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VSNW Health Bulletin
The aim of the VSNW Health Bulletin is to keep members of VSNW's Health and Social Care Network up to date with relevant VSNW work.
To receive the Health Bulletin, and join the Health & Social Care Network, please email health@vsnw.org.uk with the subject line "Join Health Network".
Latest issues of VSNW's Health Bulletin:
Health Bulletin 15
Included in this edition are:
►Briefing #34 Analysis of the Voluntary Sector Social Care Workforce in the NW
►Autism Strategy ‘Fulfilling and Rewarding Lives’ Implementation Consultation
►NHS Principles and Rules for Cooperation and Competition
►Personalisation
►Refreshing the National Carers Strategy
►Supporting People to Live and Die Well
►Third Sector Investment Programme
Health Bulletin 14
Included in this edition are:
►Update - Health White Paper
►Commission on the Funding of Care and Support
►‘Enough is Enough! Action Against Homophobia’ Campaign
►Equality Act 2010: What do I need to know?
►Personalisation
►Skills for Care: Helping with CQC Inspection Outcomes
Health Bulletin 13
Included in this Bulletin:
• Access to Volunteering Fund
• Commissioning Health Care in Prisons
• Ethnic Minority Cancer Awareness Week: 3rd-10th July
• NW Regional Offender Health Team – Directory of VCS Organisations
• Social Values
• Skills for Care: Work smart, work safe – combating violence against care staff
• Events and Training
Health Bulletin 12
The latest VSNW Health Bulletin includes
• Update
• Grants up for grabs for Lancashire’s Voluntary Groups
• Health Foundation – Closing the Gap
• Important changes to CQC’s assessment of adult social services
• National Audit of Psychological Therapies for Depression
• Personalisation – A Rough Guide
• Review of access to NHS by foreign nationals – consultation proposals
• Roll out of improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT)
• Skills for Care common induction standards are refreshed
• Events and Training
Health Bulletin 11
Included in this edition
• 5-year Plan for the Regulation of Mental Health Services
• DWP - Care First Careers - £1000 for eligible young people recruited
• Inclusion Health: improving primary care for socially excluded people
• National Audit Office: Successful Commissioning Toolkit
• Progress For Providers Tool
• ‘Reaching Out’ Report: Understanding the Health Attitudes of Harder to Reach Groups in the North West
• The NHS Commissioning Environment: A Guide for Third Sector Organisations
Health Bulletin 10
The Tenth Health Bulletin includes:
- Asylum Seekers and Health Care Provision in the North West
- BME ‘Training For All’ Project Website Launch
- Care and Support Conference Report
- “From the Ground Up - A guide to integrated care design and delivery”
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- New Food Coop Advisor for North West
- Review of Access to NHS by Foreign Nationals
- Skills for Care Accolades 2010
- The State of Care in England – the Care Quality Commission Annual Report
- Events / Training
Health Bulletin Nine
The ninth edition includes items on:
• NHS Operating Framework
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – Third Sector Engagement
• Conservative Draft Health Manifesto
• NMDS Skills for Care Briefing
• Volunteering in Health and Social Care Fund Information Events
• Adult Learners Week Awards
• New Certification Scheme for Health and Social Care Information
• North West Mental Wellbeing Survey
• Swine Flu Update
Health Bulletin 8
Included in this Health Bulletin:
• Personal Health Budgets: NW Pilot Sites and Programme
• NHS 2010–2015: from good to great, preventative, people-centred, productive
• Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund
• Age Equality in Health and Social Care Consultation Events
Health Bulletin 7
The latest issue of the VSNW Health Bulletin includes:
• Delivering Social Value: Strengthening our Communities
• New Alcohol Profiles for England
• Challenge Fund – Health Work and Wellbeing
• TOPIC: Inter professional working for older people in the community
• Review of Age Discrimination and Age Equality in the provision of health and social care
• National Skills Academy for Social Care
• Supporting People Review 2009
• Social Enterprise Investment Fund for Health and Social Care
• Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment
• New Declaration Enshrines Acute Mental Health Care Quality for All
• Mind publish report on Mental Health Care for Refugees and Asylyum Seekers
• Interim Report of the Commission on Personalisation
Health Bulletin 6
The latest edition of the VSNW Health Bulletin includes
► ARC's Training for All project
► Green Paper: Shaping the Future of Care Together consultation
► Skills for Care's 1000 Voices Project
► Taskforce on violence against women and girls
► Innovate NoW: NHS Regional Innovation Fund
VSNW Health Bulletin #5
VSNW Health Bulletin Issue 4
VSNW Health Bulletin Issue 3
VSNW Health Bulletin Issue 2
VSNW Health Bulletin Issue 1
Featured Event
The Health White Paper Consultation
CONSULTATION FULLY BOOKED
The White Paper on Health has the potential to create one of the biggest changes to the structure and function of the NHS since its creation in 1948. Within the White Paper there are 5 consultations which are all open until early October. Although the ‘what’ in the White Paper has largely been decided, the ‘how’ is very much still being shaped.
Latest News
New apprenticeships for VCS organisations
Skills-Third Sector has carried out an extensive consultation with a wide range of organisations to determine the needs of the voluntary and community sector around apprenticeships, and will be developing new apprenticeship frameworks as a result.
Influencing the Spending Review - update
Latest updates for the departmental structural reform plans available
Future North West consultation now open
A document outlining the agreed strategic priorities of the North West based on the Regional Strategy consultation work over the last two years is now open for consultation until 8 October 2010.
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have proposed a potential £750m reduction in Big Lottery Funding to VCS groups over the next five years
