Health and Care

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a public consultation on a set of far-reaching proposals to improve and strengthen the UK clinical trials legislation to make the UK the best place to research and develop safe and innovative medicines. Clinical trials […]

Groundswell, part of the Homeless Health Consortium, a VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance group, have launched the Listen Up! Hub. It’s inhumane that people experiencing homelessness face barriers to healthcare and are more likely to die young. The Listen Up! hub collates raw reports on […]

The Suicide Prevention Consortium, part of the Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published a briefing, Insights from experience: alcohol and suicide, outlining findings and recommendations from their lived experience work looking at experiences of alcohol, suicide and self-harm, and a two-page summary. Based on survey […]

Healthwatch England has joined forces with a coalition of user-led national organisations to highlight how the NHS and social care fail to support people’s accessible communication needs. By law, all publicly funded health and social care providers must fully comply with the Accessable Information Standard […]

The Valuing People Alliance are holding an online discussion group for their digital inclusion project. They would like to invite people with learning disabilities, their family members, members of their support staff and other professionals to a discussion on their experiences of accessing health services […]

The government published a white paper yesterday on joining up care for people, places and populations. The paper is part of a wider set of mutually reinforcing reforms: the Adult Social Care Reform white paper, People at the Heart of Care and the Health and […]

The government has announced leads for two separate independent reviews to tackle health disparities. Findings from these reviews will form part of wider plans to level up the country and reduce existing inequalities through the Health Disparities White Paper which will aim to enable people […]

Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation have worked with 15 other Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations to create a new tool designed to support those with Long COVID.  You can find it here. My Long COVID Needs is designed to help people feel […]

Race Equality Foundation is currently conducting a study on reablement services for people living with dementia from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds funded by the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. The purpose of this research is to better understand whether reablement services are accessible and […]

Carers Trust is conducting a survey on the pressures and challenges facing young carers and young adult carers right across the UK. The survey ends on 31st January 2022 when the data will be collected for analysis so it is ready for release to coincide […]