Health and Wellbeing Alliance Projects 2022-23
We’re pleased to share the three projects we’re working on this year to support the mission of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance.
The VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance (HW Alliance) works to enable policy, commissioning and provider organisations to design services and support based on the needs of people and communities who face disadvantage and exclusion, including digital exclusion.
The HW Alliance is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency. Each year, HW Alliance members undertake a number of planned work projects where they work in partnership with policy leads to address issues of importance to the communities they work with or represent.
This year, voluntary and community sector organisations from the HW Alliance have partnered up with policy leads from across the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency to improve access to, experience of and outcomes within mental health, maternal health, social prescribing, primary care, elective care, social care, end of life care and more.
During 2022/23, members of the HW Alliance have partnered up with policy leads to deliver 54 projects which aim to reduce health inequalities.
Embracing Complexity is a member of the Complex Needs Consortium (with National Autistic Society, Sense and VoiceAbility). As a group, we are delivering 3 projects as part of our work in the HW Alliance.
The 3 projects are:
- Supporting engagement, particularly for people with lived experience, with the government’s ‘Building the Right Support’ programme to reduce the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health in-patient services
- Maximising safeguards and support for people with complex needs who are deprived of their liberty as part of reforms to the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act
- Working to ensure the revised Accessible Information Standard will meet the needs of people with complex needs and their families when accessing health and care