Health and Care

Our fellow partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance  the Tommy and Sands Maternity Consortium, are hosting a free virtual event from 1-3:30pm on 9th November, to share examples of good practice from Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems (LMNS) working in partnership with Voluntary […]

Barnardo’s, fellow partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published a new report: The Missing Link: social prescribing for children and young people The report examines the current evidence around the benefits of social prescribing for children and young people and brings it […]

Solving Together is a partnership that enables lots of people with different ideas and views to put forward ideas. From Monday 9th October to Friday 3rd November 2023, Solving Together will focus on Children and Young People’s Mental Health with a series of conversations that […]

Race Equality Foundation, fellow partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance would like to highlight  details of national online survey on women’s menstrual health, contraception, pregnancy planning, and menopause.  It’s a vital survey to capture the view of women on this important health topics.  […]

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 […]