We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. We’re here to make sure that those running services, put people at the heart of care.
Our sole purpose is to understand the needs, experiences and concerns of people who use health and social care services and to speak out on their behalf.
We focus on ensuring that people’s worries and concerns about current services are addressed.
We work to get services right for the future.
Local Healthwatch work closely with local authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), patient representative groups, the local voluntary and community sector and health and care service providers to help improve care for everyone.
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Healthwatch Cambridgeshire - local health and care champion for our area - is supporting local NHS and care organisations in a new community listening project. It is recruiting a team of ten Health Champion volunteers across Cambridge, South and East Cambridgeshire to help them improve how well services work for people. Volunteers will get an involvment fee for their time.
Healthwatch has begun its search for a successor to Val Moore – its Chair for the past six years. Val has served two three-year-terms and so she will be stepping down from the post in September.
New plans to "transform" Accident and Emergency departments across England have been published - and people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are invited to have their say.
The way people are discharged from hospital across the region should work better for patients, says a new report from Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, which has just been published.
Pioneering Covid-19 vaccinations are happening in the UK today. And the first Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents will soon be getting their jabs to protect against the virus too.
The Covid shutdown of dental services across our area aggravated existing problems around access to high street NHS dental care.
The health and care struggles of some of the most disadvantaged in our communities during the Covid-19 pandemic are highlighted in a new report from Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch Peterborough.
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