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Have you had a problem getting your flu vaccination?
19/10/2018
Some of you have told us that GP practices and pharmacies are running out of flu vaccinations, particularly for people aged 65+. We have found out...
Working to improve eating disorder services
18/10/2018
Guest blog from Jonathan Wells, Director of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Nationally and locally, mental health has been a key...
Easier access to Musculo-skeletal physiotherapy services
09/10/2018
Anyone aged over 18 years who is registered with a GP in Cambridgeshire or Peterborough can now self-refer for physiotherapy treatment through...
First Steps to Health report published
01/06/2015
Over 1,000 people told us what their First Steps to Health would be, in an innovative survey to find out about local people's attitudes to using primary care services. We wanted to know what you would do about different health problems that you or someone you knew was experiencing. Would you treat...
Lack of choice for local women to book their smear tests
12/03/2015
You told us that sometimes it was difficult to book a smear test at a time and place that worked for you. We know that the take up for smear tests is low amongst women in Cambridgeshire; this was reported in the most recent Annual Public Health Report for Cambridgeshire. NHS Choices says, "If you...
Help Healthwatch make sure patient voices are listened to at Hinchingbrooke
09/02/2015
We need to hear about your care at Hinchingbrooke Hospital Healthwatch Cambridgeshire’s job is to make sure that local people are listened to when important decisions are made about the future of their local care services. We are helping to look at how well care is working at Hinchingbrooke...
Help us check on local Care Homes
23/01/2015
Be our eyes and ears on care in Cambridgeshire. We need your help to find out what life is like in local residential and nursing care homes, so we can develop our new project to "Enter & View" local care homes. As a local Healthwatch we have a statutory “Duty to Enter & View”. This is our...
The future of care at Hinchingbrooke Hospital
09/01/2015
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have placed Hinchingbrooke Hospital into Special Measures today, after an overall rating of Inadequate following their inspection in September 2014. Earlier in the morning Circle, the company who run the hospital, announced they will be withdrawing from their...
Local MP Dr Julian Huppert raises your issues in parliament
11/12/2014
You have told us that children and young people are waiting too long before they get help to manage their mental health. You have also told us your concerns around the quality of some of the support provided to children and young people. We are working with Pinpoint to talk to the people who make...
Local Healthwatch helping residents raise concerns about poor quality care
15/10/2014
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire’s work is included in a major new report from Healthwatch England into people’s experiences of using health & social care complaints systems. Healthwatch England published its report “Suffering in Silence”, into patients' and their families' views and experiences of...
Lead Provider for Older People's Programme announced
01/10/2014
Uniting Care Partnership awarded contract Healthwatch Cambridgeshire congratulates Uniting Care Partnership on being appointed as the “Lead Provider” of Older People's Health and Adult Community Services, by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. Uniting Care Partnership are...
Happy & Healthy Project - engaging children
18/09/2014
This summer, we worked with year five children at Priory Junior School in St. Neots to find out what services in their community keep them happy and healthy. We worked with each class for a day. In the morning, we asked the children to think about what makes them happy and healthy. They talked...
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire launches Using People's Stories Guidance
12/09/2014
We have launched our own good practice guidance to collecting and using people's stories to help improve health and care services. Using people’s stories is integral to all we do as a local Healthwatch; it helps us build an evidence base that we can use to help inform service improvement. We want...
New report wants same access to feedback on Maternity Services for all new parents & parents to be
16/07/2014
Letting mums, dads and parents to be have a say on local maternity services Healthwatch Cambridgeshire has found that local people don’t all have the same chance to feedback on their experience of maternity care, due to inequalities in funding local Maternity Service Liaison Committees (MSLCs). In...
Lifeworks - campaigning to be listened to
09/07/2014
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire are pleased that people who use Lifeworks mental health drop-in centre in Cambridge will be working with the local mental health trust to help design future Personality Disorder Support Services. Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Foundation Trust were going to close...
Local Healthwatch feedback on Proposals to Improve Older People’s Healthcare & Adult Community Services
18/06/2014
Working together for a stronger patient voice. Healthwatch Cambridgeshire is working with other Local Healthwatch to make sure that people’s views are listened to when important decisions are made about the future of Older People’s Healthcare and Adult Community Services. Cambridgeshire &...
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire joins the Older People's Programme Board
26/09/2013
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire are keeping in close contact with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) as they go about buying the health and social care services used by many older and vulnerable people, such as district nursing. Our Chair Ruth Rogers has recently joined...
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire Launch
17/07/2013
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire launched on Wednesday 10th July 2013, when more than 140 people packed into the St Ives Corn Exchange to find out more about us and our plans. This included local people, representatives of voluntary and community groups, private sector and NHS providers as well as the...
