Health and Care

The Healthy Ageing Guide helps people to stay physically and mentally well by providing hints and tips on how to keep fit and independent. They currently have around 60,000 copies of the guide in storage and are very keen to make sure that they move […]

More than 17,500 women who gave birth last February across 129 NHS trusts have shared their experiences of care in the latest Maternity Services Survey from the Care Quality Commission. Overall, women reported positive experiences for many areas of their maternity care in 2018, including: being asked […]

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is reviewing its quality standard for dementia care. This will cover prevention of dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for adults with dementia. The new standard will replace the existing NICE quality […]

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have released the latest statistics for the number of people sleeping rough across England. Homeless Link – our partners in the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance – are commissioned by MHCLG to verify numbers used in […]

A new initiative that aims to deliver change in the social determinants of health has been launched. The Health Foundation has committed £15 million to deliver this change over seven years, supported by a number of other organisations including the Local Government Association; The National […]

Do you work with new parents? Public Health England have launched a new campaign offering support to parents on introducing solid foods to their baby. At the center of the campaign is the new weaning hub, which is full of NHS-approved advice and tips to […]

A resource for churches from Livability, to follow up its ‘Lifting the Lid – 6 Bible Studies exploring God’s heart for Mental Health.’ Together For Good is a course which explores five key topics: Abundant Life, Keys to Success, Richer Relationships, Creating Community and Finding […]

Young Carers Awareness Day is organised annually by Carers Trust to highlight the pressures and challenges experienced daily by young people as a result of caring for a member of their family. This year the focus for the day will be on how these pressures […]

On November 16th 2018, the UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee launched a new inquiry into the mental health of men and boys.  The Committee is inviting written submissions to the inquiry by Monday 18 February 2019 and has laid out terms of reference and the questions they […]

NHS England have asked NICE (the National Institute for Care Excellence) to develop a guidelines for shared decision-making between patients and healthcare professionals. The benefits of shared decision-making are increasingly being recognised, but it is not yet routinely practised. This guidelines will be aimed at […]