Health and care services need to be accessible for everyone, but those who are deaf often face problems. Healthwatch Bedford Borough share how they are working to achieve change in their area.
In the last 12 months local Healthwatch have been out in their communities putting on engagement events in libraries and supermarkets, visiting health and care facilities and running public surveys
Collectively they have spoken with / heard from an estimated 300,000 patients, care users and members of the public and have conducted more than 600 formal ‘Enter & View’ visits to hospitals, GPs and care homes.
The remarkable contribution local Healthwatch across the country have made to health and social care at a local and national level has been marked at the Healthwatch Network Awards of Achievement 2015.
Each local Healthwatch works in an area with its own unique issues but there are specific statutory activities which every local Healthwatch must undertake and it is important that this work is consistent.
As the All Party Parliamentary Group on Health meets to discuss patient complaints today, new poll reveals half of people who experience poor care want to complain but far fewer go on to do so.
New results show that only a fifth of Brits who experienced an incident of poor care wrote a letter of complaint.
The number of teenagers admitted to hospital with eating disorders, has nearly doubled in just three years. Two new videos aim to raise awareness of the impact of eating disorders on those affected by the conditions and their families.
The videos feature people from Dorset speaking about their experiences of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa, alongside friends and family talking about how they were also affected.
This report outlines the funding each local Healthwatch has received to deliver their statutory activities based on survey results from 148 local Healthwatch, working across 152 local authority areas.
People with mental health issues are often taken to police cells and are not given the help and support they need. We spoke to Healthwatch Kirklees who have worked to change this.