Health and Care

The Association of Mental Health Providers, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have published research examining the relationships between statutory and voluntary sector mental health organisations. It finds that voluntary and community organisations provide essential support for people’s mental health that complements what […]

NHSX and NHS Digital are committed to working with patients to ensure they meet the goal of driving better health and care outcomes through the use of digital, data and technology. Their teams are responsible for setting digital and data strategy, policy and standards, and for developing […]

Health Literacy UK and Stoke-on-Trent City Council Public Health invite you to join them at a seminar on the 10th of October , which will focus on the importance of health literacy to children and their carers. The seminar will include the presentation of research […]

In April, The Young People’s Health Partnership collaborated with the NHS Youth Forum, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, iWill and the NHS to organise and run a youth voice summit, where young people from around the country met with senior leaders in […]

Carers UK published the results of their State of Caring survey this week after receiving a record number of respondents this year, with over 8000 people, including 7500 current carers, completing it. Some of the key findings are as follows: Almost 2 in 5 (39%) carers […]

The Same Day Emergency Care Programme Board is looking for two Patient and Public Voice Partners. All applicants must have a commitment to improving patient & carer experience in Urgent and Emergency Care and to developing excellent public participation, as well as an understanding of […]

Europe’s largest survey of patients has been published and shows that more than eight out of ten still have a good experience of their GP practice and more than nine in ten have confidence and trust in the professionals they saw or spoke to. Feedback […]

The NHS Long Term Plan set the ambition that every part of the country should be an integrated care system by 2021. It encourages all organisations in each health and care system to join forces, so they are better able to improve the health of […]

In January, NHS England and NHS Improvement committed to publish an implementation framework for the NHS Long Term Plan, setting out further detail on how the commitments in that document will be delivered. The framework has now been published at www.longtermplan.nhs.uk. Local systems are working […]

Change have recently developed, with people with learning disabilities and Skills for Care, a set of resources to support people with learning disabilities and support staff to talk about mental health. For more information and to view the resources, please visit www.skillsforcare.org.uk