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Thanks to your feedback, we’ve helped bring about meaningful improvements to local health and care services. Here are some of the ways your voice has made a difference:

Our June 2025 Board meeting will include an update on our activity since our meeting in March. Our Annual General Meeting will follow this Board meeting.

75% of children and young people who experience mental health problems aren't getting the help they need.

We regularly share our feedback reports with health and care leaders across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Each organisation receives detailed reports from the public, helping them understand people’s experiences and use this information to improve services and inform decisions.

This article focuses on tackling anxiety and highlighting the importance of taking care of your mental health.

We are thrilled to have been accredited with the Investing in Volunteers Award. This award is a UK quality standard for organisations working with volunteers.

We have launched our new mental health survey. We want to hear from young people aged 17 to 25 who have experience of mental health services — or from their family members, parents or carers. Get involved and have your say. We are offering a £15 Love2Shop voucher for your time!

Thank you to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association for creating this video for us.

We spoke to Annette Johnson, Deputy Practice Manager at Wansford Health Campus to understand what makes their appointment system work well for patients and how they ensure they can meet the needs of patients.

A round up of discussion and action points from our recent Peterborough Health and Care Forum held on the 27th March. If you missed this free public event, you can catch up on the details below.

Would you like to join our next Peterborough Health and Care Forum? It's on the 24th July at the Fleet Community Centre, Fletton, from 10am to 12:30pm. Everyone is welcome - just turn up! Refreshments available.

We are pleased to present the findings of our Life Changes Report, commissioned by Cambridgeshire South Care Partnership (CSCP). Building on previous research with Community Researcher Volunteers, this report looks into what support is needed for people going through life changes and will be used to help plan future services in local neighbourhoods.

Our strategy sets out what we think is most important for Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch Peterborough to do over the next five years.

After years of growing pressure on pharmacies — and 46,000 lost pharmacy hours here in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough — we’re pleased to see £617 million in new funding announced today by the Department of Health and Social Care and Community Pharmacy England.