NEL VCSFE Collaborative logo. Voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise organisations working with the NHS across North East London. Photograph of a woman wearing a headscarf laughing with 2 other women.

About the NEL VCFSE Collaborative ​​​

The NEL VCFSE Collaborative is committed to our five values:  
  • Equity and inclusivity – Championing compassionate, collaborative, and inclusive multi-professional leadership.
  • Collaborative – Meaningful integration with the ICB as a coordinated VCFSE voice.
  • Innovative – VCFSE sector contributing expertise in an equitable manner in commissioning, service design and improvement processes.
  • Transparent – Building trust across sectors and ensuring the VCFSE is a valued partner.
  • Person and community focused – Strengths-based approach by championing our people and communities. 

The NEL VCFSE Collaborative works closely with NHS North East London to provide strategic input and representation for the VCFSE across NEL and ensures a two way flow of communication from VCFSE to the ICB. Tower Hamlets CVS currently hosts the NEL VCFSE Collaborative.

The NEL VCFSE Collaborative currently meets monthly with participation of VCFSE across the 7 London places (City and Hackney, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) as well as our five thematic representatives (Workforce and Volunteers, Long Term Conditions (LTC), Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism, Babies, Children and Young People, and Faith to work with the ICB and to contribute in a meaningful way to health outcomes.

For more information, email nelvcse@thcvs.org.uk.

Photo of two women smiling. Photos by Faith Action: https://www.faithaction.net.

Representatives

Background Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) were set up on 1st July 2022 in order to improve the health and wellbeing of people across a sub-regional area and comprise an Integrated Care Partnership and an Integrated Care Board. They exist to support integration and partnership with health & social care organisations to improve population health, build greater equity and reduce health inequalities.   NHS England guidance for the implementation of ICS requires the establishment of a ‘VCSE alliance’, and targets to enable this have been set:   “By [July] 2022 integrated care partnerships (ICPs) and the ICB are expected to have developed a formal agreement for engaging and embedding the VCSE sector in systemlevel governance and decision making arrangements, ideally by working through a VCSE alliance to reflect the diversity of the sector.”

Click here for a list of representatives.

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VCSFE logo and partner logos: NHS North East London, THCVS, Hackney CVS, Community Action Redbridge, Volunteer Centre Havering, Faith Action, Renewal Programme, WIILMA, Harmony House Dagenham, Mind in the city and Waltham Forest. Text reads: Voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise organisations working with the HNS across North East London.