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C4PC launches new report: Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building
The report explores a place-based approach in York and Wakefield and examines how best to align link worker and capacity building activities with optimum success. It highlights best practice and offers helpful tools and guidance to health and local authority...
Link worker guides: musical social prescriptions
These new guides are primarily written for link workers, but will also provide an insight into the subject for people who are assigned a link worker, as well as their carers and family members. The full-length guide includes; details of the benefits of music for...
The National Centre for Creative Health launch – 9th March
The National Centre for Creative Health has been formed in response to Recommendation 1 in the Creative Health report, the result of a two-year inquiry led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The National Centre for Creative Health will...
National Academy for Social Prescribing announces partnership to build evidence base
The Academy’s Strategic Plan, A Social Revolution in Wellbeing, indicates that there is a large and growing evidence base supporting the benefits of social prescribing for people’s health and wellbeing, but that it is not comprehensive nor always easy to access. The...
The benefits of spending time outside – webinar
The webinar, available on the Life Change Trust website, looks at the findings of an evaluation of six Get Outdoors projects. The evaluation, by Outside the Box, looks in detail at the six different projects, what kind of activities they undertook, and the impact the...
Wellbeing and social prescribing with Dr Radha Modgil
In the first of a three part blog, which can be found on the National Academy for Social Prescribing website, Dr Radha Modgil reflects on the power of connectivity. Dr Radha writes about connectivity often being the first step on the journey to improving wellbeing and...
Free online training from Playlist for Life for UK universities and colleges
This course has been made available free to health and social care students at universities and colleges around the UK for the remainder of the academic year 2020/2021. The online course takes about 2 hours to complete and gives students an engaging introduction to...
Community Covid Vulnerable and Shielding Research Survey
The Community COVID Research Project is keen to hear from professionals, such as link workers or other key workers who interact with vulnerable and shielding members of the community to find out how they are experiencing COVID, and what the best ways are to share...
Pre-memory assessment support project – get involved
DCAN are working with NHS England to improve the pre memory assessment process. We are working to understand what is important people who are waiting for a memory assessment for themselves, their families, partner or friends through online focus groups and surveys. We...
Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your access to speech and language therapy?
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists wants to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic and the UK-wide lockdown (March-June 2020) has affected people’s access to speech and language therapy. The RCSLT has designed a survey to gain a better understanding of...
The Personal Checklist from Young Dementia UK
Over 42,000 people are living with young onset dementia in the UK. Dementia may be overlooked in younger people as symptoms are sometimes confused with those of other conditions such as depression, menopause and stress. The Personal Checklist was created to help...
Healthy communities together – The King’s Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund
Six partnerships are participating in phase one of Healthy communities together. Each partnership includes voluntary organisations, NHS organisations and local authorities. In phase one, lasting nine months from February 2021, they will develop plans and test...
Enhanced Health in Care Homes: A guide for care homes
This document explains what the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) programme is, how to make it work in the best way possible for people living in care homes and the people who care for them, and what everyone involved can expect from it. The guide hopes to reassure...
The Social Care Inquiry
The Social Care Future Inquiry group are leading a inquiry into social care and want you to be involved. There are lots of ways to feed in and share what you think!
Banking challenges
Visits to the bank, telephone banking and online banking all provide their own challenges. The feedback received about the banking difficulties that people affected by dementia experience was put to a vote, and the ones with the most votes will be investigated...
The Care Quality Commission care survey
The Care Quality Commission is keen to hear from people aged 55 and over in connection with their experiences of care services. Research undertaken by the Care Quality Commission shows that people in this age group: are most likely to believe giving feedback on care...
Tell us your experience of pre-diagnosis
Our new survey seeks to understand what matters to people whilst awaiting a possible dementia diagnosis. With waiting times growing longer after Covid-19, it's never been more important to understand how support can be improved for people pre-diagnosis. Our project...
Health Foundation launch Covid 19 Inquiry Call for Evidence
The Health Foundation has launched a call for evidence from a wide range of sources to consider how COVID has impacted on peoples existing health conditions and inequalities to support their COVID-10 impact inquiry. The questions they are looking into are: What was...
Race Equality Foundation: Better support for BAME people with dementia
The Race Equality Foundation projects, funded by Department of Health and Social Care COVID-19 dementia programme, which focussed on support for black, Asian and minority ethnic people are coming to an end. Dementia is the most common pre-existing condition for people...
The impact of public involvement in health research – research paper
A new research article looking at public and patient involvement in research has been published. It reviews the way the impact of involvement is measured and calls for more acknowledgement of: different rationales for public involvement, and how the desire to measure...
Lessons from COVID19: Report on public services launched
The Public Services Committee have launched a new report, titled, A critical juncture for public services: lessons from COVID-19.
This report looks at how public services have responded to COVID-19 and what lessons can be learned from the pandemic.