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What do you think about Somerset’s District Nursing Service? What works well and what could be improved?
Local health and social care champion, Healthwatch Somerset, wants to know what people think about the care they have received from Somerset’s District Nursing Service, to help the service develop and improve how it cares for local people. Somerset District Nursing...
Somerset’s maternity services improved by listening to local families
Last year, 900 people shared their experiences of maternity care with the Somerset Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP). In its first annual report, published today, the MVP highlights how they have worked with local families and care providers to improve the quality...
Healthwatch report highlights inconsistencies in NHS 111 service in Somerset and Devon
A report released today by independent local healthcare champions Healthwatch, shows that although the NHS 111 service in Somerset and Devon is rated highly by the public, there are inconsistencies in the quality of the service. 111 is the NHS non-emergency number....
Healthwatch Somerset asks young people ‘How could health and social care services work better for you?’
What’s it like being a young person using health, social care and wellbeing services in Somerset, and what changes do young people want to see? That’s what Healthwatch Somerset wants to find out, so they are recruiting young volunteers aged 11-24, to design and...
Healthwatch Somerset reveals what Somerset residents are saying about health and care during Covid-19
A new report out today from Healthwatch Somerset reveals local people’s experiences of health and social care during the first six months of Covid-19. It highlights common issues people have faced and how these have changed over time, and it identifies the challenges...
Local Healthwatch plea for public feedback on NHS 111 service
A new public survey has been launched to find out more about local people’s experiences of using the NHS 111 service in the region. 111 is the NHS non-emergency number. When you call 111 you speak to a highly trained telephone adviser, supported by healthcare...
Somerset care homes – before and during Covid-19: Healthwatch Somerset reports
Healthwatch Somerset has today published four reports about care homes in Somerset – three reporting on the quality of care in Somerset care homes prior to Covid-19 from a residents perspective, and a fourth looking at the challenges faced by care home staff during...
Testing times…..the national COVID-19 study and me
By Tanya Camberwell, Healthwatch Somerset Engagement Officer. Imagine my surprise when in the third week of July, I received a letter that I wasn’t expecting, and from the outside, appeared to be from NHS England. I was being asked to participate in a COVID-19...
Healthwatch Somerset launches #BecauseWeAllCare campaign, calling on local people to feedback about care during COVID-19 to help services improve
62% of people in South West ready to help improve health and social care after coronavirus Healthwatch Somerset has joined local and national health and care organisations calling on Somerset residents to give feedback about their care during coronavirus (COVID-19) to...
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