Winter on the wards: how the Red Cross helps the NHS to ease the burden of the cold season
The assisted discharge programme has been rolled out at hospitals up and down the country. But how has it made a difference to those that know the struggle the most?
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Home from hospital safe and sound
Making the journey home from hospital easier
Straight out of hospital? We’re here
Our volunteers help with food, medication – and even snowdrop trips
Eight things you didn’t know about our work in health and social care
By British Red Cross
From taking people home from hospital to providing low-cost wheelchairs, the Red Cross has been helping with health and social care for over 70 years. That dates back to before the NHS was founded! Today, our volunteers still give vital support to people across the UK.
What needs to happen to end the loneliness crisis?
By Zoe Abrams, Executive Director of Communication
We’re tackling loneliness one step at a time, from sending volunteers to help people stuck at home to influencing debates in Parliament. Now, we want to share the value of social prescribing, which puts people’s emotional needs on a par with their clinical condition.
What can we do about loneliness?
Millions of us are struggling – but we have big plans
I was so lonely, I broke down in the middle of a university lecture
Student Rhianydd opens up about being young and lonely
Social prescribing matters – and this is why we support it
Supporting people’s social connections is now part of NHS policy - this is why we welcome it
On the move
Make your wheelchair the reason you’re fit
Secrets to an active life
Why wheelchairs matter for mental health
In need of a temporary chair? We loan them out
“The day I saved my choking 2-year-old”
By Gemma, mum of five
Gemma’s daughter, Seven, thought she would get in trouble after choking on a plastic toy brick. But Gemma was just thankful that her little girl was alive and that she had known how to save her thanks to a British Red Cross first aid video.
