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‘Good Health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing’ Playbook launched
The Playbook was launched by the National Academy for Social Prescribing, working as part of the Global Social Prescribing Alliance, at the panel session ‘Implementing Good Health and Wellbeing’. The publication, which is available online, showcases best practices in...
Alzheimer Europe virtual conference: early registration and call for abstracts
In preparation for the event, Alzheimer Europe is inviting abstract submissions for oral, quick oral and poster presentations on a wide range of subjects within the areas of Resilience and the COVID-19 pandemic, and Societal and medical perspectives. The call for...
WHO launches new platform for knowledge exchange on dementia
The Global Dementia Observatory Knowledge Exchange Platform shares key resources to support the implementation of the Global action plan on the public health response to dementia 2017-2025 and its seven action areas. This new tool provides a space for stakeholders to...
Dementia Action Week: Music for Dementia’s 7 days of action
Nearly 1 million people with dementia in the UK and their families are struggling to get the support and dignity of care that they deserve. In support of the Alzheimer’s Society's call to Cure the Care System, Music for Dementia has drawn up a challenge for people to...
Imperial College Health Partners invites you to share your experiences of diagnostic services
With the aim of developing an understanding of people’s experiences of diagnostic services, the ICHP is looking for people who are willing to take part in one-to-one phone or video interviews between 17th-28th May. An important part of this research is reaching...
The National Audit of Dementia invites people living with dementia to comment on new survey tool
The National Audit of Dementia measures the performance of general hospitals in England and Wales against standards relating to care delivery which are known to impact people with dementia during their hospital admission. With the aim of gathering more information...
Share your experience of remote assessment
The aim of the survey is to understand how people feel about undergoing assessments and/or receiving a diagnosis remotely. The short survey consists of 19 simple questions about your experience with the memory service. It will take 5-10 minutes to answer. Your...
The Buzz: new activities platform re-launched
Made possible through a Small Good Stuff grants scheme, new activity videos will be shared daily throughout April and beyond. The site already hosts over 100 different activity ideas with things like art, exercise, cooking and learning. Here’s a sample of what’s on...
Social Prescribing: Myth Buster Guide
Tackling areas such as funding, the role of link workers and the importance of strong evidence-based research and evaluation, the guide aims to debunk some myths associated with social prescribing by providing straight-forward information for the individuals or arts...
How to build public support to transform social care: research published
The Social Care Future movement believes that, in order to make progress in securing the desired future for social care, it is necessary to change the ways in which social care is currently spoken and thought about: as a broken system in crisis that ‘looked after...
Please give me space: initiative helps people with non-visible disabilities to socially distance
The Please give me space initiative is designed to alert members of the public that they should keep their distance from people wearing the ‘Please give me space’ symbol, as the wearer has difficulty maintaining social distance. The symbol can be downloaded free of...
Raising awareness of delirium
Delirium is a sudden change in mental state, which may be confusion, agitation, personality change, and difficulties with understanding and memory. It is also referred to as acute confusion. This new leaflet, Think Delirium, has recently been published. It is aimed...
C4PC report: Health Inequalities, the Covid Vaccination & Community-Centred Approaches
The report, ‘Health Inequalities, the Covid Vaccination & Community-Centred Approaches’, was produced following a Roundtable event chaired by Clenton Farquharson MBE and attended by 50 people from a wide range of healthcare and lived experience backgrounds. It is...
£1.8 million to fund 37 social prescribing projects through the Thriving Communities Programme
The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) and Arts Council England, Historic England and Natural England, NHS England and Improvement, Sport England, the Money and Pensions Service and NHS Charities Together, as part of the Thriving Communities Programme,...
C4PC report launched: Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building
Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building activity: A place-based approach in York and Wakefield was commissioned by NHS England and delivered by C4PC in collaboration with Community Catalysts, The National Association of Link Workers...
Music Is Life – a documentary
The documentary, filmed in Toronto, follows people living with dementia and Grammy Award-winning musician, Simon Law, as they write and compose a song about the meaning of music in their lives. Funded by the Alzheimer Society of Canada, the film is based on research...
Celebrate Social Prescribing Day – 18th March 2021
Whether you’ve set up a project or whether you know someone who’s been benefiting greatly from an online social prescribing initiative during the pandemic, you can get involved on the 18th of March 2021 on social media to share stories and let the world know how...
Orchestras in Healthcare report: almost two thirds of professional orchestras are working in health, wellbeing and social care across the UK
Conceived by Sarah Derbyshire (Chief Executive, Orchestras Live), Fiona Harvey (Education and Youth Ensembles Consultant, Association of British Orchestras) and Matthew Swann (Chief Executive, City of London Sinfonia) the report seeks to understand the scale and...
A colourful new guide to the dementia journey with music
The Musical Dementia Care Pathway explains visually why, how, who with, where, and when people might access music to help enhance quality of life through music. Based on the concept of the NHS Well Dementia Pathway, this engaging guide aims to be an invaluable...
Global Social Prescribing Alliance launched
The Alliance’s vision is to: “Enable thriving communities to deliver a social revolution for their health and wellbeing while generating value”. Its mission is to establish a global working group dedicated to the advancement of social prescribing through promotion,...
Museums on Prescription Research: Call for Participants
Museums on prescription is part of the rising social prescribing initiative aimed at linking patients with non-medical services and resources for the betterment of their overall health and well-being. Museum programming has a long-established reputation for being a...