Health Support and Projects
PCVS supports healthy communities
The big Health and Wellbeing survey was undertaken in early 2025.
This community-focused initiative aimed to better understand and address the diverse health and wellness needs of our residents. This has been developed by the Peterborough and East and Bretton, Park and Hampton Integrated Neighbourhoods.
The Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Survey was a collaborative effort to gather direct insights from residents about their health, wellness, and quality-of-life concerns. By understanding their needs, we can take meaningful steps toward improving community health resources, programs, and support services across our neighbourhood. You can check out the results in the links below.
Thank you for taking part!
PCVS supports community research champions
PCVS successfully supported and trained a group of community research champions in 2023-2024. Now ‘Be Part of Research’ is the nation’s biggest-ever recruitment drive for clinical trials – to sign up 1.5 million people to the Be Part of Research service!
Be Part of Research makes it easier than ever to find and take part in health and care research. The free online service matches volunteers to health and care studies, based on your interests, taking place online or at locations near you.
Through Be Part of Research, you can find and take part in research into nearly every major health condition – as well as social care research.
Four reasons why research needs all kinds of people to get involved
1. Ensuring medications work for everyone. Not everyone responds to treatments the same way. For example, genetic differences, such as being a man or a woman or a different ethnicity can affect how we respond to medications.
2. Better understanding risks for diseases, for example, your ethnicity can play a role in how likely you are to develop a certain condition.
3. Improving treatments and health services for all. Not everyone has the same outcomes from healthcare in the NHS and we need to understand why. For example, babies born to women on lower incomes are more likely to suffer complications than those on higher incomes.
4. Closing the gap for rural and coastal communities. People from these communities have higher rates of preventable conditions, go to A&E more often and have shorter life expectancies than those living in cities. Yet most research is centred on hospitals in large cities, and people taking part tend to live nearby.
Whatever your age, ethnicity, gender or background, you can make a huge difference
in improving the health and care of tomorrow!
Check out the links below and get involved.
Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice Carer Support survey
Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice, working with Caring Together, Peterborough City Council and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Service, are working together to explore and enhance support for people with caring responsibilities. We want to make sure that support is inclusive, respectful, and available to everyone—no matter their background.
If you are a carer—or have been one in the past—we would love to hear from you.
Your experiences, challenges, and ideas can help shape services that better reflect the needs of carers from all backgrounds and walks of life. Whether you care for a family member, friend, or neighbour, your voice matters.
C.lick the link to take part in this short, confidential survey to hear directly from carers like you.