Health and Care

Members of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance’s Suicide Prevention Consortium, the National Suicide Prevention Alliance (NSPA) and Support After Suicide Partnership (SASP), have published a resource which provides introductory guidance for professionals and organisations on involving people with lived experience in suicide prevention and bereavement support, […]

The Sands and Tommy’s Joint Policy Unit is focussed on achieving policy change so that fewer babies die, and inequalities in baby loss eliminated. Their new report, Saving babies’ lives 2023: A report on progress, brings together data from different sources for the first time […]

Race Equality Foundation are leading on an innovative project to address health inequalities in high blood pressure among Black African and Caribbean communities. Together with Smart Health Solutions, Younger Lives and Blood Pressure UK, the project will be working to address high blood pressure amongst […]

Nacro have published a new report highlighting the barriers faced by people coming out of prison in registering with a GP and accessing healthcare. The research examined responses from more than 50 GP surgeries and found that 66% require proof of address and therefore couldn’t […]

Sheffield Hallam University, along with UCL, Innovations in Dementia and NHS Leeds CCG are working on a research project, Living Alone with Dementia: Managing without informal support to contact and navigate services. Are you living alone with no informal support? The project is about understanding […]

Carers Trust is running a survey to understand unpaid carers’ experiences of accessing support. They will use the findings to raise the voices of carers as publicly as possible and influence the Government to make positive changes. The survey is for UK-based unpaid carers aged […]

The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is a vital cornerstone of a progressive health and care system, as stated in the ICS Design Framework, and the sector is key to enabling the transformation and achieving the ambitions ICSs are striving for. NHS England […]

On Wednesday, 5th July, the NHS will turn 75 years old. This significant milestone is an opportunity to reflect on the past and look ahead to the future. NHS England has asked the NHS Assembly which serves as a guiding coalition to the NHS England […]

The Department of Health and Social Care would like to highlight that the offer of a first and second dose of COVID vaccine for those at lower risk of severe illness will end on 30th June 2023. There are eight weeks left for people who […]

Homeless Link, part of the Homeless Health Consortium in the VSCE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding a hybrid conference on homelessness and mental health, taking place online and at America Square Conference Centre, at 10am on 19th June 2023. According to their recent Unhealthy […]