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As always, below you’ll find, divided into news, get involved, resources, funding and events, loads of ways to improve health and care, particularly for LGBTQ people.
Please particularly note the calls for evidence and participation, and the opportunities to get involved in our work in the ‘News’ section, and some new funding under the funding section.
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  1. LBT Women’s Health Week 2019 – 11-15th March
We have begun planning next year’s Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women’s Health Week.
If you want to help improve health and social care for LGBTQ women, check out our pages on LBT Women's Health Week, and get in touch to be involved next year.
  1. Keep informed with the work of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance (HWA)
The National LGB&T Partnership is a member of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance. We encourage you and the VCSE organisations you work with to sign up to the monthly edition of the Department of Health’s voluntary sector team’s newsletter. They can be added by clicking here. The newsletter includes updates on the work of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance and news from the DH, NHS England and Public Health England.
  1. Health and Social Care Secretary launches 'Prevention' vision
The Secretary of State has published his vision for how he plans to transform the government’s approach to prevention, paving the way for a green paper in 2019.
The document, ‘Prevention is better than cure’, builds on the government’s previous work in areas such as childhood obesity and social prescribing. It shifts the focus to primary and community care services and the value they can bring in offering early support.
  1. Academic Internships in the VCSE Sector
Academic leaders at Kings College London are assessing the interest from the VCSE sector in a scheme which would allow young researchers to learn from the VCSE community and would allow the charity sector to benefit from the skills of academics to conduct high-level mental health research. If your organisation, or others you may know, would be interested in partaking in this initiative and granting PhD students and early career researchers the opportunity to do an internship with them, then please do let Ali Hussain know. She is discussing with various academic institutions and funders how they can make this happen more systematically.
  1. Latest on the NHS Long Term Plan
Earlier this summer, the Government announced additional funding for the NHS and this means NHS England needs to make sure the NHS fit for the future for patients, their families and NHS staff. Find out the latest in NHS England’s November update for the NHS Long Term Plan. This details how the plan is being developed and progress to date. Publication of the plan is currently expected in December.
  1. Health inequalities and the NHS
How can our health services help to reduce health inequalities? In this guest blog for The Kings Fund, Victor Adebowale argues that involving communities and working holistically can help, while remembering the founding principles of the NHS.

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  1. CALL FOR PRACTICE EXAMPLES: Closing the employment gap for young people with low level mental health issues
The Partnership are engaged in a project with the YPHP and other HWA partners to develop a resource to help improve understanding about young people not in employment, education or training who experience low level mental health issues and help those working with young people to support them.
As part of this work we want to find new and promising practice and understand what employers need to support them to engage with young people affected by mental health issues and are publishing a call for practice examples to support the resource.
  1. Workshop/Focus Group: Trauma Informed Care in Mental Health Services: Identifying good practice
The Mental Health Foundation invites you to participate in ‘Trauma Informed Care in Mental Health Services – Identifying Good Practice’ – a half day workshop for providers, commissioners and people with lived experience exploring how mental health services can provide effective trauma informed care.
The Mental Health Foundation, Association of Mental Health Providers, Centre for Mental Health, LGBT Partnership and the Race Equality Foundation are working in partnership to develop a toolkit that provides relevant, useful information and advice for services seeking to become trauma informed. We would like to invite you to participate in a workshop that will help us deepen our understanding of these issues and prioritise ideas for the toolkit.
The workshops will be in Durham https://amhp.org.uk/event/workshop-trauma-informed-care-in-womens-mh-services-durham/ and London https://amhp.org.uk/event/workshop-trauma-informed-care-in-womens-mh-services/
  1. LGBTQI+ and Faith - Focus Group and Survey
Are you LGBTQI+ and identify as having a faith, religion or spirituality? Do you live, work, study, or socialise in Brighton and Hove? If so, Switchboard would love to hear from you through their focus group (December 10th 5.30-7.30, contact sophie.barnes@switchboard.org.uk for more information or to register your interest) and survey to learn about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people of faith, religion and spirituality when it comes to feeling safe and included in your local communities.
Switchboard’s Health and Inclusion Project is carrying out this engagement on behalf of Brighton & Hove City Council to learn how local services can better serve LGBTQI+ people of faith, so your voice will really make a difference.
  1. Request for PPV Partners to assist in the re-procurement of the NHS111 service
NHS England currently has a contract with Vodafone to allow patients in England, Wales and Scotland to dial 111 free of charge to access advice when they are concerned about their health.
The contract connects patients to their local Urgent Care Centre, who advise patients individually whether they need to contact their local GP, manage their own care, attend A&E or a Minor Injuries Unit. As the contract expires in February 2020, we are taking steps to get the appropriate approvals to ensure this vital service is maintained and would value the input of patients to help us in our deliberations at our workshops.
If you have used NHS111and would like to be involved, visit the Involvement Hub.
  1. SOGICA online survey on LGBQTI+ asylum
SOGICA is a four-year research project to determine how European asylum systems can treat claims based on sexual orientation or gender identity more fairly. The SOGICA team wants their research to involve and be informed by people with direct experience of the questions they are asking. They are, therefore, carrying out these surveys to complete it before March 2019.
The survey is divided into two – one for people claiming or who have claimed asylum, and one for people who work with them or support them. They know that a lot of people do both so please complete whichever one you prefer (or both from different perspectives if you wish).
  1. Consultation on a review and update of CCG guidance on Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care
NHS England continues to partner with NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC) to support clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in ensuring that they can use their prescribing resources effectively and deliver best patient outcomes from the medicines that their local population uses. A national public consultation has been launched on proposals to update and review commissioning guidance on eight more products that cost the NHS more than £68 million.
The consultation runs from 28 November 2018 until 28 February 2019. Details of public consultation events can be found here. If you would like any further information please email england.medicines@nhs.net

