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Student Volunteering Week runs from the 10-16 February 2020. The aim of the week is to celebrate student volunteers, and further promote volunteering opportunities in the local community. -
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Warmdene Couty Oak Medical Centre Update -
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Coronavirus Update -
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New organ opt out system in England starts on 20 May 2020 -
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We are pleased to publish a new report which provides information on the projects we are undertaking at present, and those we hope to deliver over the next year and beyond. We will review these and provide further updates as these become available. -
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Today we announce the publication of our review of all GP practices and surgeries across the City. -
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Today we publish a review of all GP practices and surgeries in the City. -
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Coronavirus briefing
This information has been produced by Brighton and Hove City Council to reduce scam and fraudulent activity -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove worked alongside Young Healthwatch to gather the views and opinions of BAME young people, aged 17-25 and living in Brighton and Hove around local sexual health services and STIs. -
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How to request help online if you need it -
Press release: Covid-19 - Healthwatch publishes essential updates on health and social care services
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Covid-19: Healthwatch publishes essential updates on health and social care services -
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The COVID health crisis is understandably drawing public scrutiny and press attention. Local services and providers are facing unprecedented challenges and are adapting quickly to emerging issues. -
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"This is a really interesting role as no query is the same and often a fair bit of research is needed to come up with an answer or a way forward. At the same time, its a way of identifying developing healthcare trends for Healthwatch to investigate." -
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Our core work is to gather patient opinion on health and social care services from across the community. The Equality Impact Assessment presents the degree to which the reports we publish reached out to the ‘protected characteristics groups’. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducts an annual survey of stakeholders in order to understand their awareness of Healthwatch and assess their views on our activities over the previous year. -
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This performance report describes the role Healthwatch Brighton and Hove played in supporting patients and local health and social care services during the COVID-19 crisis. We have focused in this report on our activity from early January to April -
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As a local Healthwatch, we have the legal right to visit health and adult social care services that are publicly funded to find out about people's experiences. This Enter & View Policy explains how that works. -
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Now more than ever, looking after our own mental health, and loved ones, friends, neighbours and employees is so important. The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week this year is Kindness. -
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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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"Since joining, I have had the privilege of meeting a wide range of people who rely on social care. Meeting people in their own homes has blown away any preconceptions and given me a whole new perspective of 'old' and 'vulnerable'." -
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"I am excited to be a part of new Young Healthwatch projects in the future and influencing decision-making, and making a difference for young people." -
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We are pleased to present information on maternity and pregnancy from Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group and Brighton and Hove Maternity Voices Partnership -
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Over the summer of 2019, Healthwatch Brighton & Hove conducted research to gain a better insight into information that is available to people who are looking to make a complaint, raise a concern or provide feedback about health & social care services -
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Cancer services in Sussex during COVID-19 and what this means for you - a free webinar.
Thursday 11th June 2020 @ 5pm (1 hour) -
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Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the contribution people make across the UK through volunteering. -
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Since the pandemic there have been many concerns around getting cancer treatment and support. Healthwatch Sussex heard from cancer experts about their latest advice. Read more to find out what they said. -
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"I wanted to give something back to the NHS for the privilege of being employed by it for so many years. From my experience in working within the NHS, I believed I had something to offer as a Healthwatch volunteer." -
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COVID-19 – helping informal carers understand what to expect if someone they are looking after needs to go into hospital or a home -
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Healthwatch in Sussex - a collaboration between local Healthwatch from Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, and West Sussex - arranged for cancer patients and their families to have their questions answered by three cancer experts. -
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These are the board papers for the Board of Directors meeting held on 15th June 2020. The meeting was held online using Zoom. -
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From 15 June 2020, it is the law that you must wear a face covering when travelling in England on a:
bus or coach,
rain or tram,
ferry or hovercraft or other vessel,
aircraft
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Cancer patients and their families had the opportunity to talk to experts about what to expect from cancer services during the pandemic. -
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Our Annual Report for the period to March 2020, highlighting the work and achievements over the past year, which includes the impact Coronavirus and COVID-19 has had on our organisation. -
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Since the coronavirus was recognised as a global pandemic, and particularly since lockdown was announced in England on 23 March, we have been presented with an ever-increasing amount of data describing the impacts of the virus (COVID-19). -
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Working closely with the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and local NHS Trust, we launched an outpatients’ booking survey in January 2020. -
Environmental Audits of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust: April 2019 to March 2020
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Since December 2016, we have worked in partnership with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust to conduct monthly visits across the estate. -
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We have been working in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Sussex Health and Care Partnership. Learn more in the article below. -
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Welcome to our second report which examines the outcomes from the annual Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment programme (PLACE).
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Since the coronavirus was recognised as a global pandemic, and particularly since lockdown was announced in England on 23 March, we have been presented with an ever-increasing amount of data describing the impacts of the virus (COVID-19). -
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Healthwatch bulletin on Health and Social Care & COVID-19
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This performance report describes Healthwatch Brighton and Hove activities from May to June 2020. -
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We recently received the following from Healthwatch England. If you know anyone who might be interested please do let us know, we are happy to put people in touch with Healthwatch England. There would be no commitment or obligation -
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Find out what NHS services have been told about returning services to near pre-COVID-19 levels, preparing for winter and locking in the benefits that the response to COVID-19 has resulted in. -
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Welcome to another Healthwatch Health, Social Care and COVID-19 Bulletin for the 21st August 2020 -
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These are the board papers for the Board of Directors meeting held on 10th August 2020. The meeting was held online using Microsoft Teams.