Guide: Set-Up, Recruitment and Management of Volunteers in the NHS.

“This guidance offers practical support and information for NHS providers to enable them to support the strategic ambition to grow and develop volunteering in the NHS. It will help providers develop the right processes, procedures and frameworks to support quality volunteering opportunities that make an impact achieve a balance in their approach; ensuring effective processes for recruitment and management of volunteers are in place without creating unnecessary barriers or being too riskaverse ensure that the approach is accessible and inclusive, there are opportunities for a diverse range of people and volunteers reflect the communities in which we work. This includes involving people who experience the most health inequalities as volunteering can help to reduce these identify existing good practice and develop a framework based on Investing in Volunteers, a recognised standard for volunteer management also recommended by the Lampard Inquiry as a way for NHS trusts to formally review their volunteering programmes.”