Health and Care

In their new Call to Action, Tackling Loneliness & Building Community, British Red Cross are working with leading charities to set out their priorities for a future government to tackle loneliness and build community. We at FaithAction are part of this group, supporting this work. […]

Aneemo are holding a launch event for a new training course ‘Improving Access to Services for People Experiencing Multiple Disadvantage and Co-occurring Conditions’. Join us on the 3rd of October, where they will provide a preview of this training programme and host a group discussion […]

The Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey helps NHS England to understand and improve children’s cancer and tumour care in England. They need help from children who have used NHS cancer and tumour services, and their parents/carers, to test the survey with us. Your help […]

What do you think about the NHS App? The Patients Association Chairs the Patient Coalition for AI, Data and Digital Tech in Health (known as the Digital Coalition). The aim of the Coalition is to bring the patient voice to the development and introduction of […]

Many children have struggled to return to school since the pandemic, and MPs on the Commons education committee suggest that mental health difficulties should be a valid reason for children to miss school while fines aimed at parents should be kept as a “last resort”. […]

Carers Trust, one of our partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have released their Adult Carer Survey Report based on a survey of 3,430 adult carers. The survey found that unpaid carers are exhausted, the time they spend on caring has soared, almost […]

The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) have published a new consultation into pre-employment checks for health and care volunteers Pre-employment checks for health and care volunteers. This consultation sets out our proposal to change the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations […]

NHS England have launched the new Chaplaincy Guidelines. The new Guidelines replace those previously published in 2015 and they set the ambition for inclusive chaplaincy services in all NHS settings and recognise the invaluable contribution that Chaplains make to health and care. The guidelines have […]

The Race Equality Foundation (REF) have published a new report: Not by choice – the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disempowered ethnic minority and migrant communities REF was commissioned by UKRI in collaboration with UCL and DOTW to analyse the unequal impact of […]

The Race Equality Foundation and the NHS Race and Health Observatory are holding an online report launch of ‘We deserve better: Ethnic minorities with a learning disability and access to healthcare’ on Tuesday 25th July from 2pm – 3.30pm. Join the NHS Race and Health […]