Health and Care

Barnardo’s is hosting its first Children & Young People’s Mental Health in Wales webinar on March 16, at 1:00-3:00pm. Recent Government policy has advocated a whole system vision for developing mental health, well-being and support services for children, young people and their families across Wales […]

The Race and Health Observatory recently published a report on ethnic health inequalities, focussing on mental health services, maternal and neonatal healthcare, digital inclusion and access to health services, genetic testing and genomic medicine studies and the NHS workforce, which REF contributed to by holding […]

The Experience of Care team at NHS England and NHS Improvement lead on the work to embed co-production across all clinical programmes and workstreams.  The Advisory Board has evolved from a task and finish group which was established following the recommendation from the evaluation of […]

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a public consultation on a set of far-reaching proposals to improve and strengthen the UK clinical trials legislation to make the UK the best place to research and develop safe and innovative medicines. Clinical trials […]

Groundswell, part of the Homeless Health Consortium, a VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance group, have launched the Listen Up! Hub. It’s inhumane that people experiencing homelessness face barriers to healthcare and are more likely to die young. The Listen Up! hub collates raw reports on […]

The Suicide Prevention Consortium, part of the Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published a briefing, Insights from experience: alcohol and suicide, outlining findings and recommendations from their lived experience work looking at experiences of alcohol, suicide and self-harm, and a two-page summary. Based on survey […]

Healthwatch England has joined forces with a coalition of user-led national organisations to highlight how the NHS and social care fail to support people’s accessible communication needs. By law, all publicly funded health and social care providers must fully comply with the Accessable Information Standard […]

The Valuing People Alliance are holding an online discussion group for their digital inclusion project. They would like to invite people with learning disabilities, their family members, members of their support staff and other professionals to a discussion on their experiences of accessing health services […]

The government published a white paper yesterday on joining up care for people, places and populations. The paper is part of a wider set of mutually reinforcing reforms: the Adult Social Care Reform white paper, People at the Heart of Care and the Health and […]

The government has announced leads for two separate independent reviews to tackle health disparities. Findings from these reviews will form part of wider plans to level up the country and reduce existing inequalities through the Health Disparities White Paper which will aim to enable people […]