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Making mental health support better for young people more at risk of mental illness
28/09/2017
Young people need more flexible, creative solutions to give them the information and support they need to stay mentally well. Our new report, ‘...
Healthwatch challenges local health commissioner’s decision to suspend fertility services
20/09/2017
The decision to suspend fertility services in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is against national guidance and will have a huge impact on those...
Changes made in Addenbrooke's Emergency Department following Healthwatch visit
14/09/2017
Patient voices help improve care in Addenbrooke’s Emergency Department after the hospital makes a number of changes following a visit from...
"Speedback" events - have your say on local mental health services
22/10/2014
Speedback is like "Speed Dating" with a difference. You can talk to the people who make decisions about local mental health services; tell them what would make local mental health services better. This event is being organised by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. There...
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...
How should serious complaints against doctors be dealt with?
29/09/2014
The General Medical Council (GMC) is consulting on how doctors should be dealt with when serious complaints about them are upheld. The GMC provides guidelines, known as Indicative Sanctions Guidance , to the impartial panels who decide the outcome of cases at the end of a fitness to practise panel...
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...
Adult & Older People's Mental Health Social Care Strategy
11/09/2014
Cambridgeshire County Council Mental Health Strategy update September 2014. Cambridgeshire County Council are looking at how they can provide better support to adults and older people who use mental health social care services. They want to provide support that is more personalised to individuals;...
Help the Council make its tough budget choices
27/08/2014
Cambridgeshire County Council needs you to help them make some hard decisions about their annual business plan and budget for 2015/2016. Next year the Council will have 7.1% less money to spend on local services from the Government; the local population is increasing and the price of daily living...
Urgent Care Services
19/08/2014
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) want to know about your experiences of Urgent Care Services in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Urgent care is sometimes referred to as unplanned care (as opposed to a planned operation or appointment). Urgent care services are...
The Inspectors are coming to Hinchingbrooke Hospital
30/07/2014
In September the Care Quality Commission (the CQC) will be inspecting Hinchingbrooke Hospital. To help them get the most from their visit they want to know what it is like for local people using the hospital. We are holding a public meeting at 6.30pm on Thursday 4 th September at The Maple Centre,...
Have your say on a new healthy lifestyle service in Cambridgeshire
25/07/2014
Cambridgeshire County Council are developing new healthy lifestyle and weight management services. They want to make these services available in more areas and attract more people to use them. They need your help to understand what kind of services local people want. It doesn’t matter if you have...
Time Credits help build health & wellbeing in local communities
17/07/2014
At Healthwatch Cambridgeshire we are interested in the new Time Credit scheme in Wisbech, as a way of getting people involved in their local community and improving their health & wellbeing. Local people can become Time Credit members and earn one Time Credit for every hour of volunteering they...
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...
Our First Year
30/06/2014
Welcome to our first Annual Report It has been a busy year for us! In our Annual Report we show you how we have approached our task of gathering people’s experiences of health and care services. We show you how we have fed your views back to the people who provide, buy and regulate these services...
Have your say on the DRAFT Suicide Prevention Strategy
19/06/2014
Suicide is a major public health issue which has a big impact on everyone. Suicide is not inevitable and many deaths can be prevented if local organisations work together. A joint suicide prevention strategy is being developed by Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council and...
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 &...
Adult Support Drop-in Events
10/06/2014
Cambridgeshire County Council are continuing to provide a series of drop-in events for anyone who is: living with a long-term illness or disability providing unpaid support to adult family members or friends who could not manage without this help struggling with an age-related condition Each drop-...
Have your say on proposed changes to local Personality Disorder Services
06/06/2014
Our local mental health Trust, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), want to redesign how Personality Disorder Services are provided across the county. These changes mean that in some areas there will be new services and in others areas there will be less or different...
Then What? Healthwatch England Special Inquiry
13/05/2014
Healthwatch England has launched a special inquiry into what happens to people when they are discharged from health and social care settings. They have heard that things often go wrong when people are discharged from health and social care institutions. Healthwatch England believe that tens of...
We are helping the CQC gather your views on Community Health Services
28/04/2014
Tell us about your experience of using local community health care The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will be inspecting Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust's (CCS NHST) local services from 27th May, to check on the quality of the care they are providing. This is part of a national programme...
Alternative guide to emergency & urgent care
08/04/2014
We love this new animation from the King's Fund which busts some myths about A&E services in crisis. If you would like to view the animation with closed captions, you can do so on the King's Fund Youtube channel . You can also download the Alternative guide to the urgent and emergency care...
Free and confidential advice about support for adults with long-term needs and carers
02/04/2014
Cambridgeshire County Council have arranged a series of drop-in events to provide free and confidential information and advice to adults living with a long-term illness or disability, older people struggling with an age-related condition, and anyone providing unpaid support to adult family members...
Have your say on plans for older people's health care and adult community services
12/03/2014
Thirteen week consultation launched on 17th March, with events all around the county. The Cambridgeshire & Peterbrough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants to improve older people’s healthcare and adult community services. To do this they have been going through a process called the...
Better Care Fund
06/03/2014
Have your say how local money is being spent to provide joined up health & social care. The “Better Care Fund” is money to make health & social care services provide joined up care and help people stay out of hospital when they don’t need to be there. The government has asked local health...
