Somerset patient group, pharmacists and GPs add their support for this year’s National Self-Care Week. (12 to 18 November 2018) You wouldn’t call an ambulance if you had a cold, or go to a busy hospital Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) with a sore toe?...

The county’s independent health and care champion Healthwatch Somerset is calling for the area’s NHS non-emergency phone line to provide better communication with the public. Long waiting times, repetitive assessment questions and ‘robotic’ phone operatives were just...

New Healthwatch Somerset volunteer Stephen Sharples is urging people in Somerset to be more actively involved in the decisions around their health and wellbeing. Stephen, from Langport, moved to the area last year and previously chaired a successful Patient...

People in Somerset are being urged to give their views on using the county’s 111 non-emergency phone line. There’s just over two weeks left to take part in a survey run by the county’s independent health and care champion Healthwatch Somerset. Over 500 people have...

If you are interested in finding out more and being involved in learning more about the Health and Care Strategy (Fit For My Future) please save the date - 4 September (1pm to 4pm) at Victoria Park Community Centre, Bridgwater. This will be an opportunity to: Hear...

Staff and volunteers from Healthwatch Somerset have been involved in talks around the new Somerset Health and Care Strategy. Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) organised a one-day workshop in July at St Gregory Village Hall to hear the views of the public and...

People with a passion for seeing local health and social care services changed for the better are being sought by the county’s independent health and social care champion. Healthwatch Somerset, which has an important role in assessing the quality of local health and...

The NHS is looking to reduce the number of interventions they do that don’t always work. Interventions refer to some surgeries or treatments that doctors prescribe, without any special approval. Up until now, the NHS has used these interventions to treat patients, but...

Somerset County Council are inviting residents, organisations and communities to have their say on health and wellbeing priorities in the county. The results from this consultation will inform a joint ‘Improving Lives’ strategy which sets out how all members of the...