New accessibility report unveils crucial findings and recommendations for improved Health and Social Care communication Help & Care’s research arm, Involving People, in collaboration with Healthwatch Hampshire, Healthwatch Isle of Wight, Healthwatch Southampton, and Healthwatch Portsmouth, proudly announces the publishing of our comprehensive report on the Accessible Information Standard (AIS) across Hampshire and the Isle […]
Southampton City Council & Hampshire & Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board have asked Healthwatch Southampton to gather feedback anonymously from Southampton residents regarding several services that are due to be re-commissioned in early 2025. Services that offer Early Help, Intervention and Prevention, such as: Citizens Advice Bureau, So:Linked, Spectrum Independent Living, No Limits, Rose […]
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The next virtual event for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) members focuses on how advanced therapies are transforming how we treat and cure certain diseases. Southampton researchers are at the forefront of progress in areas including cancer, ophthalmology and haemophilia. This event will be an opportunity to hear exciting updates […]
What is the service? A NEW mobile dental service is being launched in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to provide dental care for people experiencing health inequalities.The service is for people at risk of social exclusion and will be delivered by Dentaid The Dental Charity. This is a partnership between the charity and NHS […]
The NHS in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board) are embarking on a transformation of musculoskeletal (MSK) and pain services with the aim of shaping and transforming these services to better meet the needs of the population. It is important that patients are engaged, and feedback sought […]
BBC NEWS article by Anna Lamche See link for full article:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cndd41p5g82o An initiative allowing rapidly deteriorating patients and their families to seek a second opinion will play a role in “changing the culture of the NHS”, Merope Mills has said. Ms Mills began her campaign for “Martha’s rule” after her daughter Martha, 13, died of […]
Looking beyond the NHS Constitution to a meaningful Patient Promise The review of the NHS Constitution is a unique opportunity to transform the Constitution into a meaningful contract between government, services, professionals and the public. We’d like it to become the NHS Patient Promise. Launching the NHS Constitution in 2009, then Health Secretary Alan Johnson claimed the public […]
A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its […]
