Health and Care
Review into the Impact of Charges to Overseas Visitors
The Department of Health (DH) is carrying out a review into the impacts of recent changes to the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations. These changes have meant that non-exempt overseas visitors are now additionally chargeable for NHS services (excluding primary care services) when they […]
Last chance to respond: Consultation on health for BME groups
NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, is inviting responses to the draft of a new quality standard, ‘Promoting health and preventing premature mortality among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups’. This document sets out what quality care should look like, and […]
Introducing ‘opt-out’ consent for organ and tissue donation in England
FaithAction is urging faith groups to respond to the government’s consultation about organ and tissue donation. The government wants to know what people think about proposed changes in which people are considered willing to be an organ donor after their death, unless they have ‘opted […]
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SAFE – Supporting Affected Families from Extremism
SAFE is an independent, dedicated family support service that specialises in tackling extremism and terrorism of all kinds. Michael Evans, who lost his brother to extremism after he left his family home in Buckinghamshire to join Al-Shabaab in 2011, is leading the SAFE project to […]
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B Positive Choir launch new single encouraging blood donation
This week, the B Positive Choir launched their Christmas single Rise Up. The single aims to encourage more people to rise up by becoming blood donors. B Positive is a group of 60 singers from across England who live with sickle cell disease, with their […]
How charities’ work improves health
A new report, Voluntary Sector Action on the Social Determinants of Health, is designed to help charities that do not have a health focus understand the evidence about how their social action improves people’s health. The report, produced by the Institute for Health Equity, developed […]
Children and Young People’s mental health – Green Paper
The Department of Health and the Department for Education have published a Green Paper, Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. This sets out the ambition that children and young people who need help for their mental health will be able to get it […]
Review into the impact of charges for NHS services to overseas visitors
The Department of Health is carrying out a review into the impacts of recent changes to the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations. These changes have meant that non-exempt overseas visitors are now additionally chargeable for NHS services (other than primary care) when they are […]
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What Now? Questions to ask after a terminal diagnosis
Following research with more than 600 people living with a terminal illness or caring for someone at the end of life, Compassion in Dying has published an innovative new booklet: What now? Questions to ask after a terminal diagnosis. What now? is designed to help people ask questions and […]
Department of Health Voluntary Sector Update and News
The November 2017 edition of this monthly newsletter from the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England is now available here. If you are interested in health and care news and would like to subscribe to the newsletter, please email [email protected].