News and reports

The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) has announced funding of £62 million to help discharge people with learning disabilities and/or autism from hospital into the community.

If you need to talk, Macmillan are there to listen. They have introduced a telephone buddies service, enabling those living with cancer the chance to reach out to talk to a trained telephone buddy so they don't have to face cancer alone.

Take a look at what the guidance around visiting your loved ones in care homes means in practice.

Find out more about our online focus groups, why they help us with our work, and how it makes a difference to health & care in the future.

Our fantastic volunteers share their latest news update, including how they have been making a difference by sharing their time with Healthwatch Darlington during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kooth are offering free forum discussions online throughout August for young people aged 11-18 in Darlington on a wide range of topics.

The Bread and Butter Thing is a charity that began in Manchester making life more affordable for people on a low income and now they have created 3 hubs in Darlington running through the summer.

CDDFT have released the latest edition of their newsletter 'The Week Ahead'.

Place2Be, a charity that aims to improve mental health in children, have created a project called 'The Art Room At Home' encouraging primary school age children and their parents/carers to create something together.

A new scheme called 'Eat Out to Help Out' aiming to get the public eating out during August to help local restaurants as a result of the hardships faced during the pandemic has so far received a magnificent 57 sign-ups from restaurants in Darlington.

VONNE have released the latest edition of their newsletter for the VCSE sector across the North East.

Sexual Health Services in the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust have been scaled down with venues being closed or relocated and staff being resourced to alternative venues due to the pandemic.