Health and Wellbeing Alliance

The Health and Wellbeing Alliance is jointly managed by the Department of Health, NHS England and UK Health Security Agency and is made up of 18 members from the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector.

The collective mission of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance is 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. 

The themes of projects funded this year includes supporting unpaid carers across health and social care, mental health and suicide prevention, system transformation and partnership working, integrated approaches to palliative care and more.

Find out more about the VCSE projects

Carers Trust, alongside Carers UK form the Carers Partnership within the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance

The Carers Partnership represents unpaid carers, a group identified as facing some of the most significant health inequalities.

We have a programme of work across the year which enables us to gather evidence, views and experience from carers, and the local services that support them, in a variety of ways. 

Through the Carers Partnership and the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Carers Trust aims to amplify the voice of Carers Trust’s network of local carer organisations, and carers.

This work will inform national policy, help co-produce solutions to reduce health inequalities faced by carers, support information sharing with government and encourage integrated working between local carers services and statutory partners.  

This year, the Carers Partnership is focusing on ‘Supporting unpaid carers across health and social care in England and improving integrated system working’.

As part of this, the Carers Partnership are developing a resource which brings together information, resources, and examples of best practice to help health and care professionals to support unpaid carers across health and social care systems.

Many of the materials included in this guide have been developed as part of previous Health and Wellbeing Alliance projects that the Carers Partnership have collaborated on over the past few years.

You can find out more about previous projects developed through the Carers Partnership here: