Volunteering for Health
Improving volunteering practices, experiences, and outcomes across Health and Care Systems
What is Volunteering for Health?
Volunteering for Health is a £10 million national programme to show how volunteering can and must be a vital part of delivering health and social care now and in the future.
It aims to recognise the significant untapped potential for volunteering to enhance service delivery, improve patient and staff experience and boost routes into the health and care workforce.
Volunteering for Health in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
How it works
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in one of just fifteen areas in the country chosen to deliver this exciting new project.
Volunteering for Health enables and celebrates the opportunity for VCSE and public sectors to offer skills and expertise to support one another, with the overarching aim of improving the experience and outcomes of people using our health and care system.
A thriving volunteering culture supports the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System (ICS) to deliver high quality health and care for local people.
Volunteering for Health: our aims
Step Change
A step change ensuring a culture where volunteers are enabled to bring their skills & insight to support our health & care system.
Positive Experience
Ensure that all volunteers have a positive experience and receive the appropriate support to carry out, thrive, and enjoy their role.
Giving Back
Create an infrastructure for our health and care workforce to improve their health and
wellbeing and give back through volunteering opportunities.
Driving Force
Support leadership to think differently about volunteering, seeing the benefits it brings, and driving
forward those changes.
What we’re doing locally
Trustee Awards 2025
These surveys are in three short sections and your responses will help us to understand current perceptions of volunteering across our local NHS Trusts, as well as identify any barriers and opportunities. This will help determine the steps we need to take in implementing changes so the impact is positive and meaningful for staff, volunteers, and patients alike.
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Surveys for Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
These surveys are in three short sections and your responses will help us to understand current perceptions of volunteering across our local NHS Trusts, as well as identify any barriers and opportunities. This will help determine the steps we need to take in implementing changes so the impact is positive and meaningful for staff, volunteers, and patients alike.
NHS Staff Survey
NHS Volunteers Survey
NHS Patients and Carers Survey
To find out more about Volunteering for Health, or to get involved, please call 01782 683030 or email volunteering@vast.org.uk.
