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Our Annual Report 2022-23 highlights the work of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough during the last twelve months and the vital role you play in helping us make an impact.
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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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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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Tell NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough how you want to access healthcare online
NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough want to better support local people by giving you greater digital or online access to healthcare information,…
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Latest reports and publication
Enter and View report - Eye Clinics - supplementary report
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have published a report into the services provided at eye clinics based at local hospitals. This report is supplementary to the first visit in September 2024.
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Our Tackling Health Inequalities Together report reflects Summit focus
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have published a new report on tackling health inequalities which contains the findings of our recent Summit event. In attendance were members of the public with lived experience of health inequalities, healthcare professionals and policymakers.
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