Social Care in Action has launched a new service to support people to attend their COVID vaccinations and to appointments at local GP surgeries in Southampton. The service, commissioned by NHS Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group and Southampton City Council, provides transport to adults who do not have a safe, independent means of travelling to important […]
Healthwatch Hampshire is running a health priorities survey to find out what matters to the people of Hampshire when it comes to health and social care services for this year. Now that there is a road map out of the pandemic, and the vaccine roll-out is well under way, they want to know what […]
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Southampton Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), which offers an alternative to A&E for non-life threatening conditions, is welcoming people with minor illnesses, and not COVID-19, back to the centre for treatment. It comes after the centre, based in Royal South Hants Hospital, closed during the second national lockdown. During the early stages of the pandemic, the […]
There has been lots of national and local media coverage about the troubles of NHS Track and Trace. People have reported difficulties booking a test and experienced other frustrations with the system. We would love to hear your experiences as we are collating community perspectives: Is the NHS Test and Trace system working for you? […]
Making sure that the public and communities can have their say about health services and are able to influence service improvement is an important part of the NHS. Over the next few months, we will be telling you about some examples of positive engagement activity in Southampton. This month, we are reporting on the work […]
Solent NHS Trust provides health services across Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of Hampshire and Isle of Wight. In Southampton, this includes health services for children and families, adult rehabilitation wards and community services, dementia services, diabetes nursing as well as emergency department support for adults over 65 being discharged from hospital. In their ambition for […]
The Doctor Will Zoom You Now: getting the most out of the virtual health and care experience, is a free webinar on on Friday 24 July 2020. National Voices with Traverse, Healthwatch England and PPL would like to invite you to join them at this event to discuss findings and insight from recent research […]
Kelly Smith was diagnosed with bowel cancer more than three years ago. Thousands of cancer patients had their treatment halted or delayed as coronavirus spread in the UK, and she was one of them. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-53310007/they-paused-my-chemo-because-of-covid
Here at Healthwatch Southampton, we have been asking local NHS trusts to tell us a bit more about how they have been collecting people’s health and care experiences over the last few months. University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust has shared this message, from Ellis Banfield, Head of Experience & Involvement: We continue to prioritise patient […]
