Health and Care

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 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 […]

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 […]

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, 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, 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. […]

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 […]

Roma Support Group, part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance have been raising awareness on vulnerabilities of Roma communities throughout the pandemic; working with local authorities to engage with and support the Roma communities. Throughout this period, they have been working on a brief […]

The Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched an online consultation survey on the future of medical device regulation, which explores how MHRA can create a regulatory system that has patients at its heart. The consultation covers a wide range of regulatory issues, […]

Race Equality Foundation, a fellow member of the VSCE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, are carrying out research on race inequality and people with learning disabilities. They are interested in speaking with people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds who have a learning disability, as […]