News and reports

Last year, Healthwatch supported over 336,000 people to share their story about health and social care. These views resulted in over 7,200 recommendations to services about the improvements that people would like to see.

Hospitals need to do more to show patients how the NHS is learning from mistakes. Read our latest report to find out more.

Here are some easy read resources to explain who we are and what we do.

Find out what the public has been telling us about health and social care from July to September this year.

This briefing also looks at emerging themes across services and examines what people have been telling us about support for incontinence.

Take a look at our papers for our November Committee Meeting.

Take a look at the award winning stories from this year's Healthwatch Network Awards.

Find out what's working well for people and what needs to improve when it comes to people's experiences of travelling to and from NHS appointments, in our new briefing.

Find out what's working well for people and what needs to improve when it comes to people about their mental health experiences before, during and after pregnancy, in our new report.

Find out what the public have been telling us about health and social care from April to June this year.

We asked the Healthwatch network what the most important health and social care issues were for local residents. Find out more.

Our findings suggest that councils are not currently making the most of their annual complaints reports as an opportunity to demonstrate how responsive they are to feedback. Read our report to find out more.

Take a look at our papers for our September Committee Meeting.