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Between October 2024 and March 2025, Healthwatch Brighton and Hove staff and volunteers attended a range of different public events. We spoke with members of the community to hear their views about health and care services, and to raise awareness of our work.

Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducted visits to the main reception of the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Emergency Department reception of the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital.

This is part of a programme of work looking at patient communication at University Hospital Sussex NHS Trust.

In February 2025, Healthwatch in Sussex sought experiences of accessing Neurodevelopmental Services in the last 12 months.

Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducted a visit to Mill View Hospital which is run by the Sussex Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (SPFT). Four of our trained volunteers conducted these visits.

Our visit to Mill View Hospital was part of PLACE or ‘Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment’. This report provides the volunteer's observations from their visits. PLACE is delivered as a national programme, and all data is collected and formally analysed by NHS Digital. They will publish detailed reports after the programme has ended.