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Report following our visit to Broadleigh Care Home on 5 February 2016 using our legal power to enter and view. -
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We have worked with male and female inmates at the city’s combined prison to improve their health and wellbeing and engage with health and care users whose voices are often not heard. -
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Report following our visit to Lavender Care Home on 16 March 2016 using our legal power to enter and view. -
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Welcome to the third annual report for Healthwatch Peterborough. -
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The wheelchair service in Peterborough is often poorly co-ordinated, with people waiting too long for wheelchairs and repairs says a new report published today. -
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Read about our visit to Cherry Blossom Care Home on 26 September 2016 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. -
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Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed. -
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The Accessible Information Standard is mandatory for all organisations that provide National Health Service (NHS) or adult social care. Here’s some key information about the accessible communications you should expect from services. -
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If you have a disability, impairment or sensory loss, the Accessible Information Standard gives you a right to health and care information in the way you need it – as well as communications support at appointments. -
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A new survey of public attitudes to NHS dentistry shows that half of the adults in England find dental charges unfair amid escalating living costs. Healthwatch has warned decision-makers that NHS dentistry is in desperate need of reform. -
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Championing Access - this year the spotlight is on equal access to health and care services. And on the big changes to how NHS and care services are working. -
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Join the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board and help improve health and social care services for people with sensory impairments. -
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GP care, difficulties finding an NHS dentist and hospital outpatient appointments are the top three topics that people talked to us about last month. -
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At our June meeting, we will be looking at people's experiences of non-emergency patient transport, as well as receiving an update on our community engagement programme and the Adult Social Care Partnership Board project. -
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It has been another extraordinary year as Covid-19 has continued to affect everyone’s lives. Our Annual report tells some of our stories from the last twelve months and the difference you’ve made by sharing your experiences of care. -
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Our Annual Report for 2021-22 is published today and highlights the work of our Healthwatch over the last year and shows how your feedback has helped influence improvements in health and care services.