HEALTH

Volunteer award fund backs Big Society health pledge

The DoH has today launched the Volunteering Fund National Awards to boost the government¹s capital injection into modernising the NHS.

By Luke Barras-Hill | 01 June 2011

The Department of Health has today launched the Volunteering Fund National Awards to boost the government¹s capital injection into modernising the NHS.

Funding of £6m will be divided between thirteen charitable organisations over three years, based on excellence criteria in areas including patient-led NHS, delivering better health outcomes, improving public health and improving health and social care.

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