News and reports

Small and simple changes can help make a big difference to people's experiences of health and social care. Find out how a hospital has helped make visits easier for children after one mum spoke up.

The Healthwatch network heard from 341,000 people last year about what they think of health and social care services. Today we share a summary of what people like and what could be improved, via our fifth annual report to Parliament, Speak Up.

Our network of 152 local Healthwatch published more than 1,745 reports in 2016-17, bringing together what people from across the community want from local care.

New figures show that emergency readmissions to hospital have risen by a fifth since 2012/13. Find out more about what our new analysis of emergency readmissions data tells us.

Find out what happened at our public Committee Meeting.

The Government's National Information Board's has published its vision that sets out what the board aims to deliver by 2020.

New report from CQC finds that too many children and young people have a poor experience of care and are unable to access timely and appropriate support.

45,000 people who received urgent and emergency services shared their views on their care with CQC. Find out what the results said.

Free flu vaccines for care home staff and increased number of jabs for young children in schools will be made available to try and increase the uptake of vaccinations this winter.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its annual analysis of the quality of health and adult social care in England for 2016/17.

As part of our work to understand people's experiences of leaving hospital, we have today published a new analysis of NHS emergency readmissions data

In the last two years, over 2,000 people have shared their experiences of leaving care with Healthwatch.