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The voluntary and community sector has made significant contributions to health and wellbeing, often reaching areas and communities that have been difficult to reach by mainstream health and social care providers. One East Midlands aims to keep the voluntary and community sector informed about these changes and where possible contribute to policy and strategy development.

Care Act 2014 statutory guidance for implementation

Loaded: Tue, 04/11/2014 - 12:01

The Department of Health has published the statutory guidance to support implementation of Part One of the Care Act 2014, which sets out how the Act will work in practice when the first phase of the reforms comes into effect in April next year.

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Care.data – testing communication and engagement plans

Loaded: Tue, 04/11/2014 - 12:00

Over recent months NHS England has been working with voluntary sector colleagues and other stakeholders to understand how the care.data programme can best support patients to make informed choices about sharing their data.

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care.data Advisory Group Open Meeting

Loaded: Tue, 04/11/2014 - 11:57

Taking place on Wednesday 26 November from 6pm to 8pm in Central Manchester, the Chair of the care.data Advisory Group, Ciarán Devane, invites you to participate in their third public discussion about the work they are developing to inform and assure the programme known as ‘care.data’.

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Health Literacy Awareness for Primary Care - post event page

As part of the Regional Voices Department of Health Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnership, One East Midlands and Wellbeing East, hosted two Health Literacy awareness sessions in Nottingham on 30 September and Huntingdon on 8 October.

8 October East of England PPP Involvement Network Event – Post event page

Wellbeing East hosted the first East of England Patient and Public Participation Involvement Network event in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire on Wednesday 8 October.

Research Engaging with Patients and the Public Event

Loaded: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 09:10

Taking place on Wednesday 5 November from 9.30am to 3pm at Holywell Park Conference Centre, Loughborough, this event will bring together clinicians, researchers and the public.

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Vacancies on Public Health Research Programme’s Advisory Board

Loaded: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 09:09

The National Institute for Health Research has a number of vacancies on The Public Health Research Programme's Programme Advisory Board.

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Update from the Care Quality Commission

Loaded: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 09:07

In 2013 the Care Quality Commission set out its new purpose to make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and to encourage care services to improve. To make sure they focus on this, they proposed wide-ranging changes to how we regulate and inspect services.

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Social Action End of Life Support Fund

Loaded: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 09:06

The Cabinet Office Centre for Social Action and Hospice UK have launched a fund of up to £1million to support existing projects that engage volunteers in social action to enable continued social interaction and to improve the experience for people at end of life and their families.

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Carers Social Action Support Fund

Loaded: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 09:05

The Cabinet Office is inviting voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to apply for grants of £50,000 or more to support projects that improve the lives of unpaid family carers.

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