Volunteering Opportunities Archives - Healthy Life Essex

PLACE – Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment All hospitals and hospices that provide NHS-funded care are subject to an annual assessment called PLACE. Hospitals and hospices managed by voluntary, independent and private healthcare providers that do not provide NHS-funded care are also encouraged to participate in the programme but it is not mandatory for

Patient Partners are ‘patient’ volunteers who help train our future doctors Last year, Anglia Ruskin University opened a brand new School of Medicine in Chelmsford, to help address the urgent need for more doctors and healthcare professionals in the UK and specifically Essex. We are recruiting further volunteers* to our Patient Partners group to help

Blood donation is so vital and so simple, and yet not enough people do it. People refusing to donate blood means more people dying. Of course, it is your decision entirely, but you should at least be clear about the blood donation process as silly reasons can often put people off donating. This infographic from