Healthwatch Newsletter - Aug 2022

Welcome to our August 2022 Healthwatch newsletter. This includes information about our work, updates on health, social care and COVID-19.
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Hello, welcome to our bulletin on health and social care and COVID-19. This is attached as a separate document for you to click on and download. 

We hope you are all keeping well.

This month, in our main bulletin:

- Read about our Chief Officer vacancy.

- Read our press release on the downgrading of the Royal Sussex County Hospital A&E department.

- Read about how your feedback is improving care for long covid. 

- Share your experience of audiology services in Sussex.

- Read about improving access to housing for people with mental health needs. 

- Share your views about the Autumn vaccination booster.

Also within our bulletin, you can read advice and information on health and social care. Read a range of articles including: Healthwatch Sussex are asking people to share with us their experiences of Long COVID, a survey about completing the Bowel FIT tests, a healthy lifestyle's active forever campaign, an NHSE leak which reveals 1million patients are on a hidden waiting list and free sexual health vending machines in place across the city.