On Wednesday 10th July our Public Board meeting had a packed agenda. We first welcomed our new Co-opted Board members to the meeting. Healthwatch Worcestershire (HWW) now have representatives from Young Solutions; Families and Partnership; Sandycroft; St Pauls Hostel and The Swallow Head and Neck Cancer Support Group sitting on our Board as volunteers. The…
Last Thursday around 100 people from across Worcestershire attended our Annual Conference at Sixways Stadium, Worcester. Our conference gave people the opportunity to hear about what we have been doing over the last year, help us decide what we will work on between now and 2021 and hold local services to account during a question…
Healthwatch Worcestershire’s Directors and staff attend many meetings run by the NHS to keep up to date with what is happening to services locally and to ask questions. At last weeks Acute Trust Public Board Meeting we had an early insight into the current findings of the Care Quality Commissions (CQC) inspection of the hospital…
Healthwatch has seen a busy couple of weeks out and about talking to local people about how the changes in the NHS Long Term Plan could be implemented locally. The long term plan seeks to ensure the NHS is fit for the future and gets the most value for patients out of the taxpayers’ investment. …
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been talking to people across the county about their views on how the changes in the NHS Long Term Plan can be implemented locally. Members of the SpeakEasy N.O.W Forum had many suggestions about how changes could help people with a learning disability: find visiting the doctors…
