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What would you do to make dementia support better?
Dementia Champion and Healthwatch chair urges you to share your views to help improve care for people with dementia in your community. Healthcare in...
Have your say on how health information should be shared to support safer care
The changes planned in health and social care over the next decade, from reducing premature births to helping people live healthier, longer and more...
Young Entrepreneur urges people to have their say about changes to the NHS
Healthcare in the East Riding of Yorkshire will only work if people get to have their say – urges young business owner Freya Harvey. 21-year-old...
Listening in Goole
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire spent the day on the Public Health bus in Goole to get feedback about local services Below is a video of the highlights of the day
Four things your pharmacist can help you with
With increased pressure on NHS services across the country, pharmacists have a vital role to play in helping people manage their health. Pharmacists do a lot more than dispense medication, but not everyone knows about the range of other services they offer. Research Healthwatch England commissioned...
Future of urgent care services discussed by health bosses
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has today, 19 December 2017, announced its intention to progress with implementing plans to transform urgent care services across the East Riding area. This follows a three month public consultation from October 2016 to January 2017 on the...
Stay well this winter, don’t get caught without medicines
Christmas and New Year can be a busy time, which makes it easy to miss checking on your medicine supplies. So local GPs are asking people to order repeat prescriptions early to make sure they have enough to tide them over the holiday period when some GP practices and pharmacies are closed. GP...
Healthwatch Stakeholder Forum December 2017
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire is held its Stakeholder Forum this December. The event aimed to bring together all those working to involve patients and the public in the design and delivery of health and social care across the East Riding of Yorkshire. It provided opportunities to network and...
Volunteer Development Day 2017
Healthwatch East Riding held our Volunteer development day in December 2017. On the day we had guest speakers, team building activities and worked together to see what wonderful things we could achieve in 2018! Take a look at what went on.
Independent NHS panel confirms CCG plans for Urgent Care
The Urgent Care review proposals by the East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group were first unveiled earlier this year. The plans to change a number of minor injury units across East Yorkshire have been given the go-ahead by an independent NHS panel, which may affect residents in parts of the East...
Can you explain the STP?
Helping the public understand future plans for the NHS is often complicated by acronyms and jargon that are difficult to translate into plain English. Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire (HWERY), the independent watchdog for health and social care services in the East Riding, has come up with an...
World AIDS Day – Yorkshire MESMAC Human Red Ribbon Event
Let's End It End isolation End stigma End HIV transmission This World AIDS Day join the fight to end the negative impact of HIV. This year in the UK there have been the first significant reductions in HIV diagnoses for gay men in London, thanks to frequent testing, rapid treatment and PrEP. Let’s...
This week is Self-Care Week
Self-Care Week is an annual national awareness week that focuses on establishing support for self-care across communities, families and generations. More needs to be done to support people to better look after their own health. Empowering individuals to self-care has many benefits for their short...
Healthwatch England publishes annual report to Parliament
• Over 300,000 people share experiences of hospitals, GPs and care homes with Healthwatch in 2016/17. • Their stories form the basis of new report to MPs on the state of health and care services in England. • Findings show a real mix of feedback, with some people continuing to receive outstanding...
NHS needs to do more to understand why people are returning to hospital after being discharged
• New analysis shows emergency readmissions rose by a fifth since 2012/13 • Over 500,000 cases recorded in 2016/17 • 1 in every 5 emergency readmissions take place in the first 48 hours As part of a broader investigation into people’s experiences of leaving hospital, Healthwatch England is today...
CQC completes initial review of mental health services for children and young people
The report of the first phase of a Government-commissioned review of mental health services for children and young people in England has been officially released today (Friday 27 October). The report is the first phase of a major thematic review requested by the Prime Minister in January 2017. CQC...
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Consultation
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Is Out For Consultation Monday 2 October 2017 – Friday 1 December 2017 You are invited to give your feedback via our internet survey page which can be found along with the draft East Riding PNA Consultation documents at: http://dataobs.eastriding.gov.uk/pna Hard...
How can the East Riding support the mental health of working age men?
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire have been running a project encouraging working age males to share their experience mental health and mental health services in the East Riding of Yorkshire. ‘Silent Partners’ is a report which aims to highlight how working age men think about mental health and...
Hospices offering more ‘Outstanding’ care than other services regulated by CQC
Hospice care across England has the highest percentage of services rated ‘Outstanding’, according to a new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The State of Hospice Services in England, 2014 to 2017 published during Hospice Care Week and ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day...
Healthwatch Visit Humber Centre Mural
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire recently visited The Humber Centre to see first-hand the Mural being created by the staff, service users and family. We first heard about the project when we spoke to the team at the Humber NHS Foundation Trust AGM. It looked and sounded like a fantastic project...
Get Online Roadshow
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire’s Information Service provides free one-to-one training for individuals on how to find and use health and social care information on-line. This October we are supporting the national 2017 ‘Get Online’ campaign by running events in partnership with East Riding of...
People share their experiences of being discharged from hospital
A new briefing launched today – ‘What happens when people leave hospital and other care settings?’ – outlines where important steps have been made towards improving the discharge process for patients. However, the 2,083 people’s stories used to compile the findings also continue to show significant...
National LGBT Survey
The Government Equalities Office and Department for Education have launched a survey to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people living in the UK. This survey asks about: •your experiences of accessing and using public services in the UK •any experiences of...
Getting flu jab is best way to protect everyone, says Public Health England
Public Health England has stressed the importance of being vaccinated against flu, as NHS leaders are warned to brace themselves for a ‘pressurised’ flu season this winter. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens told delegates at the Expo conference in Manchester last Tuesday: “For the next...
East Riding GPs asked to keep things simple when seeking patient feedback
People are confident that GPs take their comments and concerns seriously, yet 3 out of 4 (76%) have never given feedback, most commonly because they don’t know how to. A new online poll suggests those looking to share views with their doctor prefer comment boxes and text messages to social media...
Local GPs invite the community to be part of the conversation at AGM
Local doctors and members of general practices in the Vale of York are inviting the local community to its Clinical Commissioning Group's (CCG) fourth Annual General Meeting (AGM). Patients and members of the public who attend the AGM will hear an overview of the local health and care system’s...
Humber NHS Foundation Trust holds members meeting and AGM at the KC stadium.
Healthwatch East Riding attended the Humber FT Annual General meeting. There was an opportunity to browse the many market stalls showcasing the Trusts work. Healthwatch took the opportunity to engage with as many different strands of the service as we could. Many of the stalls related to mental...
Public invited to hear about progress their local NHS Trust is making
Patients and members of the public are invited to a series of events to hear updates from their local NHS Trust. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) is hosting engagement events for members of the public to find out about progress being made at the Trust and the improvement...
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