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People often need extra help from their council because of a disability, ill health or old age but they must have a care assessment first. Read what Healthwatch Cambridgeshire did when people told them they had to wait too long for an assessment.

Catch up on what happened at our event aimed to show how good public engagement leads to better health care services

The work of the Healthwatch network is recognised in new report from the Public Accounts Committee.

Catch up on what happened at our event aimed to show how good public engagement leads to better health care services.

With 23% of people in Leeds aged under 19, YouthWatch was created to help find out what young people want from local health and care services. We speak to three volunteers about why they got involved.

As part of our “Perspectives on primary care” series, which highlights the issues different people face, we hear what a group of young people have to say about their experiences of primary care.

In part two of our series on young volunteers, we find out why Healthwatch Leeds set up a volunteer programme for young people and how it has benefited local services.

Find out what happened at our public Committee Meeting.

One in five local Healthwatch have identified better maternity services as a priority for their communities in the past two years. We look at the work one local Healthwatch did to find out what women think a great maternity service looks like.

Maternity services in England must become safer, more personalised, kinder, professional and more family-friendly.

Recent reports have raised significant concerns about the quality and reliability of some home care services. Hear how one local Healthwatch has worked to gain an understanding of people's experiences of home care.

In the latest in our series of blogs looking at the issues different groups of consumers face when using primary care services, we share what we found when we spoke to a group of over 65s, in partnership with Healthwatch Surrey.