News and reports

Healthwatch England have announced a dental crisis as a result of local Healthwatch, including Brighton and Hove, sharing concerns from local people trying to access dental services during the pandemic.

These are the board papers for the Board of Directors meeting held on 8th February 2021. The meeting was held online using Zoom.

This week we have provided three bulletins:
1. An update on the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
2. A guide for carers, and the vaccination programme.
3. Our regular bulletin on health, social care and COVID

In 2020, we undertook 106 phone interviews to explore people's opinions of accessing health and social care services during the pandemic. In December 2020 we interviewed some of these people - Hear what they had to say about remote appointments.

This reports looks at the different definitions of digital exclusion, why people are digitally excluded, why is it important, and its extent nationally and locally. It also looks at local efforts to increase digital inclusion.

Welcome to our Healthwatch bulletin, providing you with updates on Health, Social Care, and COVID-19

Resources for patients, their family and friends who are affected by cancer.

This month is a Cervical Cancer campaign raising awareness about the importance of early detection of Cervical cancer and encouraging women to have a test.

Welcome to our Healthwatch bulletin, providing you with updates on Health, Social Care, and COVID-19

Welcome to our Healthwatch bulletin, providing you with updates on Health, Social Care, and COVID-19

This guide produced by Healthwatch Brighton and Hove provides some information about seeing a GP at this current time.

We asked people if they had used or tried to use a dental service after 25th March 2020 and what their experience had been like. Also what suggestions they had for how dental practices could operate in the future.