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Building a Healthier Future: Healthwatch Celebrates Transformative Hospital Developments in Cambridgeshire!
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is excited about the government’s latest announcement on hospital development, which includes significant projects for the region. Hinchingbrooke Hospital and the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital have been…
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Healthwatch volunteers investigate health inequalities across Cambridgeshire in latest report
Research conducted by a group of our Healthwatch volunteers, known as Health Champions, has helped us deliver a report into health inequalities affecting people locally.
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Partnership Boards success over cost-of-living and ability to pay for care
Rising energy and food bills have been the main focus of the cost-of-living crisis. However, people’s ability to pay their assessed contributions to councils towards their care and support costs has also been affected by the current situation.
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Volunteers lead project to help improve A&E care
Healthwatch volunteers investigated the ideas and experiences of people in their local communities as part of a project to help the NHS plan future urgent and emergency care services.
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Insights from our new care home report welcomed
Our new Life in a care home report, published today, has been welcomed by local councils and our local NHS as "important" and providing "valuable insights".
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Support to help people waiting for hospital care
More than eighty-five thousand people are now waiting for hospital care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Although this may be just the tip of the iceberg and some are ‘missing’ from this count as they’ve not come forward for treatment.
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BBC Look East
This week Jess Slater, CEO of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, was interviewed by BBC Look East as part of an on-going focus on the…
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Access in St Neots achieves campaign success
Our Adult Social Care Partnership Boards regularly discuss and raise concerns about places to go to the toilet and access to shops. These two items…
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Scheme launched for buses to become safe spaces for vulnerable women
The Carers Partnership Board has been working with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership to improve…
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Latest reports and publication
Sensory Impairment Partnership Board Minutes April 2025 to March 2026
Minutes from the meetings of the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board April 2025 to March 2026 will be published here once the meetings have taken place.
Forthcoming dates for the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board meetings 2025: 15th May, 21st August, 20th November.
Forthcoming dates for the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board meetings 2025: 15th May, 21st August, 20th November.
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Physical Disability Partnership Board Minutes April 2025 to March 2026
Minutes from the meetings of the Physical Disability Partnership Board April 2025 to March 2026 will be published here once the meetings have taken place.
Forthcoming dates for the Physical Disability Partnership Board meetings 2025: 20th May, 19th August, 18th November.
Forthcoming dates for the Physical Disability Partnership Board meetings 2025: 20th May, 19th August, 18th November.
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