Health and Care

As a recommendation from the apprenticeship scoping workshop held in March, Public Health England have now opened a consultation with employers of community-centred workers and front-line workers to better understand the duties, capabilities and current training opportunities of this workforce, as well as the extent […]

Groundswell, a member of Homeless Link, has launched a new partnership called #HealthNow with Crisis and Shelter. Funded by Community Fund (formerly BIG Lottery), the campaign is all about working towards an inclusive health system where everyone has access to the health care they need; […]

The Network for Pastoral, Spiritual, and Religious Care in Health has published new guidance around organisations working with the NHS. The first covers the authorisation, registration, and endorsement procedures of the mainstream chaplaincy religion and belief organisations in the NHS. It can be found here. […]

This week is Organ Donation Week, and NHS Organ Donation are running a campaign to help raise awareness of the upcoming changes to organ donation law. From spring 2020, England will be moving to an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation – all adults will be […]

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 about what’s happening and what works best. We’re looking […]

The Muslim Council of Britain launched a report yesterday which presents findings on elderly care, end-of-life care and after-death considerations from a faith perspective, based on work undertaken by the Muslim Council of Britain and the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. […]

Join the Patient and Public Voices Forum, and help put people and communities at the heart of the NHS Cancer Programme. The NHS Cancer Programme exists to improve early diagnosis, survival, quality of life and patient experience for people with cancer across England. Their Patient […]

Seán McLoughlin of the University of Leeds has launched the UK’s first independent report on the UK Hajj Sector, entitled Mapping the UK’s Hajj Sector: Moving towards communication and consensus. The report draws on three regional stakeholder consultation events and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, […]

The Network for Pastoral, Spiritual, and Religious Care in Health (formerly the Healthcare Chaplaincy Faith & Belief Group) has published guidance on the authorisation, registration, and endorsement procedures of the mainstream chaplaincy religion and belief organisations in the NHS and a practical toolkit for NHS […]

The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, together with Healthwatch and Versus Arthritis, have developed a set of Health and Wellbeing Resources packs – producing one for each local health and care system in England to give you access to locally specific information that can help you engage with […]