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  1. The VCSE Inclusion Health Audit Tool
Have you tried the tool yet?
We have worked with colleagues across the Health & Wellbeing Alliance to launch the VCSE Inclusion Health Audit Tool. This online tool will help your organisation to audit its engagement with Inclusion Health groups. These are the groups identified as experiencing the worst health inequalities in the UK.
The tool consists of five sections and takes around 15 minutes to complete. Once you have completed the audit tool, you will be provided with a unique and tailored guide which will help your organisation to embed action on tackling health inequalities into its everyday activities. Access the tool here.
  1. LGBT in Britain: health report
Stonewall commissioned YouGov to carry out a survey asking more than 5,000 lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people across England, Scotland and Wales about their life in Britain today. This report, part of a series based on the research, looks at mental health and wellbeing of LGBT people and investigates the specific experiences of LGBT people when accessing health care services. This study shows the rates of depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions among LGBT people. It also looks into the accessibility of health care services and the discrimination LGBT people face when seeking medical support.
  1. Equally Outstanding: an update
Last autumn, CQC published Equally Outstanding, a resource which shows how a focus on equality and human rights can improve care quality – even in times of financial constraint.
One year on, they have updated Equally Outstanding with: a new e-learning module; extra case studies from outstanding providers; an updated pdf version based on feedback.
  1. How do we include health inequality impacts in economic analysis of policy options?
This briefing introduces the health equity impact plane – a simple visual tool for clarifying the relationship between cost-effectiveness and equity impact. The equity impact plane can be used to compare policy options based on these two key policy objectives. It can also be used to clarify thinking about policy trade-offs and compromises, and to re-design policies to reduce health inequality in cost-effective ways that do not sacrifice large potential health gains.
  1. Health Inequalities - A Fair, Supportive Society Report
This IHE report (commissioned by NHSE) outlines the impact of health inequalities on the lives of people with learning disabilities. They argue that focus on the social determinants of health (housing, poverty, discrimination and bullying in particular) in government action is needed to redress this.
  1. Taking our health for granted: plugging the public health grant funding gap
This briefing paper states that an additional £3.2 billion a year is required to reverse the impact of government cuts to the public health grant and ensure that it is re-allocated according to need. The grant enables local authorities to deliver vital public health services, such as obesity programmes, drug and alcohol services and sexual health services, but this paper finds that it has seen a £700 million real terms reduction in funding between 2014/15 and 2019/20 – a fall of almost a quarter (23.5 per cent) per person.
  1. A vision for population health: towards a healthier future
We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. This report sets out a new vision for population health.
  1. A fair, supportive society: summary report
This report, commissioned by NHS England, highlights that some of the most vulnerable people in society – those with learning disabilities – will die 15-20 years sooner on average than the general population. Much of the government action needed to improve life expectancy for people with disabilities is likely to reduce health inequalities for everyone. The report recommends that action should focus on the ‘social determinants of health’, particularly addressing poverty, poor housing, discrimination and bullying.
  1. Volunteering and Youth Social Action in Health and Social Care toolkit
This is a toolkit to help health and social care organisations engage with young people as volunteers. You will find guidance to help you adapt and improve the impact and inclusiveness of what you already do and inspiration to set up new and ambitious volunteering and social action initiatives with and for children and young people.
  1. Tackling loneliness
This review is the first of its kind to establish what we know about loneliness and effective ways to tackle it. It is a first step to develop the evidence, revealing big gaps in the current evidence base. It is important to remember that these findings only cover the interventions included in the studies looked at by the review.
  1. Protect against STIs campaign
Public Health England (PHE) are launching two new films as part of a campaign to highlight the increased likelihood of contracting a sexually transmitted infection if people have sex without using a condom. The campaign is targeting 16-24 year olds as latest figures from PHE show that a case of chlamydia or gonorrhoea is diagnosed in a young person every four minutes in England.
  1. Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions
The Health Foundation’s new briefing Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions highlights that nearly one in four people living in England have two or more conditions, which have been linked to poorer quality of life and a greater risk of premature death.
To care for people living with multiple conditions effectively, it is critical that the NHS long-term plan understands and addresses the complexity of their needs. A sustainable NHS will need to improve both the quality and cost effectiveness of care for people with multiple conditions.
  1. How should health policy respond to the growing challenge of multimorbidity?
There is growing awareness internationally of the increasing number of people living with multiple long-term health conditions, known as multimorbidity. Health services, including the NHS, need to adapt to address this challenge. This policy report discusses the issue of multimorbidity, and offers a summary of recommendations.
  1. Making sure people seeking and refused asylum can access health care: what needs to change?
This research explores the experiences of people who are currently or have been in the asylum process in Britain, as well as engaging with health care professionals and analysing existing research. It finds that cost and fears about how they will be treated, or consequences for their immigration status, are preventing people who are seeking or have been refused asylum from using health services. It calls for greater separation of the immigration and health care systems.
  1. Safe and Fair Recruitment
Skills for Care have developed a Safe and Fair recruitment guide to help social care and health employers understand their legal rights and responsibilities when carrying out criminal record (DBS) checks. Whilst it’s essential that people receiving support are well-cared for and safeguarded from harm, the guide supports employers to recruit fairly and safely, assessing risks and applicant suitability along the way.
It’s important to have effective recruitment processes in place, however, many recruitment practices unintentionally exclude people with criminal records from employment. This results in employers missing out on a huge pool of potential recruits who have the right values to make a positive contribution to a role in adult social care.
  1. Prison Health
This report finds that standards inside England’s prisons have deteriorated in recent years, following budget reductions and the loss of prison officers. It concludes that prisons, as a result of staff shortages and overcrowding, are limiting prisoners’ access to healthcare and their ability to lead healthy lives. The report calls on the government to try to tackle this cycle of disadvantage, by reducing the health inequities people in prison face.

