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Working for better mental health services
10/08/2018
G uest blog from Jonathan Wells, Director of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Jonathan is a mental health professional of 34 years’...
New way of working for local health commissioners
26/07/2018
Jan Thomas, the new Accountable Officer for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), came to our AGM last week to tell us...
Will's story
25/07/2018
South Cambridgeshire resident Will lost too much weight and became unwell with untreated Crohn’s disease after struggling to communicate with health...
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...
