All Voluntary sector/third sector articles – Page 2
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CommentSocial investment funding: a lifeline for the NHS
The potential for social investment has been demonstrated on an individual service level and now is the time for it to fuel ICS-wide innovation funding to support transformation and improve patient care, writes Katy Nex
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HSJ Local‘Hyperlocal’ approach unblocked recruitment, says trust
A community trust has reported unprecedented success filling stubborn vacancies by investing in ‘hyperlocal’ recruitment, which involves posting flyers through doors rather than posting adverts online.
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CommentThe charity sector is key to overcoming the NHS's organisational barriers
Charities overcome organisational barriers to embed their services, develop imaginative and proactive solutions to local issues, and are extremely effective at reaching the community’s most vulnerable members, writes Lisa Weaks
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CommentDigital exclusion is not solved by enabling online access alone
To make digitally enabled healthcare more inclusive requires co-producing services to meet the needs of various population groups with different levels of digital functionality for patients to choose from, writes Pritesh Mistry
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NewsNew job for Simon Stevens
Lord Simon Stevens has been appointed chair of Cancer Research UK, the charity has announced today.
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CommentThe changing roles of NHS trust chairs
Donna Hall gives a glimpse into the lives of the leaders of trusts and elaborates the complexity of working in partnership with social care, housing, the community and voluntary sector, and other local providers
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NewsUrgent call for help as ambulance trust faces relying on ‘first aiders’ during strikes
Medics and nurses have been urgently called upon to support London Ambulance Service during next week’s strike action, as it will otherwise have to rely on staff only able to provide ‘first aid’.
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CommentEmbracing volunteering is not a risk for the NHS
Volunteers from community organisations supported vulnerable people isolating in their homes, says Mark Lever
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CommentHow Healthwatch will help the NHS this winter
Community organisations rallied to help the NHS during the pandemic. With services facing another challenging winter, Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England, explains how Healthwatch are planning to lend a hand again
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CommentEnsuring ICSs do not create a postcode lottery for care
There have been attempts to outline and clarify how engagement and partnerships between the voluntary sector and ICSs should happen. Sam Mountney brings to light how it can be a real challenge for people affected with neurological conditions to be heard.
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CommentHow should the NHS respond to the cost of living crisis?
How is the cost of living crisis impacting patients, and what can the service do to help? Alastair McLellan reviews a timely debate
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NewsCuts would cause ‘significant damage’, warns departing mental health leader
Slashing mental health funding when 9.6 million people are either waiting for treatment or at risk of developing more serious problems would be ‘extremely concerning’, Mind’s outgoing chief has told HSJ.
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NewsICB chair: Slimming down boards will be ‘really difficult’
NHS England is right to question whether emerging integrated care boards with large memberships can be run effectively, a system leader in the capital has said.
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CommentVolunteers are not a ‘nice to have’ for NHS services
It is time for a more strategic approach to identify areas where volunteers play a crucial role for NHS trusts, writes Helen Gilburt
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HSJ PartnersWe cannot meet the mental health needs of cancer patients without breaking down silos
This article was authored by All.Can UK, a multi-stakeholder initiative involving patient groups and industry experts, and has been fully funded by the All.Can UK funding partners: Bristol Myers Squibb (primary sponsor) and MSD (supporting sponsor). Together, the All.Can UK membership defined the focus of the article. Bristol Myers Squibb ...
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CommentMake local NHS charities your allies in the push for service recovery
The NHS and health voluntary sector should unite to provide the extra support that staff and the health service need as they recover from the impact of the pandemic, writes Ellie Orton
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CommentFrom 'hospitality to health', enabling career change
Anchor institutions create local economies that serve people, place and planet, writes Conrad Parke
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HSJ InteractiveHow leaders can embed collaboration in integrated care systems
The culture of shared purpose and joint endeavour demonstrated during the pandemic will be needed to ensure the success of integrated care systems. An HSJ webinar explored how collaboration can be embedded. Alison Moore reports
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CommentThe removal of competition from the NHS is good news for the acute 'oligarchs'
The new legion of ICS leaders has some difficult problems to grapple with as the current acute system is akin to public sector oligarchs with a monopoly on staff, capital estate and coded activity, writes John Bennett
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NewsAcutely unwell prisoners left in ‘limbo’ due to lack of mental health beds
People needing acute mental health treatment are being left in prison for extended periods, HSJ can reveal.