Healthwatch Southampton have released a statement from our Chairperson Harry Dymond that outlines feedback on Southern Health’s Quality Account 2016/17. This statement can be read in full by clicking here
Healthwatch Southampton has released it’s AGM Report, Feedback & Q&A that serves as an overview of the 2017 Healthwatch Southampton AGM. This includes answers to all the questions posed during the meeting that we were unable to publish until after the general election (due to purdah). These questions were posed to a wide variety of organisations including […]
Healthwatch Southampton is committed to championing the public’s voice and ensuring services are listening to responding to local patients’ needs and ideas for improvement. As part of this work we held a series of engagement events at Ladies Walk & Midanbury Surgeries, surveying a total of 50 patients during 3 engagement events throughout February – […]
Through our work we realised there were discrepancies’ in how PPG groups were operated. Some primary care service providers were running regular PPG meetings, others had yearly online forums or surveys and some service providers had no form of PPG at all. Healthwatch Southampton believes it may be beneficial to the residents of Southampton to […]
During a number of Healthwatch outreach sessions in 2015, individuals and groups raised with us the issue of not being able to register at GP practices due to not having the required photo ID and/or proof of address. As this was a national issue, we took the matter to NHS England and other organisations including […]
The University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS FT) established a group to advise on improving the patient experience of patients with sensory disability; i.e. Visual and Hearing disabilities. This was part of a programme of work to ensure that UHS FT were compliant with the Accessible Information Standard introduced by NHS England which aims to […]
On Friday 10th February 2017, the Healthwatch Southampton Community Development Worker (Sam Goold) attended City College Southampton’s LGBT and Sexual Health Awareness Event at the The Hub. As part of that event, he conducted a survey, asking 24 students between the ages of 16-19 to self-access their level of education of sexual health, who they’d […]
In 2016, Healthwatch Southampton launched its ‘One Change’ campaign. We wanted to know from you: ‘One change that would improve my health.’ Rob Kurn, Healthwatch Southampton Manager, said: “By launching this campaign, Healthwatch Southampton wants to discover what changes are at the front of people’s minds when it comes to improving their health. We would […]
