Health and Care

Our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, the UK Health Forum, with the Association of Mental Health Providers, Race Equality Foundation and the National LGB&T Partnership, have published VCSE Organisations: Framework for Building Consensus on Health and Work – Supporting disabled people and people with […]

The LaingBuisson Awards are the Oscars of health and social care. In their 14th year of recognising excellence, they are judged independently and objectively and focus on the people providing the care as well as their advisors. Last year, they received more than 375 nominations, […]

As members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, National Voices have launched a new Peer Support Hub this week. It’s an online bank of high quality resources for people looking to measure, evaluate, sustain and grow different types of peer support. The Hub collates, curates […]

Once again this international campaign is being supported by both NHS England and NHS Improvement and offers organisations the chance to celebrate the work that’s happening to improve experiences of care. They are inviting teams in Trusts, CCGs and care providers to engage and share  […]

The Race Equality Foundation has launched an evaluation looking at the impact of the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme. Based on pre and post programme data from 324 parents from across England, the evaluation shows: Between PRE and POST questionnaires there was a significant […]

NHS England and NHS Improvement are running two national events aimed at people who work in and use NHS services. Participants will hear directly from NHS leaders about proposals to change legislation and how they aim to improve the planning and delivery of care. There […]

Although primarily aimed at staff working in Clinical Commissioning Groups, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships and Integrated Care Systems, these webinars may be of interest to FaithAction members delivering health services or working with the NHS. Collaborating with communities: reducing the pressure and meeting demand in […]

Our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Win Win Alliance, have produced some very short and simple guides to co-production. This is in recognition that people with lived experience of disability, health conditions and using services welcome being able to contribute to service policy, […]

New guidance aiming to reduce inequalities for people with severe mental illness has been launched by Public Health England (PHE), working with the Association for Mental Health Providers, Centre for Mental Health and Rethink Mental Illness. Last week, PHE published the guidance which is intended […]

Alzheimer’s Society has produced a new series of booklets that aim to support people with dementia to continue to practise their faith – and they would like your feedback! The booklets include a brief introduction to dementia, information on the challenges that people with dementia […]