Budget 2018: What will the £2bn funding boost mean for mental health services?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced that mental health services in the UK will receive a £2bn funding boost during his budget proposal on Monday 29th October. The fu ...
Health Exchange awarded Health and Wellbeing Fund for Social Prescribing
Health Exchange awarded Health and Wellbeing Fund to deliver 3 year Social Prescribing Programme across Birmingham. Health Exchange are pleased to announce that its proposal to the Department of ...
Carer’s Week 2018 – A Round-up of Events
Carer's Week 2018 Carer’s Week is an annual campaign that aims to raise awareness for carers and caring roles, highlight any challenges for carers and recognise the contribution they make to the indi ...
How social enterprises are pioneering innovative solutions in health and social care services
Social enterprises have a long history in delivering, supporting and influencing health and social care provision in the UK. The number of social enterprises working in the health and social care sect ...
From the Facilitator’s point of view…
Casper has been working for Living Well Taking Control since the Diabetes Prevention Programme first launched in St Helen’s in January 2017. He worked with some of the very first participant’s to join ...
Diabetes Prevention Week – Margaret’s Experience of the NHS DPP
NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme achieving great results in the West Midlands Margaret is one of 2,716 Birmingham, Sandwell & Solihull residents in the region to benefit from the NHS Diabete ...
Health Exchange Welcomes…
We have been undergoing an exciting time of change at Health Exchange as we have said a fond farewell to Graham Beaumont after ten years of service and welcomed in our new CEO, Ron Owttrim. Ron comes ...
New Job Opportunity: Black Country Coordinator
JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Black Country Coordinator Accountable to: Chief Operations Officer Responsible to: Operations Manager Location: Black Country Hub Salary ...
Developing a new Health Consortium with USE-IT
As part of the USE-IT (Unlocking Social and Economic Innovation Together) project, Health Exchange is facilitating the development of a Health Consortium that will serve the Ladywood, Soho and Smethwi ...
Being a part of the NHS: DPP Success Story
The First progress report of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme for 2016/17 has been published by Public Health England, Diabetes UK and NHS England and it shows promising results. ...