Health and Care

Have you analysed the difference made by public places and ‘bumping’ places designed for people to meet such as streets, squares, parks, play areas, village halls and community centres? Or the extent to which cafes, pubs, community gardens, events and festivals, markets, libraries, schools and […]

The Barnardo’s Health Team is hosting a webinar on 19th July, 1-3pm: ‘Changing the Future for Children, Young People, and their Families: Integrated Care Systems and the role of the VCSE Sector’ The webinar will hear from: Sir Professor Michael Marmot, Director of the UCL […]

The Homeless Health Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have produced a toolkit to support vaccine uptake amongst people experiencing homelessness. The toolkit contains: an information leaflet that is either downloadable as a PDF, or the option to order a printed batch […]

FaithAction sit alongside Carers UK and Carers Trust as part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance. This year, Carers UK are delivering a project looking at carers assessments and carers breaks. They are interested in gathering evidence from a range of organisations who support […]

Next week is Loneliness Awareness Week – The week, which is hosted by the Marmalade Trust, is in its sixth year and runs from 13-17 June 2022 and will be highlighting the many and varied instances when we feel lonely to normalise the feeling – […]

NHS England are looking for people to contribute to their Long COVID lived experience to help improve Long COVID services. The programme sets the national policy and commissioning standards for Post COVID services. Working with people with lived experience is vital to ensuring their work […]

ADAPT have produced a toolkit that will provide enhanced care for South Asian communities – many of whom receive significantly less effective dementia care from statutory services compared to their counterparts from White British communities. People from South Asian communities are at greater risk of […]

NHS England have launched a public consultation on the draft guidance for Working in Partnership with People and Communities. This will support the new Integrated Care Boards, NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to build effective, positive, purposeful and enduring partnerships with communities to improve […]

NHS England are holding ‘The Big Conversation’, an event taking place virtually on Wednesday 11th May and Thursday 12th May. The Big Conversation is an entirely free, virtual (online) two-day initiative, convened by the NHS Horizons team in collaboration with Aqua (the Advancing Quality Alliance), […]

National Voices will be holding an all-day conference on 23rd June exploring the topic of Integrated Care Systems. National Voices want to see better, more equal outcomes for people, especially those not currently well supported by existing models. They also want to see more coordinated […]