Health and Care

The next cohort of the NHS England Peer Leadership Academy is open for applications from people with lived experience of personalised approaches to health and social care. This highly successful personal development programme has run for the last three years and aims to build people’s knowledge, skills […]

NCVO, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have produced a helpful roundup of news from the world of health and care. It covers the NHS Long Term Plan, social prescribing, the relationship with the voluntary sector and news from NHS England. Read more: […]

Public Health England has launched new free bite-sized e-learning sessions, developed in partnership with Health Education England, to improve the knowledge, confidence and skills of all health and care professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing. The sessions cover some of the biggest […]

A toolkit of good practice guidance has been launched to help homelessness teams improve their support to people who are, or may be, autistic. Research by Dr Alasdair Churchard has shown that there seems to be a much higher prevalence of autism among people supported by rough […]

Carers UK, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, run an annual State of Caring Survey. This is the UK’s most comprehensive research into the lives and experience of carers. Last year, it was completed by over 7000 carers. Carers UK would like as […]

NHS England and The National Lottery Community Fund are funding a network to support the creation of partnerships between Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs)/Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), patients and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. These partnerships can help to improve the health […]

A neonatal intensive care nurse, a GP who champions work with community groups and prominent disability and learning disability advocates are among people from across the country appointed to a new forum which will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan. Building on the collaborative […]

Friends, Families and Travellers, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have launched a report: ‘No room at the inn: How easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care?’ They found that 24 out of 50 GP practices contacted in […]

Registration is open now for Health and Care Innovation Expo – the biggest NHS-led event of the year – and if you work in a voluntary and community organisation you can register for free tickets. Focused on the NHS Long Term Plan, the conference and […]

A Refuge for All is a project led by disabled women with experience of violence and abuse, from Shaping Our Lives, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. This Findings Report and the Best Practice Toolkit provide a user-led approach to improving access for […]