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NHS England commissioned Dr Bill Kirkup CBE to undertake an independent review into maternity and neonatal services at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (NHSFT) in February 2020, following concerns about the quality and outcomes of care. His findings detail the poor maternity 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 […]

This year, the ever more popular national Inter Faith Week takes place from 12th to 19th November. This will be its 15th year. The Week’s aims are to: Strengthen good inter faith relations at all levels Increase awareness of the different and distinct faith communities […]

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 Children & Young People Now Awards have become the gold standard for everyone working with children, young people and families. Now in their 18th year, the awards are a source of pride and recognition for all those working to improve the lives of children […]

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 […]