One of our roles is to gather experiences from people about using local health and social care services. Over the last 3 months we have spoken to over 1000 people. We attended events, visited groups, held our own events and visited services. This gives us the opportunity to find out people’s experiences, carry out surveys…
Last Wednesday evening we started our engagement with the LGBT+ community in Worcestershire by holding a focus group at the Hive in Worcester. We are really grateful to all those who came along to share their experiences of accessing local health services and to help us shape our upcoming survey and engagement. We will be…
Last week we attended the Healthwatch England Annual Conference in Birmingham. We asked questions relating to transparency of decision making and raised the importance of carers when we spoke to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS and Paul Burstow, Former Minister of State in the Department of Health. Last Friday we attended the AGM…
Thank you to everyone who came along and got involved at Worcester Pride on Saturday. It was a great atmosphere and a perfect opportunity for us to raise awareness of Healthwatch and gather important feedback from local people. Don’t forget Healthwatch Worcestershire wants to hear about your experiences of using local health and social care…
Healthwatch Worcestershire invites you to attend our next Public Board Meeting on Wednesday 11th September at The Civic Centre in Pershore. It will be an opportunity for you to hear about the work Healthwatch is doing, meet the Directors and the new Co-opted Board Members. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Deputy Chief Medical Officer Graham…
