Health and Care
The Future of Primary Care: National Voices’ 2023 Online Conference
National Voices, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an online national conference to bring together primary care leaders and teams, voluntary sector organisations and people with lived experience to discuss priority actions for the future of primary care. The focus of […]
Learning Event: Understanding the impact of children’s social care involvement on women’s health and wellbeing
The Maternity Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding a learning event to share key findings from their project focusing in depth on understanding women’s lived experiences of children’s social care involvement during pregnancy and the first two years of their […]
National Voices: Learning the Lessons – The unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
National Voices, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an online session on The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has exposed significant yet longstanding inequalities in our society that require us to stop, reflect, learn and to fundamentally change […]
Join the Parliamentary launch of ‘Dietary Beliefs and Identity in Care’ Research
V for Life and a coalition of organisations and individuals are taking action by launching the Special Dietary Network in Parliament on 23 May 2023, bringing together representatives from different faiths and beliefs who have an interest in making sure that their diets and identities […]
Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey
The Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey (U16 CPES) aims to understand the experiences of cancer care among children under the age of 16 and their parents/carers, in England. Alongside Picker, NHS England have developed this survey to help understand and improve cancer care nationally […]
ChurchWorks for Wellbeing Conference, 18 May 2023
ChurchWorks are holding a Wellbeing Conference, aimed at church and ministry leaders and congregants. The conference is aimed at those who would benefit from understanding more about resources and training that are available to support them in their response to the mental health crisis, connecting […]
The Homeless Health Consortium: Resources for conversations about health
The Homeless Health Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have published resources a suite of resources aimed at supporting staff and volunteers to have conversations about health, as part of their Bridging the Health Gap project. People experiencing homelessness face some of […]
Samaritans: Insights from experience : economic disadvantage, suicide and self-harm
The Samaritans, with partners from the Suicide Prevention Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have been exploring the relationship between economic disadvantage, suicide risk and self-harm in people’s own words. They heard experiences relating to difficulty with housing, issues around social care, […]
Homeless Health Consortium: Preparing for the risk of suicide
The Homeless Health Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have been working on a project on suicide prevention. They have produced a range of resources to support practitioners and their organisations to be better equipped to work with people who are at […]
Friends Families & Travellers: Make energy grants available to all
Friends Families & Travellers, fellow members of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are asking people to join them to make a stand by asking your MP to expand the energy support available, to include Romany and Traveller families living on roadside camps and liveaboard […]