience Partners to bring a patient experience perspective to their Long-COVID Patient Experience Research Working Group. The Insight and Feedback team have commissioned a research project, aimed at understanding the experiences […]

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care recently announced the publication of a Digital Health and Care Plan in spring 2022. The publication will set out a delivery plan for the things  already committed to within the NHS Long Term Plan, as well […]