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Healthwatch Service Experience Review
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire (HWERY), the independent watchdog for health and social care services in the East Riding, is undertaking a...
National Safeguarding Adults Week 18th - 24th November
Keeping adults safe from harm Safeguarding is everyone’s business Would you be able to identify modern slavery if you saw it? Or see if someone was a...
Unique celebration event set to showcase allied health professionals and social care workers.
Nominations sought for the first Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire AHP and Social Care awards Have you had a brilliant experience with a paramedic,...
Helping Hands - Reaching out and touching on peoples experiences of the NHS.
Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire (HWERY), the independent watchdog for health and social care services in the East Riding, was out engaging people at Driffield Show finding out how local health and social care services have helped the public. We often hear some negative stories about health and...
People in the East Riding to benefit from improved access to general practice services
Following a thorough procurement process NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has agreed to award a 5½ year contract to Yorkshire Health Partners Limited, (on behalf of the combined federation of local GP practices) from 1 October 2018. The contract, worth around £10...
Reusable cups introduced at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital
A hospital trust is introducing reusable cups to slash the number of disposable cups sold in its restaurants by 180,000 in two years. Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has brought in black and lime green reuseable cups in all of its outlets at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital...
Humber Celebrates Hull Pride
Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s Hull Pride! Over 50,000 people took to the streets to celebrate love and share their rainbow colours last weekend. Staff and family were invited to join the rainbow parade through Hull, with the Trust having a stand in Queens Garden where the day’s...
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) celebrates the announcement of their ‘Good’ rating from NHS England
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is celebrating the publication of NHS England’s annual assessment that demonstrates the CCG has improved its overall rating from ‘Requires improvement’ in 2016/17 to ‘Good’ for 2017/18. The improved rating reflects a positive year for the...
East Riding students proudly show what the NHS means to them
Primary and secondary school students across the East Riding took the chance to thank NHS staff and express exactly what the service means to them as the nation came together to celebrate 70 years since its creation. Students were given the opportunity to exercise their imagination to come up with...
5 Minutes Lost – A Social Action Project
Students at East Riding College recently completed a social action project by teaming up with Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire (HWERY) This project specifically looked at Smoking and garnered over 950 responses. This was a terrific platform for Healthwatch to support young people taking control...
Job Vaccancy Hull CVS
Services & Sector Development Lead Hours: 35 hours per week (full time), or part time negotiable for right candidate Location: The Strand, 75 Beverley Road, Hull, HU3 1XL Are you seeking an opportunity where you can make a difference to vital local causes, charities and communities? Our Sector...
Celebration of Life Event
City Health Care Partnership Community Interest Company (CIC), in conjunction with key Health & Social Care organisations from Hull & East Riding, are holding an event designed to allow Health Care and Social Care professionals to understand more about End of Life rituals associated with...
East Riding CCG want your views on musculoskeletal services
East Riding of yorkshire clinical commissioning group (ERYCCG) are seeking local views on ways to better support people with conditions affecting bones, ligaments, muscles and joints (for example back pain, shoulder and knee problems or muscular injuries). In particular, ERYCCG want to understand...
East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group encourages people with dementia signs and symptoms to get an early diagnosis
Over 5,000 people are currently living with dementia in the East Riding of Yorkshire and as an area with a growing older population; the CCG and its partners, throughout Dementia Action Week (21-27 May), want to raise awareness and encourage people who may be displaying signs and symptoms to get an...
Holderness GP Practices to Merge
Four practices have been working closely together on proposals to merge on 1st October 2018. Now one of the four practices - Eastgate Medical Group in Hornsea - has decided not to go ahead with the merger. The other three practices (Church View Surgery, Hedon Group Practice and South Holderness...
Citizen member – Humber, Coast and Vale Strategic Digital Board
An exciting new opportunity to shape the future of local health services in the Humber, Coast and Vale area. The role The Humber, Coast and Vale Partnership (STP) is establishing a Strategic Digital Board to lead and oversee our efforts to transform health and care through better use of digital...
Mind Mental Health Awareness Drop-ins
Did you know that next week is Mental Health Awareness Week? This year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is stress- with campaigns and events throughout the week highlighting the importance of talking about and managing stress. By being open and talking about mental health, it helps to...
Fair System? - Access to Primary Care
Improving access to GP services for people who are homeless Nationally the awareness of those who identify as homeless has been on the rise. With an increase in the number of homeless individuals, questions have been asked about how they access Primary Care, if and when they should need it. Issues...
Hospital services for the future
The Humber Acute Services Review Steering Group has published an Issues Paper to support public, patient and staff engagement in the work of their review of services. The purpose of this document is to set out some of the big challenges the NHS and other health and care bodies in the Humber area...
Adults with autism consultation
The East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is working with East Riding of Yorkshire Council to look at ways to improve the lives of adults with autism. A new draft strategy has identified a number of key areas we need to develop including: enhancing services in the East Riding...
Healthwatch Response to Urgent Care Changes
The East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (ERYCCG) has now introduced changes to Urgent Treatment Services. We at Healthwatch understand that there have been mixed feelings from the public about the changes but also understand the position from the ERYCCG. Health and social care...
Six ways we can improve services for people with autism
More than 1 in 100 people in the UK are on the autism spectrum. Find out what people with autism have told Healthwatch about the health and care support they’ve received, and what could be improved. For most people, going to the doctor or dentist is a routine experience. However, if you have autism...
Additional support required for local dementia charity
Dementia Friendly East Riding is a local registered charity based in the Beverley area and this month celebrates twelve months of supporting people with dementia, their carer`s and families. It`s success has led to a point where there is a need to recruit additional trustees and volunteers to help...
Hospitals’ recognised nationally for apprenticeship programme
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised nationally for the work it is doing to develop its workforce. It has developed an innovative apprenticeship scheme offering a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical training, which has seen more than 100 people sign up to...
National action required to ensure local services work together to support children and young people’s mental health needs
Too many children and young people find themselves at ‘crisis point’ before accessing mental health services because health care, education and other public services are not working together as effectively as they could to protect and support their best interests, a report from the Care Quality...
Dementia friendly film screening
Thursday 22nd MARCH 2018 PRESENTS Arrival 10.30 am for 11.15 am screening Beverley Parkway Cinema, Flemingate, Beverley £4 includes tea or coffee & biscuits (pay on the day or book in advance at parkwaycinemas.co.uk - all seats are unreserved) “Open to All” and includes dementia friendly...
New urgent treatment services available for East Riding of Yorkshire residents
People living in East Riding of Yorkshire will soon be able to take advantage of improved access to care and treatment for their minor injuries and illnesses with the opening of three Urgent Treatment Centres, open 16 hours and two 8 to 8 Centres in the East Riding. Urgent Treatment Centres From...
Improving access to GP services survey - Vale of York
Have your say – please give us five minutes of your time There is a national requirement to increase the access to GP services across England and Wales by providing evening (6:30pm - 8:00pm) and weekend appointments. Some surgeries in our area already provide a limited evening and weekend service...
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