Health and Care

The Network for Pastoral, Spiritual, and Religious Care in Health (formerly the Healthcare Chaplaincy Faith & Belief Group) has published guidance on the authorisation, registration, and endorsement procedures of the mainstream chaplaincy religion and belief organisations in the NHS and a practical toolkit for NHS […]

The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, together with Healthwatch and Versus Arthritis, have developed a set of Health and Wellbeing Resources packs – producing one for each local health and care system in England to give you access to locally specific information that can help you engage with […]

Public Health England has published a review of Health Inequalities in Older Populations in Rural and Coastal Areas, together with a blog article supporting the launch. The research provides evidence on the nature of health inequalities experienced by older populations in coastal and rural areas, together with […]

In July, the Government published the Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s , inviting the public to give their views on a series of proposals to tackle preventable ill health. The paper covers areas such as: new technologies in health care; challenges […]

On Friday the 20th September NHS England will be providing a webinar on Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP)/Integrated Care Systems (ICS) – an update from the Voluntary Partnership team (10:30am – 11:30am). On this webinar, Voluntary and Community organisations will give an update on some […]

NCVO, which supports the voluntary sector, has a new blog post outlining key learning from  nine Sustainability and Transformation Partnership sites that they followed in relation to how charities can influence health service transformation. They will also be presenting and discussing this in detail in […]

The Local Health and Care Record Programme (LHCR) is designed to support local areas that are already adopting best practice in the collection, protection and ethical use of health and care data to go further, faster and encourage others to follow swiftly in their footsteps. The LHCR is […]

FaithAction’s Rodie Garland has been interviewed for The Elder Magazine on the subject of faith and dementia. The content of this interview has been reproduced in full below with the permission of Elder. The original article can be found here: https://www.elder.org/the-elder/how-faith-communities-support-living-with-dementia/ How can faith and […]

The Government is seeking your views on proposals to tackle the causes of preventable ill health in England. We know that our health is shaped by the environment in which we live, the choices we make, and the services we receive – and all of […]

Link Age Southwark has been building friendships between older people and volunteers within the local community for over 25 years, to reduce the effects of social isolation and loneliness. They offer befriending and a variety of groups including exercise, bridge, reading, singing, yoga, lunch, reminiscence […]