ACEVO’s Chief Executive Sir Stephen Bubb is chairing a taskforce to examine the third sector’s role in tackling the winter pressure currently faced by NHS Accident and Emergency departments.
The taskforce has received significant media coverage already:
The Sunday Times, ‘Charities to ease hospital crisis’
Independent, ‘Charities offer to help out in A&E to relieve pressure on staff’
ITV ‘Good Morning Britain’, Sir Stephen Bubb interviewed
Channel 4 News, Sir Stephen Bubb interviewed
Jersey Evening Post, ‘Charities: Let us help in A&E’
Guernsey Press, ‘Charities: Let us help in A&E’
The Guardian, ‘Why is there an A&E crisis and how can it be solved?’
Third Sector, ‘ACEVO urges government to let charities help in ‘crisis-hit’ A&E departments’
Civil Society, ‘ACEVO to devise plan for charities to relieve pressure on the NHS’
Nursing Times, ‘Charities urge government to deploy volunteers to reduce A&E pressure’