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Worcestershire County Council's response to Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter re Care Home and Domiciliary Care

Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter to Director of Public Health re PHE Review Covid-19

Healthwatch Worcestershire's response to Worcestershire County Council's Care Home Support Plan

The Covid-19 Survey was aimed at the general public was developed, in collaboration with the NHS and Worcestershire County Council (WCC), based on Healthwatch England’s template to find out people’s experiences of health and care service during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Healthwatch Worcestershire's Letter to Worcestershire County Council re Care and Nursing Home and Domiciliary Care Sector in Worcestershire during Covid-19

The Stonewall report LGBT in Britain - Health Report (2018) and the House of Commons Women and Equality Committee report (2019) identified that in spite of the strides made towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality in recent years, many LGBT+ people face significant barriers to leading healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.

In the NHS Long Term Plan there is a commitment to improving people’s health through prevention and
encouraging people to live healthy lives. It stresses the importance of giving everyone a healthy start in life.

Healthwatch Worcestershire decided to speak with patients being looked after in corridor areas about their experience and what might be done to improve it. The purpose of these visits was to follow up on the implementation of our recommendations as set out in the WAHT Action Plan produced in 2017.

Healthwatch Worcestershire's request for information from Worcester City Council re death of a rough sleeper

Healthwatch Worcestershire's letter ref: Terms of Reference for the Thematic Review of Rough Sleeper Deaths

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (WAHT) invited Healthwatch Worcestershire (HWW) to assist them to understand patient experience at the Fracture Clinics so that this could also inform their Action Plan.

This work has been carried out to gather feedback from young people, parents and carers about their experiences of accessing mental health support and the progress made by Worcestershire’s Transformation Plan. In addition to gather feedback about access to CAMHS and the quality of the CAMHS service, we aimed to find out what other support young people and parents were aware of and had received.