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NICE committee recruitment
NICE are looking for experts to join their Public Health Advisory Committees to develop guidelines on interventions and services. They need both lay members (people using services, family members and carers, and members of the public and community or voluntary sector) and people with a professional or practitioner background in the topic.
They are currently recruiting specifically for people for the Infant, children and young people's experience of healthcare Guideline and the Tobacco Update Committee
More details can be found on the NICE website.
 
Paid roles
The LGBT Consortium website has a page dedicated to jobs in the sector
 
Voluntary roles
There are currently a significant number of voluntary opportunities also outlined on the LGBT Consortium page dedicated to jobs in the sector
 
If you would like to advertise a vacancy relevant to LGBT Health and Care in our newsletter please email: nationalgbtpartnership@gmail.com

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  1. *NEW* VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund
The fund is part of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Programme and each round focuses on a specific theme. This round will provide grants of up to £510,000 over three years, to organisations to expand and evaluate current projects improving the mental health of children and young people, particularly supporting those going through life changing events. All grants are subject to yearly business planning processes.
The Fund is inviting applications from VCSE organisations until 12noon on Friday 15 February. Further information can be found here.
  1. *NEW* Centre for Ageing Better Volunteering Fund
The Centre for Ageing Better has launched its Age-friendly and inclusive volunteering fund to support initiatives that put the principles of age-friendly and inclusive volunteering set out in their recent review into practice.
You can find all the information at: www.ageing-better.org.uk/age-friendly-and-inclusive-volunteering-fund
  1. *NEW* Alzheimer’s Society Accelerator Programme
Do you have a fantastic idea that could improve the lives of people affected by dementia, but aren’t sure how you bring it to life?
Alzheimer’s Society want to support innovations in products or services for people affected by dementia. Our support includes a grant of up to £100K, and ‘Innovation Buddy’ to work with you for a year to develop your idea and connect you to a wealth of expertise and resources through Alzheimer’s Society.
Anyone with a good idea who is over 18, and lives in the UK can apply. You just need to fill out our application form, and upload a one minute video to explain your idea, before 01 January 2019.
For more information please click here.
  1. *NEW* The Antonia & Andrea Belcher Trans Fund
Under 'The Antonia & Andrea Belcher Trans Fund', small grants will be provided to support those activists and their organisations working across the world to improve the lives of trans people. Read more here.
  1. *NEW* Enterprise Development Fund
Access – the foundation for social investment – has recently launched its Enterprise Development Programme, a five-year programme which will provide a broad range of support for charities and social enterprises in England. The programme is designed to help VCSE organisations to make a transition to new enterprise models, or grow existing ones.
  1. Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
The Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is about helping vulnerable young people (aged 14-25). The Fund will provide core funding to organisations within the youth sector and outside.  There is no deadline to apply.
  1. Transform Foundation Website grant programme
This programme can cover the upfront costs of a new charity-specific website including strategy, design, development and training. The Website Grant is aimed at small to medium-sized charities and other not for profit organisations with a social mission. The grant is most suitable for non-profits with an income between £500,000 and £20 million. Applications can currently be made on a rolling basis.
  1. Barchester Healthcare Foundation
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to small local groups / charities to improve the quality of life for older people as well as adults with a physical or mental disability, where health and/or social care needs cannot be met by the statutory public sector or by the individual. This year their focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. Apply anytime.
