News and reports

🧠💚 Mental Health Awareness Week | 12–18 May 2025 💚🧠

This year's theme is 'Community', below you will find some useful links to mental health community support in Worcestershire.

This event has now taken place on Thursday 22nd May at 10 am and our Public Board Meeting at 2:15pm.

This meeting has now taken place.

Below you will find the meeting agenda and enclosures.

This meeting has now taken place.

Below you will find the meeting agenda, enclosures and links to YouTube videos of the presentations given by our guest speakers.

Community pharmacies are often the first point of contact for people seeking help with minor ailments. They provide vital services like the new “Pharmacy First” scheme, which allows pharmacists to prescribe certain medicines without a GP visit. We wanted to understand how accessible pharmacy services are, how aware people are of the range of services that pharmacy provides, and any barriers they face. We surveyed 555 people across Worcestershire, including workshops for 55 members of SpeakEasy N.O.W., a learning disability charity, to gather people’s experiences of pharmacy services.

Join us for our online Public Board meeting

On the morning of Thursday 10th October 2024 Healthwatch Worcestershire is holding its Annual Conference as a Public Board meeting. This will be the first Public Board Meeting we have held in person since we moved to holding our Public Board meetings online at the beginning of the Covid epidemic.

To see our packed agenda, please click on the links below

Our latest annual report highlights our impact on health and social care services in Worcestershire over the past 12 months.

As a County with a higher than average older population the challenge which dementia presents for the individual, their carers, our communities and for the health and care system locally is set to increase.

Through this work we have heard of both the positive aspects of care and support provided to people living with dementia and their loved ones and also some of the struggles and issues encountered.

Our complaints guides give you the information and contact details that you need to make a complaint about publicly funded health and social care services in Worcestershire.

Sometimes health and social care services use abbreviations, words and phrases that many of us find difficult to understand.

If you are looking for social care in Worcestershire and don't know where to start, these organisations listed below may be able to help.