Youth employment opportunities: introducing ‘Making Health Work’
This week, we have been recruiting volunteer Health Ambassadors for our new Big Lottery-funded programme, Making Health Work. We’re launching the project in partnership with the Foyer Federation; the idea comes from Foyer’s Healthy Conversations programme,...
Volunteers make all the difference to heart patients
Volunteers are making a real difference to how well heart patients stick with their recovery programmes. In a new initiative, Gateway volunteers have joined up with the cardio team at University Hospital Birmingham to support patients as they get well. Kate Gee, a...
Gateway volunteers help heart patients recover
Consultant cardio nurse, Kate Gee describes how volunteers help heart patients recover. Regular dance classes are helping heart patients get back on their feet. It’s a new initiative run by the cardio team at Birmingham University Hospital and part of its...
Strictly Not Rehabilitation
Our new out-patient service offers cardio out-patients and their families the chance to work with a “befriender” to progress their recovery plan. The befriender will be a first contact point for any aspects of the recovery programme and could assist with going to...
