Health and Care

Hospice UK, part of the Palliative and End of Life Care Consortium, fellow members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have an opportunity for people with a life-limiting condition and unpaid carers, staff and volunteers providing care and support to people with a life-limiting […]

Special Care Dentistry involves the improvement of the oral health of individuals and groups in society who have a physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, emotional or social impairment or disability or, more often, a combination of these factors. As part of a London-wide review for […]

Sehhat are holding a webinar launch of their new report looking at the impact of suicide in the Punjabi community. In this webinar you will be able to hear from an individual with lived experiences and the findings from the report. You can register and […]

Samaritans, lead of the Suicide Prevention Consortium, part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have published a new report responding to the government’s Suicide Prevention strategy. The Suicide Prevention Strategy for England, published in September 2023, makes clear that the actions the government has […]

National Voices, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have launched a new report, Addressing inequalities in clinical trials. Following on from their previous report, English literacy as a barrier to participation in clinical trials, which focused on how Patient Information Leaflets should be […]

Following the recent success of the Creative English for Health programmes which were delivered in Birmingham and Greater Manchester, the team have recently begun training volunteers in three Birmingham hubs, who are taking part in a limited pilot programme which focuses on Infant Health. The […]

The NHS Constitution empowers patients, staff and the public to know and exercise their rights to help drive improvements in quality, efficiency and responsiveness throughout the NHS. Every 10 years the Secretary of State is required to review the NHS Constitution. This consultation covers a […]

The Suicide Prevention Consortium and Samaritans have launched a new report; Exploring experiences of accessing for support alcohol issues and suicidal ideation This report highlights the importance of the “no wrong door approach”. The report finds that individuals are still turned away when healthcare professionals […]

Age UK has released a new report ‘I just feel that no one cares’, presenting the latest research findings on older people’s mental health. The research was conducted in September 2023 and included an online survey that was completed by over 17,000 older people, aged […]

The Nuffield Trust and the King’s Fund have published the latest British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) results. The survey has revealed public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. According to the latest findings, for the first time in the 41-year history of the […]