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The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance is a partnership between voluntary sector organisations and the health and care system in England.

Its role is to:

  • Provide a co-ordinated route for health and care organisations to reach a wide range of VCSE organisations
  • Support collaboration between VCSE organisations and provide a collective voice for issues related to VCSE partnerships in health and care
  • Enable health and care organisations and VCSE organisations to jointly improve ways of delivering services which are accessible to everyone. By making it easier for all communities to access services this will reduce health inequalities
  • Ensure health and care decision-makers hear the views of communities which experience the greatest health inequalities.
  • Bring the expertise of the VCSE sector and communities they work with into national policy making.

The Alliance is jointly managed by the Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England & NHS Improvement, and Public Health England.

Hospice UK is part of the Palliative and End of Life Care Consortium within the Alliance, alongside Marie Curie, the National Bereavement Alliance and Together for Short Lives.

Together, we represent voluntary and community sector providers and infrastructure organisations working in death, dying, bereavement, palliative and end of life care, as well as children and adults with lived experience of death, dying and bereavement.