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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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"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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"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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"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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The notes from our board of governors development meeting on 14th April 2014. -
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The notes from our board of governors development meeting on 8th April 2019 -
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The notes from our board of governors development meeting on June 17th 2019 -
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We have today released an interim report from the Healthwatch in Sussex public survey on digital consultations, combined with results from the Sussex CCG‘s survey on NHS communications with patients (where comparable questions were used). -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove’s first Annual Report, for the period April 2013 to March 2014. -
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Our Annual Report for the period to March 2015. -
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Our Annual Report for the period to March 2016. -
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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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Sussex Interpreting Services (SIS) exists to enable full access, for people with language needs, to publicly funded services in order to improve health, education and overall quality of life -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is a new independent health watchdog run by and for local people. It is independent of the NHS and the Council. -
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In October 2013 Healthwatch Brighton and Hove completed a report on patient experiences of urgent healthcare in the city -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducted a survey of urgent care services in the area, which included pharmacy, GP Surgeries, Brighton Station Health Centre, GP Out of Hours Service, NHS 111, Emergency Dental Service, Accident & Emergency -
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Physiotherapy is a type of therapy that can help ill, injured or disabled people recover movement and function to their full potential. Healthwatch has surveyed 86 people in Brighton and Hove who recently or current receive physiotherapy locally -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove decided to take a practical look at how GP surgeries were giving their out of hours information. On the back of the recommendations laid out in the report about urgent care in the city. -
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Healthwatch looked into this data that suggested people were being discharged in a rushed and in some cases incomplete manner from the Royal Sussex County Hospital -
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Over the last year we have heard talk of dissatisfaction and frustration about the local CAMHS service, therefore this led us to look into it in more detail -
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This was a follow up report to the report that was done last year regarding urgent care in the city -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will creat an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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On Monday January 19th 2015 HWES and B&H undertook unannounced enter and view activity to three wards and the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) simultaneously at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will create an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will create an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will create an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will create an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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This report was part of a combination of six reports, by combining all six reports they will create an overall report which will be shared with the council, looking at how people would like to spend their time in our local social care services. -
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The purpose of this report was to look at the following themes: quality of care, access to information, and staff attitudes, in four older people’s wards at Royal Sussex County Hospital. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is undertaking a programme of visits to GP Practices across the city during 2015. In total we will visit 15 GP practices, including 3 pilot visits in March 2015. This report is based on one of our pilot visits. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is undertaking a programme of visits to GP Practices across the city during 2015. In total we will visit 15 GP practices, including 3 pilot visits in March 2015.This report on our Links Road surgery is one of our pilot -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove is undertaking a programme of visits to GP Practices across the city during 2015. In total we will visit 15 GP practices, including 3 pilot visits in March 2015. This report is based on one of our pilot visits. -
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This report gave respondents a chance to review HWB&H performance as well as provide some input into the HWB&H work plan for 2015-16 -
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This report is about exploring young people and children about their understanding of their NHS Constitutional rights as a patient -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducted a review of GP practices between July and September 2015 gathering patient perspectives on the quality of care provided in the city. -
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This project was prompted by the Care Quality Commission visits to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 2014 and 2015. The purpose of this report is to offer the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust and the CQC a lay view -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducted Enter and View visits to five care homes in February and March 2016. The programme was organised in response to concerns raised about the quality of primary health care for care home residents in B&H -
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In June 2016 Healthwatch Brighton and Hove agreed with the Chief Executive Officer of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust (BSUH) to conduct a review of some of the outpatient departments (OPD) at the Royal Sussex County Hospital -
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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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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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Are you a young person aged 17-24 from a Black, Asian or Ethnic Minority background? -
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In 2019 Healthwatch visited 20 care homes across Brighton and Hove. We spoke to care staff and to residents. We wanted to know how staff assessed residents for oral health. -
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The role of the local pharmacist has been transformed over the last few years. -
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As recent news stories have highlighted, the ability to access a GP varies widely across the country. In Swale in Kent there is only one GP for every 3,300 patients, while in Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire it is just under one for every 1,200.