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Working with stakeholders

The Department has a wide range of stakeholders, including patients and the public; local and regional NHS organisations; local authorities and social care providers; charities, the voluntary and community sector; and many others. The forums and networks in this section enable the Department of Health to take the health and social care agenda forward in partnership with key parties interested in its work

Towards a strategy to support volunteering in health and social care: consultation

Published: 3 June 2008

A volunteering strategy for health and social care will articulate the key actions needed to address the perceived obstacles to making a refreshed vision for volunteering in health and social care a reality.   The consultation will run until 30 September 2008, with a view to publication of a final strategy and implementation plan in early 2009. 

Third sector strategic funding and investment review

Published: 12 December 2007

The third sector funding and investment review is seeking to turn the current piecemeal arrangements for funding third sector organisations into a strategic portfolio of investments that are explicity linked with DH priorities.

Consultation will run until 20 March 2008. Feedback and publication of a response document are expected in early summer of 2008.

Third Sector Commissioning Task Force report

Published: 11 July 2006

Practical advice for primary care trusts on how to make the most of voluntary, community and charity organisations when commissioning local services.

The delivery of health and social care by the third sector

Published: 13/02/2007

This report contains the results of research commissioned by the Department of Health to examine the current and potential delivery of health and social care by the third sector.

Making partnerships work

Published: 12/03/2007

This document focuses on the role of third sector organisations as providers within health and adult social care. Case study examples demonstrate how effective commissioning by statutory and NHS organisations working jointly with third sector organisations can lead to a more innovative and dynamic health and social care service, better designed to meet users’ needs.

National Leadership Network

Published: 13/04/2007 11:21

Ministers have been reviewing the National Leadership Network for Health and Social Care. The Secretary of State has decided to put some alternative stakeholder arrangements in place. The National Leadership Network is being repositioned as an umbrella group of senior leaders and experts and its membership is being reviewed.

National Strategic Partnership Forum

The NSPF's role is to help the voluntary, community and public sectors work effectively together to deliver responsive, high quality health and adult social care services for patients, service users and carers.

Stakeholder perceptions audit

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