Health and Care

NHS England are holding three upcoming webinars to find out more about new funding to support ICSs, the voluntary and community sector and research partners.  The funding can be used for partnerships working together to increase diversity in research participation. As seen throughout recent years, […]

The 2022 Cancer Patient Experience Survey results have now been published. The survey allowed cancer patients to give feedback on the care they have received. This feedback is used to understand where care is working well and how NHS cancer services across England can be […]

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published an invitation to tender for their ‘Tell us about your care’ programme. The Tell us about your care partnerships with national charities, or a consortium of voluntary and community sector organisations with national coverage, that represent people who […]

The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first […]

The Association of Mental Health Providers (AMHP) have created an app with the purpose of highlighting the disparity of mental health service access between areas of England. The mapping contains CQC-registered mental health services, as well as the branches of AMHP member organisations, and AMHP […]

Clinks, fellow members of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, commissioned the charity Hibiscus to conduct research exploring the gendered experiences of Black, minoritised, and migrant women in contact with the criminal justice system. Based on focus groups and analyses of existing literature, evidence, and […]

The National Academy of Social Prescribing (NASP), along with other partners including NHS England, have published a new toolkit, following the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Programme launched in April 2021. This toolkit is designed to help communities, organisations and health professionals who are […]

The Maternity Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are working to coproduce resources to help healthcare professionals work with young parents on safer sleep for babies. The Lullaby Trust have developed two surveys to gather input into the development of the resources. Survey for […]

Carers Trust has published Time Away from Caring: Good Practice in carer breaks – a case study led report which highlights good practice in providing carer breaks. Carers Trust developed this report and resources as part of the VSCE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, alongside Carers […]

The British Red Cross and Campaign to End Loneliness, as Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities, are seeking to refresh their call to action on loneliness, looking ahead to the next five years. They want to develop a […]