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Between April and June this year, 659 people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough shared their experiences of local health and care services with us. Thank you to everyone who got in touch—your feedback helps us raise concerns, highlight good practice, and push for better care across the system.

Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve heard over the past three months.

Cambridgeshire, Peterborough & Royston’s dedicated mental health and wellbeing support website www.Keep-Your-Head.com has relaunched with a refreshed new look, offering local people quicker, easier access to information on local services and support available to them, or for those they care for. 

Are you struggling to find an NHS dentist? The new dental recovery plan might help you get the dental care you need.

Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough welcomed around 150 people to a Summit on tackling health inequalities on Wednesday 2nd October.

With the spotlight currently on eye care following National Eye Health Week, staff and volunteers at Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough recently conducted a series of Enter & View visits to eye clinics based at local hospitals.

Our September Board meeting will include an update on our activity during the last quarter.

Following a robust procurement process, a new GP service provider, Malling Health, has been secured to deliver primary care services for the patients of East Barnwell Health Centre.

Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have broadly endorsed the findings of Lord Ara Darzi’s review of the NHS, published on 12th September.

Our annual Summit event, being held in Peterborough on Wednesday 2nd October, will place health inequalities under the microscope.

To help shape services to support us all to live longer, happier, and healthier lives, we would like to hear about your experiences of life’s changes. What worked well? What could have helped you cope better?

Project Manager, Karen Igho, reflects on our recent Patient Participation Group (PPG) seminar held on 24th June 2024 at Huntingdon Library.