Health and Care

FaithAction is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to hold a roundtable discussion, focused on how faith-based organisations are offering holistic care to people in their communities, including spiritual or pastoral support.  We’ll be asking: what is happening, and what works best? We’re looking […]

Friends, Families and Travellers, along with Homeless Link, have been asked by NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a new Inclusion Health Audit Tool for Primary Care Networks, which helps networks to assess their current work in tackling health inequalities faced by Inclusion Health […]

Around 2.2 million people, aged 16 and over, who are registered with a GP practice in England will receive an invitation to take part in Europe’s biggest patient experience survey in the new year. The invitations go out mainly by letter to a sample of […]

FaithAction are working on a project led by the Carers Trust for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about carers in transition – looking at how carers can be best supported to plan for when they are able to provide less or no […]

NAVCA, the national membership body for local sector support and development organisations, are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to conduct some research into partnerships between NHS Trusts and organisations within the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. More specifically, the research aims to […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently published a comprehensive scoping review on the role of the arts in improving health and wellbeing. A review of over 900 academic publications from 2000-2019 shows strong evidence of the arts facilitating both the prevention and promotion, and the management […]

Carers UK have released new research looking at the likelihood people have of being a carer in adult life. Helen Walker, Chief Executive of Carers UK, said: “Many of us don’t expect to become an unpaid carer but the reality is two in three of […]

NHS England and NHS Improvement is offering coaching for Patient and Public Voice (PPV) partners as part of its ongoing support offer. They are offering places to people who are currently involved in the work of NHS England and NHS Improvement or are supporting health […]

UK Youth, a member of the Young People’s Health Partnership, have been commissioned by NHS England to conduct a scoping study to learn about programmes for young people involving First Aid, Mental Health First Aid and the life skills that underpin these, as well as […]

The What Works Centre for Wellbeing, supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, have announced a programme of free workshops around the country designed especially for small to medium-sized charities, starting in February 2020. Introductory workshops: Understanding, improving and measuring wellbeing The workshops will cover […]