Latest updates from the Alliance

Worcestershire Place Development Online Briefing

We were delighted to be able to welcome nearly fifty attendees to our Online Briefing on Wednesday 18th September, where we heard from Sarah Speck, Director of Worcestershire Place Development. Sarah gave a comprehensive update on the development of the Worcestershire Place Plan, and the opportunities for the VCSE sector…

Big Quality Conversation 2024 – 2025

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have launched their new Big Quality Conversation survey for 2024-2025 are seeking responses from as many people as possible. This survey will help us understand what the experience is like for people when they come into our hospitals and are in our care. This survey is…

Introduction to our Independent Chair

I am delighted to introduce myself as the new Independent Chair of the Worcestershire VCSE Alliance, a role to lead and champion this vital work within the VCSE sector and as part of the Integrated Care System.  I came into this role personally because I believe in the VCSE Alliance…

Digital Social Prescribing App

Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB have commissioned the licence of the digital social prescribing App ‘Joy’ for 1 year for all practices across Worcestershire.  The specific function and feature of Joy is that it integrates with practice clinical systems, EMIS. Joy codes back into EMIS. This allows all social prescribing activity…

REACH Worcestershire – widening community engagement in research – let’s keep the conversations going!

Early this year we launched REACH (Research Engagement and Community Health) Worcestershire, an exciting new project that aims ‘to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and address health inequalities through cohesive, targeted and research-informed support for communities in Worcestershire’. A key part of this project focusses on increasing participation in community…