Health and Care

NDTi are pleased to announce they have just been awarded a contract with NHS England to continue organising and hosting the Older People’s Sounding Board. Their aim is to have 25 older people (over 50) from a variety of backgrounds who will meet monthly and […]

National Voices is committed to tackling racial inequalities in healthcare, health status, within organisations and across the charity sector. They have conducted a recent study that shows African/Caribbean women are four times more likely to die around pregnancy than other ethnicities and that African/Caribbean babies […]

Theos, Good Faith Partnership and ChurchWorks want to find out about and evidence the scale and scope of faith engagement in social prescribing across England in order to inform and promote future collaborations between faith groups and those working in social prescribing. FaithAction is supporting […]

The National Academy for Social Prescribing has launched The Power of Music Fund, supported by Music for All, Arts Council England and other donors, including members of the public, and has been kickstarted by a £1 million donation from The Utley Foundation. Music can be […]

Sands & Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit have started to consider how well the UK research environment is functioning for research related to pregnancy loss and baby deaths. Over the past months they have surveyed researchers and carried out a review of the available evidence. They […]

NHS England have announced a £10 million programme that will provide grant funding and tailored support to around 15 local systems to develop volunteering infrastructure within healthcare. Volunteering for Health will help deliver the recommendations of the NHS Volunteering Taskforce published in June this year. […]

The Health Equity and Inclusion Health division of UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is in the process of commissioning a lead supplier in the next few weeks, to carry out a programme of research with people with lived experience of health inequalities. There are two […]

The Valuing People’s Alliance, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are doing a project on virtual wards in order to understand the reasonable adjustments needed when someone with a learning disability or someone who is also autistic, has a virtual ward. Virtual wards […]

Race Equality Foundation (REF), part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have been funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to launch the nationwide SFSC: Stronger Relationships programme, aimed at supporting Black, Asian, and minority ethnic parents to reduce parental conflict. Whilst it […]

Samaritans provides the Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Suicide and Self-harm Prevention, which is made up of MPs and Members of the House of Lords. The APPG on Suicide and Self-harm Prevention aims to raise awareness within Parliament and encourage discussion and […]