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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.

Healthwatch Worcestershire decided to speak with patients being looked after in corridor areas about their experience and what might be done to improve it. The purpose of these visits was to follow up on the implementation of our recommendations as set out in the WAHT Action Plan produced in 2017.

Healthwatch Worcestershire's request for information from Worcester City Council re death of a rough sleeper

Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter ref: Terms of Reference for the Thematic Review of Rough Sleeper Deaths

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (WAHT) invited Healthwatch Worcestershire (HWW) to assist them to understand patient experience at the Fracture Clinics so that this could also inform their Action Plan.

This work has been carried out to gather feedback from young people, parents and carers about their experiences of accessing mental health support and the progress made by Worcestershire’s Transformation Plan. In addition to gather feedback about access to CAMHS and the quality of the CAMHS service, we aimed to find out what other support young people and parents were aware of and had received.

Healthwatch Worcestershire looked at new model of support for adults with mental health issues, implemented by Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (WHCT)

See our submissions to Parliament about NHS Dentistry and our letter to the NHS about NHS Dentistry during Covid 19.

Our Report describes people’s experience of Going to the Dentist in Worcestershire. Looking in particular at how regularly people attend; understanding of treatment available on the NHS and charges; people’s experience at the dentist and their knowledge of complaints procedures.

Worcester City Council's Independent review into the death of an individual sleeping rough

Our aim was to understand the whole process of how people contacted and experienced social work services.
Healthwatch Worcestershire sought the cooperation of the Worcestershire County Council to enable this to take place.