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Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June: Healthwatch Dorset celebrates its volunteers
It’s Volunteers' Week 1 - 7 June. Time to celebrate and say thanks for the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering - including those who support the work of local health and care champion, Healthwatch Dorset. Healthwatch Dorset is...
World Digestive Health Day 2021
Obesity: An Ongoing Pandemic May 29 is World Digestive Health Day and the theme for 2021 is ‘Obesity: An ongoing pandemic.’ Resources related to that subject can be found on the World Gastroenterology Organisation website. Here instead, Healthwatch Dorset veteran...
Project seeks the views of children and young people with cancer
Wessex Cancer Alliance, working alongside Wessex Voices and Healthwatch Dorset have launched a new project called 'Our Cancer Our Way'. The aim is to creatively engage with children, teenagers, young people, and their parents and carers, to understand what cancer...
Young Listeners Project Blog
By Liv Francis-Pape, volunteer Young Listener (aged 22 years, support worker) The Young Listener’s Project is an innovative and collaborative way to assess health services, specifically people’s access and experiences. Not only does the project promote a wonderfully...
Dementia Action Week: 17 – 23 May 2021
This blog includes a contribution by Healthwatch Dorset volunteer, Emerald. What is Dementia Action Week? It is a designated week to raise awareness and help improve the lives of people affected by dementia, whether you are the sufferer, partner, child, friend, carer...
Healthwatch Dorset announces new public engagement programme to drive improvements in local health and social care
Healthwatch Dorset has announced the areas of health and social care that it will investigate this year to make sure that local people’s views and experiences are used to drive and support improvements in services. Following analysis of public feedback to find common...
My volunteering diary – by Healthwatch Dorset’s Volunteer officer Holly
Volunteers STILL required for vaccination centres Community Action Network are still looking for volunteers who wish to help with the vaccination programme running throughout Dorset. Volunteering as a marshal can involve a whole host of things! From making...
New Healthwatch Dorset survey asks the public ‘How could Dorset’s COVID-19 vaccination programme be improved?’
Local health and care champion, Healthwatch Dorset, has launched a new public survey asking people to share their views and experiences of the county’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The public feedback campaign, which is welcomed by local NHS providers, will help...
Eating Disorder Awareness Week: 1 – 7 March 2021
Written by Healthwatch Dorset volunteer, Richie, who is currently studying a Masters in Nutrition and Behaviour at Bournemouth University. Eating disorders and the pandemic Whilst it is tricky to separate most things from the effects of the current pandemic, eating...
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