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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.