Baroness Diana Barran, Civil Society Minister, DCMS, Catherine Johnstone CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Voluntary Service and Jeremy Hughes, Report Author discuss the role of volunteering in healthcare during the pandemic and the potential for the future.

Public Policy Projects Annual Conference 2020 – Transformative solutions can help streamline operations and support the system, and over the past year we have certainly seen how digital solutions have supported our health and care system during troubling times. Leveraging this digitalisation and data reformation with digital health solutions may improve operational efficiency and enhance care delivery going forward, and during this discussion we will explore some of the way this could be done.

This roundtable explores what part volunteering can play in ensuring that patients and the public generally can enjoy the best possible support from more integrated care services. Drawing on expertise from the NHS, local government, social care providers and the voluntary sector this Fringe Event will critically review the realities of volunteering in the 2020s.