Health and Care

The FaithAction team will be at this year’s NHS Expo – the biggest NHS-led event in the calendar – where we’ll be helping staff the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance stand. The Alliance are also involved in two ‘pop-up university’ sessions at NHS Expo. The […]

The Race Equality Foundation has produced a report based on a project that it has worked on in partnership with FaithAction, Friends, Families and Travellers, and Public Health England. The project looked at dementia in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, and especially at the […]

If you are interested in evaluating your health and wellbeing work, Public Health England has produced summaries of lots of the resources that are out there. A few are relevant to evaluating community and voluntary-sector projects. Each summary includes: what the guide covers; what it […]

There are standards of conduct, performance and ethics set out by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and all professionals on the HCPC Register must meet them. This includes treating people as an individual, being honest, and putting safety first. These are standards that […]

The role of faith groups is also essential. They play a vital part in meeting the need for greater integration and community cohesion. They are embedded within communities, well-able to recognise real local need and offer important services, particularly for marginalised and isolated groups. As […]

For Expo 2018, the biggest NHS-led event in the calendar, NHS England is making it easier to take part in Expo-related learning through a series of webinars before and after the event. You can take part in these whether or not you are going to […]

Men’s Health Forum, our partners in the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance are keen to find out more about what other organisations are doing to improve men and boys’ health – so that they can make sure their contacts in government and the NHS understand the […]

Public Health England have produced a short health advice video for pilgrims intending to travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage. There have been some cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) being exported to countries outside the Middle East with the […]

The Government plans to implement a new system of consent for organ donation to tackle a shortage of donors. Under the planned new system, everybody would be considered as a potential organ donor unless they have added their details to the NHS Organ Donor Register […]

The Government has asked the NHS to publish a Long Term Plan for how it will improve, with the new funding that it has been promised. It is currently collecting views and engaging with stakeholders to help it develop the plan – and that includes […]