Health and Care

NCVO released the latest in its Time Well Spent series today. This edition focuses on volunteering in the public sector. The overall picture is positive but research reveals areas for improvement to allow public sector volunteering programmes to fulfil their potential, says NCVO. People giving their […]

Black and minority ethnic cancer patients have been telling NHS England how staff across the NHS could help improve their experience of care. This is an important area as people from BME backgrounds consistently report poorer experiences via their annual Cancer Patient Experience Survey, the […]

If you work in a charity or social enterprise and want to understand if your activities help people feel less lonely, then this guide from What Works Wellbeing is for you. In order to get the most of this guidance, they expect you to know […]

PHE’s Healthy Communities Team have today published Community-centred public health: taking a whole system approach. They have conducted research into current practice across local systems and have produced a suite of resources which are intended for use by local authority, NHS and VCS decision makers, […]

FaithAction is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to hold a roundtable discussion, focused on how faith-based organisations are offering holistic care to people in their communities, including spiritual or pastoral support.  We’ll be asking: what is happening, and what works best? We’re looking […]

Friends, Families and Travellers, along with Homeless Link, have been asked by NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a new Inclusion Health Audit Tool for Primary Care Networks, which helps networks to assess their current work in tackling health inequalities faced by Inclusion Health […]

Around 2.2 million people, aged 16 and over, who are registered with a GP practice in England will receive an invitation to take part in Europe’s biggest patient experience survey in the new year. The invitations go out mainly by letter to a sample of […]

FaithAction are working on a project led by the Carers Trust for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about carers in transition – looking at how carers can be best supported to plan for when they are able to provide less or no […]

NAVCA, the national membership body for local sector support and development organisations, are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to conduct some research into partnerships between NHS Trusts and organisations within the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. More specifically, the research aims to […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently published a comprehensive scoping review on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing. A review of over 900 academic publications from 2000-2019 shows strong evidence of the arts facilitating both the prevention and promotion, and the management […]