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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.

Strategic planning health for health economies

Eleven financially-challenged health economies in England are to receive expert help with strategic planning in order to secure sustainable quality services for their local patients.

National Patient Safety Alerting System

In January the new National Patient Safety Alerting System was launched to strengthen the rapid dissemination of urgent patient safety alerts to healthcare providers via the Central Alerting System.

Consultation on changes to specialised services specifications

NHS England has launched a consultation on changes to 15 of its specialised services specifications and on a new document relating to specialised maternity services.

Tackling health inequalities

Public Health England is launching a national conversation about health inequalities to better understand the public’s perception and experience.

Evidence on why wellbeing matters

The Department of Health has published evidence on why wellbeing matters to health throughout someone’s life, and what policy makers can do about it.

Nominations for New Year Honours 2015

The Department of Health is calling for nominations for the New Year Honours 2015.

Clinical networks and senates, CCGs and public health

VONNE, our equivalent in the North East, has launched new and refreshed briefings to support the VCS in getting to know the developing health and care system. 

Lead provider framework

NHS England has launched the start of the process to create a framework agreement for commissioning support services.

CCGs receive funding for public and patient participation

NHS England is in the process of giving an extra £10,000 to each clinical commissioning group to help create additional capacity for existing local work on patient and public participation.

Grant programme for personal health budgets

NHS England has launched a grant programme for the VCS to help them gain the knowledge, capacity and expertise to inform their local communities about personal health budgets.

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