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Healthwatch Birmingham receives national recognition and wins contract to continue providing service

July 03, 2019

Healthwatch Birmingham, the independent champion representing public and patients’ experiences of using local health and social care services, has just published its Annual Report 2018/2019. The report details the organisation’s most successful year to date: 59% more peopl

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Share your memories of John Taylor Hospice

April 04, 2018

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just launched an appeal for stories, reminiscences and memories from people who have some prior connection with the hospice. For more than 100 years JTH has helped and supported thousands of families and employed

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John Taylor Hospice unveils plan to extend services, increase volunteering and launch JTH shops

January 02, 2018

John Taylor Hospice, the UK’s only social enterprise hospice, has just unveiled its latest three-year strategic plan. This sees the organisation planning to increase and widen its community engagement and volunteering programmes; maximise income from commercial services, donatio

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PSIAMS Transforming Services for Children and Young People

October 30, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

Children and Young People, psiams, social impact

PSIAMS Systems Limited is a software and IT social enterprise that focusses on whole system solutions to help improve services delivery in the VCSE Sector. Recently, the PSIAMS team have been developing a range of solutions for organisations that support Children and Young People (CYP

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Social care as a local economic solution in the West Midlands — new report from Localise WM & NEF

August 21, 2017

Localise West Midlands and the New Economics Foundation have just published a new report called Social Care as a Local Economic Solution in the West Midlands. The report argues that rather than viewing social care primarily as a problem, innovative new policy perspectives should

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PSIAMS Scoops Prestigious Healthcare Innovation Award

July 24, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

psiams, social enterprise, social impact

PSIAMS Systems has won a prestigious award celebrating the very best of innovation in healthcare around the West Midlands. PSIAMS was given the gong in the Social Enterprise category of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN)’s second annual Celebration of Innovatio

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The changing face of social enterprise — Inside Outcomes

July 17, 2017

Inside Outcomes began life as a private consultancy, owned by Darren Wright, offering client-management software solutions along with support and training for organisations looking for ways to record and demonstrate the improved outcomes their clients achieved from the services they a

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“Promising Practice” — NHS England publishes paper on STPs and the third sector

April 03, 2017

We’ve written extensively about health and social value on this blog, and more recently, with specific reference to Birmingham and Solihull, have been exploring the role that NHS sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) should be playing in helping to embed socia

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Transformation and Social Value: Social Prescribing Keynote

March 25, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

Dudley, NHS, psiams, social enterprise, Social Prescribing

PSIAMS Systems will be hosting a data focussed conference during City Drive Week in Birmingham. The event will feature a range of presentations and workshops on how data is transforming the way the Voluntary and Social Enterprise Sector are responding to change and the needs of commis

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Transformation & Social Value Event – 5th April 2017

February 20, 2017

by Mark Ellerby

NHS, psiams, social impact, social value

Transformation and Social Value taking place in Birmingham on 5th April 2017 is an opportunity to hear from the charities leaders and social enterprises in the West Midlands who have embraced new technology and data to empower their organisations to work differently and demonstrate th

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West Midlands Academic Health Science Network — ‘Celebration of Innovation’ awards now open

February 15, 2017

West Midlands Academic Health Science Network’s (WMAHSN) annual Celebration of Innovation Awards will be formally launched today (15 February) at the Merdian LIVE event. Following on from the success of last year’s awards — which saw more than 80 entries from ac

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Save Our Support plans second lobby against cuts to services for most vulnerable

February 01, 2017

Birmingham Changing Futures Together is one of the organisations co-ordinating opposition to the cuts currently planned for the city’s various Supporting people services (see earlier post). It has just issued the following statement: I am writing to you asking for your support f

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The Relate Macmillan Counselling Service — for those living with or affected by cancer

January 05, 2017

Macmillan Cancer Support and Relate have teamed up to provide a new, free counselling service for families living with cancer. The number of people surviving and living with cancer is increasing. In Birmingham and the Black Country alone over 5,000 people a year are diagnosed wi

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Keeping track of the quiet revolution in health — a free briefing paper

November 07, 2016

A week or two back we wrote at some length here about the publication of Birmingham and Solihull’s ‘STP’ — its NHS ‘Sustainability & Transformation Plan’. These are the new plans that all 44 NHS ‘footprints’ (i.e. areas) in the UK ha

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Health Exchange celebrates 10th anniversary

November 03, 2016

In 2004, the Director of Public Health, the Chief Librarian and the Vice Chair of the Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust met to discuss an idea which they had provisionally named Health Exchange. They were looking for a different way of delivering public health, particularly healt

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Birmingham and Solihull draft ‘STP’ published

October 24, 2016

Further to this post, in which we wrote about the implications of the Sustainability & Transformation Plans (STPs) for the NHS, some will be interested to hear that Birmingham and Solihull’s draft STP has been published today. There is background on the STP and a statement f

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What are the implications of the NHS’s ‘STPs’?

August 30, 2016

NHS Sustainability & Transformation Plans (STPs) have finally hit the headlines (BBC News; The Guardian; I News). Up until a few weeks ago they seemed to be almost unheard of. STPs were first announced by NHS England in a December 2015 report called Delivering the Forward View: NH

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Recovery Central announces Paul McMullan ‘Alcopops’ show

July 15, 2016

Recovery Central is delighted to announce that the one and only Paul McMullan has agreed to premier his Alcopop stand up at the charity’s first dry bar event at Recovery Central before performing at the Edinburgh Festival. Paul has agreed to donate all the proceeds to the work b

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Birmingham Changing Futures Together marketplace event

May 12, 2016

Birmingham Changing Futures Together is a £10m Big Lottery funded programme supporting people with multiple and complex needs. It is holding a marketplace event at which people can find out more about its No Wrong Door Network — providers who are pledged to working together ensu

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New £1m ‘Recovery Central’ will make Birmingham the recovery capital of the UK

April 26, 2016

Changes UK, a charity and community interest company founded less than ten years ago, is well on the way to realising its ambitious vision of making Birmingham the capital for recovery from addiction. Changes UK has successfully developed and secured Public Health England fundi

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