News and reports

Springfield Healthcare are introducing a one week intensive course allowing people to upskill for employment in Health and Social Care.

The Motivational Preparation College for Training (MPCT) are part of Learning Curve Group and now have 39 Military Academies throughout the UK supporting young people into rewarding careers including those in the British Armed Forces.

Northern Powergrid Foundation are pleased to announce that they are open to new grant applications.

Tees Valley YMCA have a number of new youth sessions for young people across Darlington during the summer holidays.

NHS Care Volunteer Responders are pleased to announce that they are now open for Community Response referrals in Darlington and across the region.

Tees Valley sport are working with the Flippin Pain programme to provide a free event entitled 'Pain: Do you get it?' taking place online, on Monday 7th August.

All this week is World Breastfeeding week with the theme being "Enabling breastfeeding: making a difference for working parents."

Since the publication of the Integrated Care Strategy, Better Health and Wellbeing for All in December 2022, the ICB have been working closely with their partner organisations to produce their Joint Forward Plan.

A new campaign from the NHS aims to encourage men over the age of 65 to attend a free Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening.

The CPR Community Network is a partnership between St John Ambulance and the NHS, supported by the Association for Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), who represent Ambulance Trusts, British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK).

Findings from a survey of more than 36,000 people who used NHS urgent and emergency care services in September 2022 show that many people had a worse experience than in previous years – particularly those treated in an A&E type department.

As part of the development of the Darlington Community Strategy, the VCSE Steering group has proposed three sub groups are established to focus on specific areas in developing the strategy.