Health and Care
Guidance: Improving access to maternity care for women affected by charging
Maternity Action, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, and the Royal College of Midwives have produced guidance to assist NHS Trusts in minimising the negative impacts of charging on migrant women’s access to maternity care. The guidance will be of use to Overseas […]
Barnardo’s Project: Smaller VCSE organisations and social prescribing
Have you heard of social prescribing? This is where a link worker or ‘social prescriber’ – often connected to a GP surgery – supports people with social problems like loneliness and getting benefits to access help in the community, such as that offered by local […]
Collaboration for Change Report: Enhancing vaccine confidence across ethnic minority communities
Collaboration for Change have launched a new report on enhancing vaccine confidence across ethnic minority communities. The Collaboration for Change represents two UK universities, nine community organisations and two small and medium size enterprises, who, in a collective effort, have conducted research on how to […]
Survey: An Inclusion Health Monitoring System for England
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is considering establishing an Inclusion Health Monitoring System (IHMS) for England and would like to hear your views on this. Inclusion health is a ‘catch-all’ term used to describe people who are socially excluded. This can include […]
Bliss Animation: Babies with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
Bliss have created an animation for parents to understand when their baby has more than a cold, and the steps they can take to seek medical support to help protect their baby. You can watch the video here. The animation has been made in consultation […]
Report: The role of social prescribing link workers in reducing health inequalities
The National Association of Link Workers have produced a report highlighting the role of social prescribing link workers in reducing health inequalities. The report looks at how social prescribers connect people to community resources, work alongside primary care and utilizing limited resources, positively impacting marginalised […]
British Red Cross Report: High intensity use of accident and emergencies services
A new report by British Red Cross shows that high intensity use of Accident & Emergency services is fundamentally a health inequalities issue and called for investment to boost social prescribing. The report, Nowhere to turn: exploring high intensity use of accident and emergency services, […]
Locality Research: Community anchors and wider determinants of health research
Locality, part of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have launched a survey aimed at community anchor organisations. They want to hear from groups that have an impact on the wider determinants of their service user’s health. Locality are working with the new Office for Health […]
Locality: Community of Practice launch – helping VCSE and Primary Care Networks collaborate
Locality, a member of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an online event on Thursday 9th December, 3:00-4:00pm, for people who want to find out how they can get involved in Locality’s new ‘Community of Practice’ for better VCSE-Primary Care Network (PCN) collaboration. […]
Boloh Helpline: Supporting families of children with respiratory infections
Barnardo’s, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are running a helpline, aimed mainly at BAME or marginalised families with young children under three, to support them to manage respiratory infections this winter. The Boloh helpline is supporting parents of new-born babies and young […]