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Healthwatch England recently celebrated the award of £500,000 in funding to promote public and patient engagement around the NHS Long Term Plan. -
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A number of people in the Brighton area have been sent fraudalent invoices claiming to be from Healthwatch Brighton and Hove. -
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How do Healthwatch Brighton and Hove choose its Work Programme? -
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Here at Healthwatch we represent the views of the people that use health and social care services in our city. Here is an update on our current projects across a range of services within the sector. -
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Healthwatch aims to help users of health and social care services have a say about the quality of their care. In doing so, we are particularly committed to helping disadvantaged communities have a voice. -
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Here at Healthwatch we represent the views of the people that use health and social care services in our city. Here is an update on our current projects across a range of services within the sector. -
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Young Healthwatch and the 'Right Here' YMCA Downslink Project took part in a flash consultation with the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), to find out what really matters to young people in relation to health and social care. -
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Our recent report highlighting the insensitive treatment of vulnerable people in PIP and ESA assessments is covered in local news. -
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Geoffrey Bowden talks with Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion & Co-leader of the Green Party. -
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The Healthwatch team have had a busy time over the first few months of 2018. As Spring approaches, staff have been bringing together new reports, sharing results and recommendations from large-scale projects and embarking on new programmes. -
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Healthwatch is delighted to welcome Christine D’Cruz to the Board. -
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Healthwatch is pleased to welcome Nick Gorvett to the team. -
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Healthwatch is pleased to welcome Jacqueline Goodchild to the team. -
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David Liley CEO of Healthwatch, made a video update in which he describes the role Healthwatch has played during the current coronavirus crisis. Watch it now. -
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Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the contribution people make across the UK through volunteering. -
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Healthwatch in Sussex today launches a new patient survey. We want to hear from people about their experiences of using Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services. Their ideas will help inform the commissioning of a future service. -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 21st August 2020 -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch health, social care and COVID - 19 update for the 4th September 2020 -
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Are you a young person aged 17-24 from a Black, Asian or Ethnic Minority background? -
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Healthwatch have been busy as ever and here are some of the things we have been up to -
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This year the launch of our Annual Report was a grand affair -
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Welcome to Christine D’Cruz
Healthwatch is delighted to welcome Christine D’Cruz to the Board. -
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Watch Geoffrey Bowden interview Imelda Redmond, who is the Director of Healthwatch England about what Healthwatch England does and the role in plays in Health and Social Care on the Vote -
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Geoffrey Bowden interviews James Bayliss who works for Young Healthwatch and YMCA talks about the relationships between these organisations and Healthwatch -
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Check out the latest edition of the Healthwatch magazine -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 18th September 2020 -
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Healthwatch has launched its patient survey on dental services. The survey is for people who used, or tried to use, any type of dental service after 25 March 2020 i.e. the date when routine dental services were forced to stop due to COVID-19 -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 2nd October 2020 -
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At the time of writing, there were 227 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the city in the week up to 12 October. That number is more than double the number in the previous week. -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 16th October 2020 -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 20th November 2020
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In 2020, we undertook 106 phone interviews to explore people's opinions of accessing health and social care services during the pandemic. In December 2020 we interviewed some of these people - Hear what they had to say about remote appointments. -
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Today, Healthwatch Brighton and Hove launches its report "Accessing dental services under COVID-19". -
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Enquiry Line has been set up in response to the increased number of email and telephone enquiries received by the Sussex CCGs since the start of the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme -
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Thinking ahead to the end of life is a sensitive subject that no one likes to think about. However, the better we plan the more likely we are to have a good send-off. -
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Welcome to our Healthwatch bulletin. This includes an update on the COVID-19 vaccination programme and our regular bulletin on health, social care and COVID data. -
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A webinar held in May openly discussed end of life care. Healthwatch Brighton and Hove and Local Healthwatch across Sussex, held a webinar on Wednesday, 12th May, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm, to openly discuss this sensitive and difficult issue. -
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The Government has published plans for tackling COVID-19 this autumn and winter. Healthwatch Engalnd explains what this means -
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Read the latest report presented by Healthwatch Brighton and Hove report on what the peoples opinions are towards remote consultation. -
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Lack of access to NHS dentistry has intensified as an issue for people over the last 18 months. Latest research from the Healthwatch network is a stark reminder that it is an issue decision-makers must react to now, to protect our health. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is searching for a successor to Fran McCabe, who currently leads the board and will be stepping down at the end of March after 8 years in the role.
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Our nation’s health faces enormous challenges. Find out in the Annual Healtthwatch England's Report to Parliament how your feedback has helped NHS and social care services improve care and their plans for the future.
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Latest TV’s Mark Walker chats to Frances McCabe (Chair) and Geoffery Bowden (Director) from Healthwatch Brighton and Hove to discuss a new position in the organisation, and a replacement for Frances when she steps down. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is working in partnership with Switchboard to deliver this project. The purpose of this survey is to understand LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of services such as GP surgeries, hospitals, and to improve feedback systems. -
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Sir Robert Francis QC to step down as our chair and from the Care Quality Commission Board -
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Current hospital backlogs have had a huge impact on patients waiting for treatment. But women, those on a low income or from an ethnic minority background, are more likely to have a worse experience of waiting for care. -
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We have launched our Annual Report for 2021-2022 -
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We are delighted to announce that Geoffrey Bowden has been appointed Chair of Healthwatch Brighton and Hove.