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Read about our visit to Park Vista Care Home on 20 October 2016 using our legal power to enter and view. -
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You are welcome to attend this meeting which will be held in public 7pm - 9pm, Wednesday 18 January at The Meadows Community Centre, 1 St Catharine’s Road, Cambridge, CB4 3XJ -
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Report following our visit to Peterborough City Hospital on 3 October 2016 to see how they are providing accessible information for disabled people. -
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NHS Foundation Trusts are accountable to patients and members of the public who have the right to become members. Find out how to get involved and have a say on what happens in our local NHS Trusts. -
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Read about our visit to Clayburn Court Care Home on 14 November 2016 using our legal power to enter and view. -
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You are welcome to attend this meeting which will be held in public 7pm - 9pm, Wednesday 15 March at The Maple Centre, 6 Oak Drive, Huntingdon, PE29 7HN -
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Our report into the treatment choices and preferences of heart patients at Peterborough City Hospital. -
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Enzo Petruziello works to ensure people with disabilities can access the services they want and need. He provides disability awareness training and encourages friends with disabilities to speak up about their needs. -
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Come to our first Board Meeting as a combined Healthwatch for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. -
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New report looks at young people’s attitude towards and understanding of mental health in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. -
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It was wonderful to see lots of people at the Healthwatch Peterborough Annual Conference today (Thursday 8 June), giving us a chance to let people know how we have been serving them over them over the past year. -
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Annual General Meeting for Healthwatch Cambridgeshire. -
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Healthwatch Peterborough is here to understand the lived experiences of people who use health and social care services in the city and to make sure their voices are heard and responded to. This report demonstrates how we have worked to achieve that. -
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We are helping to get wheelchair users and carers involved in making wheelchair services work better for them. -
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The proposed IVF funding cuts are against national guidance, will affect poor people the most and may not save the planned £700,000 per annum from local NHS budgets. -
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You are welcome to attend this meeting which is held in public 7pm - 9pm, Wednesday, 13 September, The Fleet, Fleet Way, High Street, Fletton, PETERBOROUGH, PE2 8DL -
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A new autism service for young people is due to start in the autumn thanks to the lobbying of Pinpoint, our Healthwatch and the National Autistic Society. -
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Young people need more flexible, creative solutions to give them the information and support they need to stay mentally well. -
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Health and care services are not always offering people with sensory and learning disabilities information in a format they can understand. The law says that they must do this.
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At this meeting we will be talking about our Accessible Information as Standard report, published 8 November 2017. -
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Peterborough resident Peter Skivington has lent his support to Healthwatch’s campaign to help improve information given to disabled people.
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A successful launch event shows there is still much to do to achieve Accessible Information as Standard
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Read about our visit to Boroughbury Medical Centre on 11 July 2017 using our legal power to enter and view. -
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New members are wanted on the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Partnership Boards. Could you use your knowledge and experience of using social care to help others? -
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More than eighty-five thousand people are now waiting for hospital care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Although this may be just the tip of the iceberg and some are ‘missing’ from this count as they’ve not come forward for treatment. -
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Our January meeting includes a report about the pandemic experiences of local families with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
We'll also be welcoming three new Directors to the Board. -
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Parent carers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are under severe strain looking after their children and young people with additional needs and disabilities. -
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Three new Directors have joined the Healthwatch Board. And Associate Director Chelsia Lake also becomes a Director. -
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The new award-winning palliative care hub was top of the agenda at last week's Peterborough Health and Care Forum. We also heard about some of the latest research into improving the quality of life for older people after cancer. -
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We're looking for volunteers from across Peterborough to help make care better for people with disabilities, older people and family carers.
If you've got lived experience of using social care services, your experience could really help others. -
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Care from your GP surgery, difficulties finding an NHS dentist and waits for hospital appointments are amongst the top experiences you've been sharing with us over the last three months. -
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Clear, understandable information is important to help you make the right health and care decisions. Join our campaign and have your say on what needs to change. -
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We're recruiting volunteers to help improve care services for local people with sight and hearing loss. Like to get involved? -
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Our March meeting includes an experiences report on NHS dentistry. This includes an update on the difficulties finding and accessing a dentist – which we first highlighted in 2019 – and the steps being taken to address the problem. -
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Continuing NHS dentistry issues, the closure of an NHS Patient Helpdesk supporting people waiting for care, and healthcare for Ukrainian refugees in our area were among the topics discussed at our March Board meeting yesterday. -
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Our new report, Life in a care home, is published today. And tells the experiences of people living at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic and their friends and families. -
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Our new Life in a care home report, published today, has been welcomed by local councils and our local NHS as "important" and providing "valuable insights". -
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Read the minutes from the meetings of the Carers' Partnership Board from the last year. -
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Read the minutes from Physical Disability Partnership Board over the last year. -
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Free testing for coronavirus (Covid-19) from the NHS has ended for most people in England. -
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Read about the issues being discussed by our Older People's Partnership Board over the last year. -
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Read about the issues the Learning Disability Partnership Board has been discussing over the last year. -
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Read more about the issues discussed by the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board this year.