  1. The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust makes grants to smaller community-led groups that support people at the margins of society. They are particularly interested in encouraging inclusion, integration and independence and support work that develops social connections and relationships. Grants are commonly used for core funding (salaries, running costs and overheads), but can also be used for project costs, capital grants and funding to strengthen an organisation. The Trust has no deadlines and first stage applications can be made at any time.
  1. The ACT Foundation
The ACT Foundation provides grants to charities in the UK, with the aim of enhancing the quality of life for people in need, specifically the mentally and physically disabled and older people. ACT gives large and small donations to charities depending on the project and available funds. Their current focus is on transformational change. Applications are accepted year round.

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  1. King's Fund's Cascading Leadership programme is now open for new applications. 
The programme, now in its third year, offers free support, advice and training to the leaders of health and wellbeing charities; from small start-ups or support groups to major national organisations, it's based on a ground-breaking model of peer-to-peer support.
Successful applicants will be matched into pairs, with a consultant (an established charity leader), working with a partner (a leader who is seeking support). A distinctive aspect of the programme is that those providing the support are current leaders in the sector, who develop their leadership skills and receive training and supervision from The King’s Fund, while they are supporting another organisation.  
  1. QTIPOC Workshop – Brighton
8th December, 5.30-7.30, Brighton
Switchboard has been working with BME/POC (Black and Minority Ethnic/People of Colour) LGBTQ+ people in reviewing Switchboard services. As a next step we are running a workshop to develop some ideas and we want to hear from you.
Do you identify as BME/POC LGBTQ+ and want to get involved? All participants will be paid expenses (£20) and your confidentiality will be respected. A vegan lunch will also be included.
Please get in touch at brighton.admin@switchboard.org.uk for more details, or if you have any access requirements that they need to be aware of, and book here.
  1. Subsidised training - LGBT-inclusive RSE
Various dates throughout November & December, North of England
With mandatory Relationships and Sex Education on the horizon the UK's largest LGBT+ youth charity is offered heavily subsidised places on their upcoming Sexuality aGender v2 training. Sexuality aGender v2 is a brand new, pioneering resource pack. It is NOT a sexual health package for LGBT+ young people, it is an inclusive pack for ALL young people.
Sexuality aGender v2 will enable you to engage with young people in a meaningful conversation about gender identity, sexuality and sexual health. This will in turn help them explore who they are and what they want, in a safe, supported way, free from assumptions.
  1. Gypsy and traveller cultural awareness e-learning course
Friends Families and Travellers (FFT), have produced this cultural awareness course about Gypsies and Travellers, which is essential for anyone working in the public sector and voluntary sector. For example: teachers, police officers, people working in healthcare, and those in housing planning and equality and diversity departments.
  1. E-learning – community centred approaches to health
PHE and HEE have produced a new e-Learning for Health programme on community-centred approaches to health improvement:https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/community-centred-approaches-to-health-improvement/
These two new e-learning modules are suitable for practitioners, managers and commissioners who want: an update on evidence and guidance on community-centred approaches to health improvement; and to take a more strategic and planned approach to scaling-up community-centred approaches.
  1. Free online course for carers
Caring for adults, a free online course for carers, builds on what people may already know to give a better understanding of the role of carer. It also supports wellbeing by giving some ideas and information about looking after yourself and dealing with stress. If learners complete the course they are awarded with a digital badge, displayable on social media sites such as LinkedIn.
  1. Improvement FUNdamentals
Improvement FUNdamentals is a new open online course for people working in health and care. The course covers the principles of quality improvement. It is free and entirely self-paced, meaning participants can complete the course in their own time.

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