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During Covid-19 Worcestershire County Council’s Public Health team identified the need to provide information about Covid-19 and access to support to younger people in particular.

The Community Assessment and Recovery Service (CARS) is a model of Community Mental Health Services within Worcestershire.

A response from H&W CCG response to Healthwatch Worcestershire – Use of ReSPECT forms and Do Not Resuscitate assessment for people with a learning disability

Worcestershire County Council's reply to Healthwatch Worcestershire response to the publication of Worcestershire’s Care Home Support Plan

Worcestershire County Council's response to Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter re Care Home and Domiciliary Care

Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter to Director of Public Health re PHE Review Covid-19

Healthwatch Worcestershire's response to Worcestershire County Council's Care Home Support Plan

The Covid-19 Survey was aimed at the general public was developed, in collaboration with the NHS and Worcestershire County Council (WCC), based on Healthwatch England’s template to find out people’s experiences of health and care service during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Healthwatch Worcestershire's Letter to Worcestershire County Council re Care and Nursing Home and Domiciliary Care Sector in Worcestershire during Covid-19

The Stonewall report LGBT in Britain - Health Report (2018) and the House of Commons Women and Equality Committee report (2019) identified that in spite of the strides made towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality in recent years, many LGBT+ people face significant barriers to leading healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.

In November 2018, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health & Social Care identified that:

• Many prisons are unsafe, with incidences of violence and self-harm at a record-high

• Prisons, as a result of staff shortages and overcrowding, are limiting prisoners’ access to healthcare and their ability to lead healthy lives

In the NHS Long Term Plan there is a commitment to improving people’s health through prevention and
encouraging people to live healthy lives. It stresses the importance of giving everyone a healthy start in life.