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The national NHS and Care Volunteer Responders programme was first established as part of the Covid response, and then adapted to respond to other organisational pressures. However, a model that worked well in that national crisis is no longer the most cost- effective way of facilitating the important contribution of our much-valued volunteers, so NHS England has recently taken the decision to close the current programme. Instead, a new central recruitment portal for NHS volunteers will be fully launched this year, providing opportunities for the current pool of volunteer responders to continue to play their part. Volunteers will have had that information emailed to them recently.