News and reports

Three new members have been appointed to our Healthwatch Board.

The Covid-19 vaccines are here and rolling out across our area. But please stay patient, our Healthwatch CEO Sandie Smith told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire listeners this week.

Join us online for our next Board meeting in public when we will be formally appointing three new Directors.
We'll also be discussing our work with children and young people including involving them in developing mental health services.

Hospital discharge is a complicated process. And the way people leave hospital across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough should work better for patients says our new report out today.

The way people are discharged from hospital across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough should work better for patients says our new report published today.

A new information checklist has been developed by our Healthwatch volunteers to help GP surgeries make their websites clear and accessible for patients.

It’s Carers’ Rights Day. Here, family carers Helen and Annie from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Carers’ Partnership Board – which works to improve local services for carers – share their tips and advice.

As NHS and care staff work hard to keep us safe, join our 'Because We All Care' campaign and help them protect people.

The Covid shutdown of dental services across our area aggravated existing problems around access to high street NHS dental care.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging people to continue with the lockdown rules and basic hygiene advice and not get distracted by news of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine progress.

Plans to relocate Peterborough’s Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) and GP Out of Hours Service to the city hospital site will go ahead – but not before next April at least.

Join us online for our next Board meeting in public. Our Directors will be hearing about our engagement work over the last 12 months.