Health and wellbeing

Promoting good health and wellbeing is a top priority for our members. Together with partners including the NHS, we’re coordinating national efforts to support our members to improve the health of students, staff and local communities.

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25 January 2023 Case studies

How have universities taken action on spiking?

We’ve highlighted just a few examples of how universities have responded to our guidance on tackling spiking.

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10 March 2023 Podcasts

Podcast: Students and drugs

Universities often take a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to drug use or drug abuse. But there’s not much evidence to show that the fear or threat of being kicked out of uni works. If current drugs policies aren't working, what would?

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19 April 2023 Health and wellbeing

19 April 2023 Health and wellbeing

Creating a statutory duty of care for students

This briefing outlines UUK's position on legislating for an additional statutory duty of care for students in higher education. It also highlights our work with members to support the mental health of students and staff across our universities.
30 June 2023 News

30 June 2023 News

President of Universities UK responds to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan 2023

Professor Sir Steve West CBE, President of UUK has responded to the release of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.See the full press release from NHS England.
30 October 2023 Media releases

30 October 2023 Media releases

Education leaders sound warning on future of healthcare

The Government’s ambitious plans to strengthen the NHS can only be achieved if significant changes are made to healthcare education and training now, warns Universities UK (UUK).
30 October 2023 Publications

30 October 2023 Publications

Universities powering the NHS

Our position paper and case studies on how universities will be central to educating the NHS healthcare workforce of the future.
16 February 2024 Explainer

16 February 2024 Explainer

How can we improve access to healthcare careers?

Emma Dodsworth from the Nuffield Trust explains why young people aren’t going into healthcare degrees.
16 February 2024 Media releases

16 February 2024 Media releases

Huge interest among young people in NHS careers

A major new survey, published today, shows that ambitious plans to recruit thousands of extra healthcare professionals will likely only succeed if greater financial support is offered to students and these careers are made more appealing.
24 June 2024 Health and wellbeing

24 June 2024 Health and wellbeing

Enabling student health and success

We have published a report covering the work of our taskforce into tackling supply and demand for drugs in the context of student health and wellbeing.
3 December 2024 Publications

3 December 2024 Publications

NHS 10 year plan consultation

This is a joint response to the NHS 10 Year Plan Consultation from Universities UK (UUK) and GuildHE.
5 June 2025 Data

5 June 2025 Data

How are universities delivering the future NHS workforce?

Policy Adviser, Horia Teodorescu looks at the data on the health workforce pipeline, exploring what is required for a future sustainable NHS workforce.

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