Health and Care

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 […]

Public Health England has published a review of Health Inequalities in Older Populations in Rural and Coastal Areas, together with a blog article supporting the launch. The research provides evidence on the nature of health inequalities experienced by older populations in coastal and rural areas, together with […]

In July, the Government published the Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s , inviting the public to give their views on a series of proposals to tackle preventable ill health. The paper covers areas such as: new technologies in health care; challenges […]

On Friday the 20th September NHS England will be providing a webinar on Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP)/Integrated Care Systems (ICS) – an update from the Voluntary Partnership team (10:30am – 11:30am). On this webinar, Voluntary and Community organisations will give an update on some […]