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Healthwatch Wolverhampton Annual Report 2025/26: Speaking up for better care
Healthwatch Wolverhampton’s Annual Report 2025/26 highlights how they listened to over 4,400 people last year, supporting them to have their say to improve health and social care and to get information and advice about local services.
Dorothy House Hospice Care seeks to improve services for people with life-limiting illness
Dorothy House Hospice Care wants to hear from those with a life-limiting illness, their carers and families about what Day Services they think would improve their wellbeing.
National research launched on mental health statistics
The UK’s largest independent regulator of official statistics wants to hear from health professionals, charities, commissioners and researchers about how they access information on mental health in England.
Access to A&E care for people with a mental health condition: A Gloucestershire perspective
The aim of this work is to build a picture of mental health provision in these A&E departments from the point of view of those who have used the service (and their families/carers).
Training staff – making learning fun and interactive
We talk to Dr Sara Nelson, Head of Research and Insight about taking the terror out of focus groups.
New CEO pledges to ensure local voices are heard by those who have the power to change and deliver
The community interest company which runs the Healthwatch services in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer.
Council strategy aims to keep older people in their own homes for longer
This month, Gloucestershire County Council has published an Older People Care Home Strategy. The strategy was informed by a survey that was carried out by research consultancy Evolving Communities and the county’s independent health and social care champion Healthwatch Gloucestershire on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council.
Evolving Communities extends coverage of Healthwatch services
Evolving Communities has been awarded the contract to run Healthwatch services in Dorset.
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