Health and Care

Tommy’s and Sands are working as part of a Maternity Consortium within the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance to reduce health inequalities in maternity and have launched a survey to understand pregnant women and birthing people’s experiences of accessing maternity services and any barriers they […]

Details have been published on the government’s Vision for the Women’s Health Strategy for England, informed by the call for evidence last year. By the time the call for evidence closed 14 weeks later, we had received nearly 100,000 responses from women across the country, […]

The CHAMPIONS (Children in Homeless Accommodations Managing Pandemic Invisibility Or Non-inclusive Strategies) project has been looking at the experiences of families with children under 5 who have been living in temporary accommodation. It is a nationwide project led by Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL) run by […]

Tommy’s and Sands are working as part of a Maternity Consortium within the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance to reduce health inequalities in maternity and have launched a survey to understand pregnant women and birthing people’s experiences of accessing maternity services, and any barriers they […]

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have published a draft guideline update on depression in adults and would like your feedback. The draft recommendations, including those on access, coordination, and delivery of care, may be of interest to social care commissioners, approved […]

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives have welcomed a decision by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to roll out the COVID-19 booster vaccine to all people over the age of 18, meaning the majority of […]

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) 2020 Children and Young People’s Patient Experience Survey has been published this week. This survey asked children and young people, and their parents and carers, about their experience in English hospitals between November 2020 and January 2021. The survey received […]

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 […]

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 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 […]