NHS Chaplaincy Collaboratives

Listening Exercise

A listening exercise is taking place between June and August 2007 on the future shape/structure of spiritual healthcare relating to a draft booklet for NHS Commissioners.

More information and working papers

Chaplaincy Collaboratives

The spiritual healthcare modernisation agenda set out in the Caring for the Spirit workforce strategy proposed the formation of chaplaincy collaboratives as a means of supporting and securing the development of spiritual healthcare within the English NHS.

The purposes of a chaplaincy collaborative are to provide support and facilitation to aspects of the development agenda for spiritual healthcare including the following:

Providing the means of securing and developing the spiritual healthcare modernisation agenda within a defined and agreed area such as an Strategic Health Authority or Primary Care Trust.
Providing a forum in which audit and research ( Caring for the Spirit paragraph 62, 63), and education and training (paragraph 111, 122) can be enabled by a wider body of expertise and experience across Trusts.
Providing a forum for the development of good practice in spiritual healthcare, its understanding and its provision by all healthcare staff.
Helping to ensure progress in addressing matters of concern in workforce development and training and assuring occupational standards in each health and social care area ( Caring for the Spirit , paragraph 131).
Developing linkages with educational providers and faith organisations and with other chaplaincies to resolve problems which require a larger critical mass and greater expertise than that found within individual Trusts.
Providing a training environment for trainee chaplains and chaplaincy volunteers using locally and nationally agreed training resources.

This website is devoted to the work of NHS chaplaincy collaboratives. A summary of their work is included here under the names of the individual collaboratives. The resources of both the chaplaincy collaboratives and the Caring for the Spirit NHS project are included here for ease of access. All are searchable.