Health and Care

Homeless Link, part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance has published its 2025 Unhealthy State of Homelessness report, featuring new data and analysis on the health outcomes linked to homelessness. The report shows how homelessness worsens physical and mental health, while housing and support […]

Learning Disability England and the Valuing People Alliance, part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, are inviting people to join a free online webinar on Friday 28th November 2025, 1:00–2:00pm, to learn about the latest updates to the Accessible Information Standard. The session is […]

NHS England is calling on young carers to share their experiences, with a programme led by young carers, for young carers. NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, and a group of young carers are working together to improve […]

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned NHS England to undertake a review into LGBT+ health inequalities in April 2025. The review aims to identify barriers to healthcare access and areas where LGBT+ communities experience poorer healthcare experience and outcomes. The review […]

NHS England has announced that the results of the Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey (U16 CPES) 2024 will be published on Thursday 6th November. If you are interested in hearing more about the national results of the 2024 survey, you can sign up to […]

Sands and Tommy’s Maternity Consortium is pleased to share their insight report, Not Just an Option: Interpreting as an Essential Component of Safe Maternity and Neonatal Care. The report explores the systemic issues impacting access to professional interpreting in maternity and neonatal care. This report draws on […]

The National Cancer Patient Experience Survey (NCPES) 2024 qualitative thematic report was published 10th September 2025. You can access the report on the NCPES website . The report includes findings from a thematic analysis of the open questions asked in the survey, asking patients what […]

UKHSA invites you to join them for the launch of the coproduced report ‘Insights from people with lived experience to inform inclusive approaches to health protection’. Do you want to hear from lived experience inclusion health experts on what works to address extreme health inequalities? […]

The Suicide Prevention Consortium, fellow members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, are looking for views from organisations, particularly those who have a focus on or interest in suicide prevention, on which aspects of the NHS 10 Year Plan could benefit suicide prevention and […]

Since October 2023, the “Ethnicity and Unequal Ageing: Experiences in Rotherham and Sheffield” project,  a major research project funded under the Economic and Social Research Council’s Inclusive Ageing Programme, and led from the University of Sheffield, has been addressing the urgent need for evidence on […]