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There's still time to get your flu jab from your local GP or from pharmacies across the city. -
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As Winter approaches there are a number of things you can do to keep you and your loved ones well this winter. -
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Coronavirus Update -
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Student Volunteering Week runs from the 10-16 February 2020. The aim of the week is to celebrate student volunteers, and further promote volunteering opportunities in the local community. -
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Warmdene Couty Oak Medical Centre Update -
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Now more than ever, looking after our own mental health, and loved ones, friends, neighbours and employees is so important. The theme of Mental Health Awareness Week this year is Kindness. -
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New organ opt out system in England starts on 20 May 2020 -
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Today we publish a review of all GP practices and surgeries in the City. -
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Coronavirus briefing
This information has been produced by Brighton and Hove City Council to reduce scam and fraudulent activity -
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How to request help online if you need it -
Press release: Covid-19 - Healthwatch publishes essential updates on health and social care services
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Covid-19: Healthwatch publishes essential updates on health and social care services -
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We have produced a Frequently Asked Questions document which we hope will answer some of your questions about Covid-19 such as symptoms, treatment, self-isolating and links to additional guidance. -
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We have published essential updates on local health and social care services in Brighton and Hove. -
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Coronavirus (Covid-19): Information and advice on how to stay physically active indoors and how to look after your mental health -
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Volunteering to collect a prescription for a friend, family member or neighbour -
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This guide produced by Healthwatch Brighton and Hove provides some information about seeing a GP at this current time. -
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This Healthwatch guide provides information about seeing a dentist and explains your rights -
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Resources for patients, their family and friends who are affected by cancer. -
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David Liley CEO of Healthwatch, made a video update in which he describes the role Healthwatch has played during the current coronavirus crisis. Watch it now. -
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We are pleased to present information on maternity and pregnancy from Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group and Brighton and Hove Maternity Voices Partnership -
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Cancer services in Sussex during COVID-19 and what this means for you - a free webinar.
Thursday 11th June 2020 @ 5pm (1 hour) -
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Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the contribution people make across the UK through volunteering. -
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COVID-19 – helping informal carers understand what to expect if someone they are looking after needs to go into hospital or a home -
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Since the pandemic there have been many concerns around getting cancer treatment and support. Healthwatch Sussex heard from cancer experts about their latest advice. Read more to find out what they said. -
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From 15 June 2020, it is the law that you must wear a face covering when travelling in England on a:
bus or coach,
rain or tram,
ferry or hovercraft or other vessel,
aircraft
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Cancer patients and their families had the opportunity to talk to experts about what to expect from cancer services during the pandemic. -
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We have been working in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Sussex Health and Care Partnership. Learn more in the article below. -
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Healthwatch bulletin on Health and Social Care & COVID-19
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We are pleased to publish a new report which provides information on the projects we are undertaking at present, and those we hope to deliver over the next year and beyond. We will review these and provide further updates as these become available. -
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The COVID health crisis is understandably drawing public scrutiny and press attention. Local services and providers are facing unprecedented challenges and are adapting quickly to emerging issues. -
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Our core work is to gather patient opinion on health and social care services from across the community. The Equality Impact Assessment presents the degree to which the reports we publish reached out to the ‘protected characteristics groups’. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove conducts an annual survey of stakeholders in order to understand their awareness of Healthwatch and assess their views on our activities over the previous year. -
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This performance report describes the role Healthwatch Brighton and Hove played in supporting patients and local health and social care services during the COVID-19 crisis. We have focused in this report on our activity from early January to April -
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Over the summer of 2019, Healthwatch Brighton & Hove conducted research to gain a better insight into information that is available to people who are looking to make a complaint, raise a concern or provide feedback about health & social care services -
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Healthwatch in Sussex - a collaboration between local Healthwatch from Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, and West Sussex - arranged for cancer patients and their families to have their questions answered by three cancer experts. -
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Healthwatch Brighton and Hove worked alongside Young Healthwatch to gather the views and opinions of BAME young people, aged 17-25 and living in Brighton and Hove around local sexual health services and STIs. -
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Working closely with the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and local NHS Trust, we launched an outpatients’ booking survey in January 2020. -
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Our Annual Report for the period to March 2020, highlighting the work and achievements over the past year, which includes the impact Coronavirus and COVID-19 has had on our organisation. -
Environmental Audits of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust: April 2019 to March 2020
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Since December 2016, we have worked in partnership with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust to conduct monthly visits across the estate. -
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"I have been involved in a variety of research projects, but the one I get a real kick out of are the hospital visits. This gives me a great sense of achievement, as a volunteer." -
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Welcome to our second report which examines the outcomes from the annual Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment programme (PLACE).
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Since the coronavirus was recognised as a global pandemic, and particularly since lockdown was announced in England on 23 March, we have been presented with an ever-increasing amount of data describing the impacts of the virus (COVID-19). -
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This performance report describes Healthwatch Brighton and Hove activities from May to June 2020. -
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Today we announce the publication of our review of all GP practices and surgeries across the City. -
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"The project brings me into contact with a wide range of people who depend on their carers to bring support and stability to their lives. I enjoy this engagement with the community and it helps me to better appreciate the scale of the problem."
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"While retired I really wanted a volunteer role that would allow enable me to use my knowledge and experiences, but also act on behalf of patients." -
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"Since joining, I have had the privilege of meeting a wide range of people who rely on social care. Meeting people in their own homes has blown away any preconceptions and given me a whole new perspective of 'old' and 'vulnerable'." -
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We recently received the following from Healthwatch England. If you know anyone who might be interested please do let us know, we are happy to put people in touch with Healthwatch England. There would be no commitment or obligation