News and reports

Carers play a vital role in supporting people who are frail, ill or disabled, but, in doing so, they often become vulnerable themselves. Find out four ways carers want to be better supported.

NHS England has released new statistics that show target to reduce delayed transfers of care to 3.5% has not been met.

When Healthwatch Trafford spoke to people with ME and CFS, they found that over 76% felt their GP didn’t understand their condition. Find out how they think support could be improved.

With social care services under pressure, the Government has announced it will publish a Green Paper on social care next summer.

Find out how one simple suggestion from deaf people in Dudley led to a better experience of visiting hospital.

Latest monthly data from NHS England shows that the proportion of delays caused by issues relating to social care have increased.

We are now developing our strategy for 2018 - 2023. This consultation document sets out our proposals for our future direction.

We need your views and ideas to make sure that health and social care services work better for everyone. Share your views and help shape our future strategy.

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.