Blogs

Sarah Button explains why she applied for our Feel the Difference grant to raise awareness for hidden disabilities, and who her inspiration was.

Deborah Sheppard, our Head of Professional Regulation and CQC, tells us about how we’ve ensured that our services continue to operate at a safe standard and in line with regulations throughout the pandemic.

We want to try everything we can to make sure our more than 5,000 employees are keeping well during this pandemic.

Our Head of Quality and Risk, Cath Marsland, writes about how we’re communicating important updates with our clinicians during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a responsible and professional health and social care provider, the health and wellbeing of our staff and the people who use our services is something very close to our heart. Our Chief People Officer, Samantha Kane, writes about how we’re supporting our healthcare workers through this time.

We at Virgin Care have been working flat out with the NHS, local authorities and other partners helping the response to Covid-19. Here, our Head of Commissioning and Wellbeing in Bath and North East Somerset, writes…

This week is National Apprenticeship Week and Jayne Pattison goes into detail about why it is extremely important to raise awareness surrounding apprenticeships, and reiterate that they can be for anyone.

As part of National Apprenticeship Week (3rd-7th February 2020) our PR Executive Molly McNaughton, who is also studying for an apprenticeship, tells us why she thinks they provide an excellent route to getting a strong start in your career.

Sarah van der Merwe, our Head of Apprenticeships, goes in to detail about why apprenticeships are an amazingly useful way of educating yourself and progressing your career.

Elly Gunning, 52, tells how completing an apprenticeship isn’t just for school leavers and you can do an apprenticeship whatever age you are.

As a former GP who has worked in healthcare for 34 years, I – like most of us across this wonderful and important sector – am committed to help train and build a skilled workforce to meet the future demands of a growing population that is living longer.

I am delighted to have signed Virgin Care up to the Social Mobility Pledge, which will mean our organisation will be working with others to make a real difference to social mobility in the workplace.