by Healthwatch Dorset | Oct 28, 2024 | News, Projects
What’s working well and what needs to improve? Survey closes 31 October We want to know how you use your local pharmacy, and whether you have experienced difficulties recently getting the care you need. We will use your feedback to identify common concerns and...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Sep 30, 2024 | News, Projects
Share your feedback by 31 October 2024 As your local health and social care champion, we want to hear about your experience of using local pharmacies to help identify challenges and make recommendations for improvements to local services. We want to know how you use...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Sep 16, 2024 | News
New research by Healthwatch England calls for a more personalised approach to cervical screening to help the NHS meet its ambition to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040. A poll of 2,444 women hesitant about cervical screening has shown that three-quarters, 73%, would...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Sep 11, 2024 | News, Publications
We have published a new report highlighting the significant challenges faced by local people experiencing homelessness or living in vulnerable housing when they need to access health and social care services. In the report, Voiceless, unheard and socially excluded:...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Jul 18, 2024 | News
Evolving Communities has been appointed by Dorset and BCP Councils to continue providing Healthwatch services for local people, following a competitive tender process. Healthwatch Dorset is an independent statutory body with the power to make sure that NHS leaders and...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Jul 10, 2024 | News, Publications
Healthwatch Dorset’s Annual Report 2023-24 highlights how we listened to over 2,000 people last year, supporting them to have their say to improve health and social care and to get information and advice about local services. Here are some of the ways we used your...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Jan 30, 2024 | News
Time to Talk Day (1 February) is the perfect opportunity to start a conversation about mental health. Talking about mental health isn’t always easy, and sometimes it’s hard to say how you really feel. But a conversation has the power to change lives, and...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Nov 27, 2023 | News
Access to care is the main concern people have shared with Healthwatch in the past year. A new report by Healthwatch England looking at health and social care from the patients’ perspective has warned that we risk “a two-tier health and care system”...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Oct 26, 2023 | News, Publications
Our new report Your Mind, Your Say, provides valuable insight from young people to help inform NHS Dorset’s current review of young people’s mental health services. The report builds on our 2020 pre-pandemic research, to assess if previous recommendations for...
by Healthwatch Dorset | Oct 12, 2023 | News, Publications
In our latest report, we explore the challenges faced by patients as they navigate urgent and emergency healthcare services in Dorset, identifying ways to improve people’s understanding and access to these vital services. NHS Dorset asked us to independently evaluate...