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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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NHS outsourcing and mutuals in crisis?

April 13, 2016

An independent enquiry into the collapse of the largest single integrated health outsourcing contract so far let by the NHS has just been published. The contract, worth £725m over five years, was intended to integrate community care for over 18 year olds, acute emergency care for the

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Patients are the stars

March 09, 2016

John Taylor Hospice, the first social enterprise hospice in the UK, is launching a promotional campaign in which patients, carers and staff are the stars. Under the slogan, “We believe end of life isn’t the end of living,” the hospice is using advertising on buses, b

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John Taylor Hospice says goodbye to CEO Kate Phipps

February 03, 2016

Founded in 1910, John Taylor Hospice is one of the oldest non-denominational hospices in the UK. It was also the first ‘new mutual’ — or social enterprise — hospice, leaving the NHS in in 2011 under the Department of Health’s Right to Request process. Pperating

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Asset-based community development respiratory clinics — call for EOIs, seed-funding available

January 21, 2016

The Health Foundation recently sponsored a project to develop a new model of Respiratory community clinic that uses asset-based community development approaches to improve wellbeing and reduce the anxiety and social isolation experienced by many individuals with severe Chronic Obstruc

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Calling health & social care enterprises — help us clarify progress on social value in service commissioning

January 05, 2016

Happy New Year to everyone. BSSEC is preparing for a late-Feb event exploring social value and health, primarily for an audience of commissioners of different types. We want to let them know what your experience has been of the health and social care sector’s use of the social value l

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Gateway Family Services wins top Public Health award

November 02, 2015

Gateway Family Services CIC, nine years old this year, is celebrating in style — by winning the prestigious 2015 Public Health Minister’s Award. The award, established in 2014 by Jane Ellison MP, the Minister for Public Health, and supported by the Department of Health, recognis

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John Taylor Hospice breathlessness programme shortlisted for award

June 23, 2015

Birmingham’s John Taylor Hospice, the only UK hospice operating as a social enterprise, has just been shortlisted for a prestigious Nursing Times Award for its specialist breathing clinic, which has already helped more than 200 local people. The team behind the pioneering Fatigu

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Birmingham City Council — consultation on commissioning of prevention services

June 19, 2015

An important consultation is underway that will be relevant to many social enterprises and third sector organisations in the city. Birmingham City Council is seeking views on the Integrated Commissioning of Prevention services, to be commissioned from 2016. This includes: Supporting P

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Changes to Urgent & Emergency Care — consultation workshop

June 10, 2015

Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group is planning changes to urgent and emergency care services for its patients. It is important that VCOs and social enterprises have an opportunity to contribute to the new vision for urgent and emergency care, given that many of

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Birmingham Changing Futures Together — launch event

June 08, 2015

On 12 February 2014 the Big Lottery confirmed that it was investing almost £10m in Birmingham Changing Futures Together, a new project to support adults with multiple and complex needs. The project focuses on homelessness, addiction and substance misuse, risk of reoffending, and menta

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Birmingham lifestyle services consultation

May 22, 2015

Care charity Freshwinds is working with Public Health Birmingham in conducting the ‘Birmingham Lifestyle services Consultation’. Public Health recognises that Lifestyle Services are essential to improving the health and wellbeing of Birmingham citizens and this consultation is an oppo

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Active Communities programme for Birmingham offers grants for work in addressing health inequalities

May 01, 2015

This, just in from the North West Birmingham Development Agency… The People’s Health Trust has opened its Active Communities programme with a focus on creating a society without health inequalities through investing in people with great ideas for creating fairer places to grow,

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John Taylor Hospice CIC — It’s a Knock-Out!

April 24, 2014

John Taylor Hospice is holding its annual It’s a Knock-Out fundraising event. The hospice is looking for teams of ten to take part, get wet and have loads of fun! To take part your team must pledge to raise a minimum £500 in sponsorship – that works out at just £50 per person.

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John Taylor Hospice campaign to address prostate cancer health inequalities in BME community

January 09, 2014

The John Taylor Hospice is promoting an event called Benjamin’s Brothers on the 29th January 2014. The event is a call to action on health inequalities in prostrate cancer within the male African-Caribbean community. Anyone interested in attending please send mail to Surrinder Bai

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