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Southwark Faith and Health Programme - a project with Southwark Council
In March 2018 the Public Health team at Southwark Council commissioned Community Southwark to work with them to engage faith communities on how they can create stronger connections with health professionals to promote positive health messages.
30 March 2019
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Former Healthwatch Southwark manager Aarti speaking at public event
Annual Report 2017/2018
During 2017/18, we have worked on three out of five of our priorities; Timely access to GPs, Going Home and Help in a Mental Health Crisis.
19 June 2018
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Enhanced Rapid Response (ERR), Supported Discharge and Reablement Services - what are people’s experiences of these services?
In August 2017, we were approached by Southwark Adult Social Care (ASC) and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to gain feedback from people with lived experience of Enhanced Rapid Response (ERR), Supported Discharge and Reablement services.
31 March 2018
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Flyer for GP Access - CCG and Healthwatch Southwark joint event
Appointment systems at GP Practices
From October 2016 to February 2017 we spoke with 397 local people about what they thought HWS should focus on in 2017/18.
30 December 2017
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Winter Wellness event 2017 – Staying Well, Warm and Safe
We held this free public event on 13 December 2017, at Walworth Methodist Church. It was attended by at least 75 people and 11 organisations from the local community and voluntary sector and statutory services.
30 December 2017
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Accident and Emergency Services
We found through our work on GP access that some people use A&E instead of out-of-hour services which are available if their GP practice is closed.
25 December 2017
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GP Out-of-Hours Answerphone Messages (Updated)
Following an early report about the experiences of seldom-heard communities in accessing GPs, we carried out a review of GP out-of-hours answerphone messages.
29 June 2017
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Winter Communications
The six Healthwatch in South East London were commissioned to provide independent support to the NHS London region with the evaluation of the Transforming Primary Care Programme's winter communications programme.
30 May 2017
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Our new priorities for 2017/18
The Healthwatch remit is large - we cover both health and social care for children and adults – and therefore each local Healthwatch identifies priority areas to help channel resources into work that will achieve the greatest impact.
30 April 2017
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Going Home: Step Down Care at Lime Tree House
In 2016, Healthwatch Southwark were involved in speaking to patients in short stay 'step-down' flats in an extra care scheme after leaving hospital.
1 March 2017
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Winter Wellness event 2016 – Staying Well, Warm and Safe
We held this free public event on 19 December 2016, attended by at least 75 people. Around 60 had not attended a Healthwatch Southwark event before and 11 registered as new supporters.
30 December 2016
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Mental Health
Mental health was identified as a priority area for Healthwatch Southwark (HWS) through public and stakeholder consultation.
1 December 2016
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