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UHUK - Quality Assured
29 May, 2025Author: Sharon Clifton
Members of UHUK came together yesterday for an insightful and energising ‘work-in’ brilliantly hosted by Liz Cross, Liz Allen, and Tara Bryer from The Connectives.
The purpose? To further develop a shared 'quality assurance framework' (working title) that clearly demonstrates the collective impact of UHUK’s social enterprise members on healthcare outcomes. ...
Read moreUHUK responds to The Health Foundation Report on Winter Pressures
15 May, 2025Author: Conor Burke
The Health Foundation’s latest analysis highlights the significant pressures experienced across the NHS this winter. While delayed discharge remains a major challenge, effective management of demand at the hospital front door is also critical to maintaining system flow....
Read moreUHUK Celebrates Outstanding Contributions to Urgent Care
03 April, 2025Author: Sharon Clifton
Urgent Health UK (UHUK), the national federation for social enterprise urgent and integrated care providers, has recognised four exceptional individuals for their dedication, leadership, and compassion in delivering high-quality care.
Presented at the UHUK Awards Best Practice Showcase, these inaugural awards celebrate the vital work being done across the sector, both by those leading transformational change and those going above and beyond in frontline care....
Read moreNHS Incentive Scheme Misses the Mark on Urgent and Emergency Care Investment
13 March, 2025Author: Sharon Clifton
Urgent Health UK (UHUK), the country’s leading partnership of social enterprise urgent care providers, warns that NHS England’s new incentive scheme fails to address the real pressures on A&E and urgent care services. By only rewarding the best-performing acute trusts, it overlooks the real challenge—how to reduce the demand on hospitals in the first place and create a more sustainable urgent and emergency care system.
Conor Burke, CEO of UHUK, said: "No one is going to argue that capital investment in infrastructure is not needed, but this scheme will reward just a handful of acute trusts who are already performing well. It will neglect those trusts that are struggling and completely fails to acknowledge the...
Read moreUHUK Urges ICBs to Reconsider Cuts to VCSE Sector Funding Amidst Rising Demand for Community-Based Care
28 January, 2025Author: Sharon Clifton
Urgent Health UK (UHUK), the representative body for social enterprise providers of urgent and integrated care covering two-thirds of the UK population, is calling on Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) to recognise the exceptional value provided by the VCSE sector to enable and support the core NHS aims of serving the health and wellbeing of people in the community. Without VCSE support, more care will be needed from more expensive NHS providers, significantly negating any potential savings and adding to system pressures.
New analysis from HSJ reveals that nearly half of all ICBs plan to reduce their VCSE spend in this financial year, despite national commitments to shift care into communities and focus on prevention. Some areas face reductions of up to 17%, placing essential primary and community healthcare services at risk....
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