Health and Care

People’s experiences of the care they receive from community-based mental health services have continued to deteriorate. The CQC’s new survey results highlight concerns around access to care, care planning and support for people with mental health conditions in relation to physical health needs, financial advice or […]

This week, The Great Get Together are launching the second year of The Great Christmas Get Together’s #MincePieMoments campaign and they would love for you to be a part of it! As the Jo Cox Loneliness Commission recently found, millions of us feel lonely some […]

NCVO recently developed Volunteering and end-of-life care: An evidence-based toolkit to address the problem of supporting people with advanced illness, and their families. The ‘end-of-life’ period is a difficult time for many people. Typically, people experience changes in health and reduction in ability in what they […]

Public Health England’s Healthy Communities Team have helped to pull together some blogs which  both follow on from the PHE Conference in September of this year and examine the role that communities and VCSE organisations have to play in public health. publichealthnorth.wordpress.com publichealthnorth.wordpress.com

The NHS is running a campaign to ensure people claim free prescriptions only if they are entitled to them – and that they avoid penalty fines. Some of the key messages are that not all benefits entitle people to free prescriptions, and that pregnant women […]

Volunteering Matters have introduced a second edition to their Volunteering and Youth Social Action in Health and Social Care toolkit. Please visit volunteeringmatters.org.uk to find out more.

Mind and Soul has updated the Mental Health Access Pack for churches. Visit the Mental Health Access Pack for: information on common mental health conditions; pastoral tips and pitfalls; theological perspectives on mental health; and printable colour PDFs of the articles, suitable for adding to […]

‘Collaboration in Practice’ is a report from NAVCA, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. It is a good practice guide on collaboration with the VCSE sector, with examples throughout – such as a case study showing how CVS Erewash has worked with the […]

The NHS has been seeking input into the long term plan it is developing. It has held over 150 meetings with stakeholders and received hundreds of written submissions, plus more than 2,000 submissions online (one of which was from FaithAction!) The plan is expected to […]

The Institute for Health Equity report ‘A Fair, Supportive Society’ highlights that some of the most vulnerable people in society – those with learning disabilities – will die 15-20 years sooner on average than the general population. That’s 1,200 people every year. The report, commissioned by NHS […]