Health and Care

Groundswell have launched a new COVID-19 information leaflet for people experiencing homelessness. It contains up-to-date guidance on the current situation and how we can all continue to stay safe, as well as advice from Groundswell’s peers with lived experience of homelessness. It is in double-sided […]

The Association of Mental Health Providers, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are looking for people to join their Lived Experience Advisory Group. They would like people with living/learnt experience of poor mental health and illness, including SMI, or an unpaid carer, who […]

The Lowdown and NHS England have produced a guide and held a webinar on the COVID-19 vaccine and fertility. The Lowdown teamed up with NHS colleagues to host an online chat with Reproductive Immunologist Dr Viki Male, and Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist Dr Fatima Husain, to discuss the […]

The cross government Green Social Prescribing Programme team are hosting the ‘Green Social Prescribing Conference: How to Embed and Scale Green Social Prescribing’. It has been one year since the launch of the green social prescribing programme to prevent and tackle mental ill-health and they […]

The NHS England and NHS Improvement Insight and Feedback Team are recruiting three Lived Experience Partners to bring a patient experience perspective to their Long-COVID Patient Experience Research Working Group. The Insight and Feedback team have commissioned a research project, aimed at understanding the experiences […]

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care recently announced the publication of a Digital Health and Care Plan in spring 2022. The publication will set out a delivery plan for the things  already committed to within the NHS Long Term Plan, as well […]

The Centre for Ageing Better have produced a set of downloadable ‘evidence cards’ that highlights the contributions of and shocking inequalities experienced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups approaching retirement age. Older generations are becoming more diverse than ever. But also more unequal. There’s […]

The NHS England and NHS Improvement Insight & Feedback Team are recruiting 3 Lived Experience Partners to bring a patient experience perspective to their Long-COVID Patient Experience Research Working Group. The Insight and Feedback team have commissioned a research project, aimed at understanding the experiences […]

NHS East of England is hosting a Community Conversations webinar exploring Digital and the role it plays in health inequalities on Wednesday 27th April, 1:00-2:00pm. Gain an insight into what it was like for patients in primary care during the pandemic. Understand how a systematic […]

Locality, a partner in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, has produced two pieces of work as part of their role in the Alliance. Creating greater collaboration between Primary Care Networks and VCSE organisations. Locality has worked with Integrated Care Systems, Primary Care Networks, GPs, and […]