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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
Report
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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
Report
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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
Report
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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
Report
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Young Voices on Mental Health
Over the summer of 2016, we engaged with 114 young people aged 12-23, via workshops and surveys, to find out about their experiences of mental health education and information, access to services, and where they prefer to go for support.
25 November 2016
Report
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Bengali Focus Group with Macmillan Cancer Support
We were commissioned by Macmillan Cancer Support, to run a focus group exploring the different ways the Bengali community access information – where they get it from and in what format and language.
15 October 2016
Report
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Findings from our Trans Survey
Healthwatch Southwark wanted to understand the experience of local people in the context of the national experience of Trans patients and so started a series of engagement activities.
15 September 2016
Report
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Burgess Park Care Home
In 2016, one of our priority areas was social care. A focus of this has been to look at the quality of nursing care provision, especially after the closure of one of the three Southwark nursing homes in October 2015 (Camberwell Green).
1 August 2016
Report
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Gypsy and Traveller Community Focus Group
Healthwatch Southwark spoke with Traveller women who reside in Traveller sites in Southwark, of which there are four: Springtide (Peckham), Brideale (Peckham), Ilderton (Bermondsey) and Burnhill (Peckham).
31 July 2016
Report
Young voices on sexual health
Over the summer of 2016, we engaged with 105 young people aged 13-25, via workshops and surveys, to find out about their experiences of sexual health education and information, access to services, and where they prefer to go for support.
2 May 2016
Report
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Do Southwark GPs offer interpreting services?
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.
30 March 2016
Report
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Access and Experience of GP Services
In December 2015, we published a report based on what 79 Southwark residents told us about GP access and experience.
30 December 2015
Report