Healthwatch is an independent organisation in the United Kingdom that gathers and represents the views and experiences of patients, service users, and the public on health and social care services.
Together we’re making health and social care better
Annual Report 22/23 find out what we got up to in 2022-23 and read about our plans for the future. As always we’ve done our best this year to put your voices at the heart of health and social care
Every Spring we decide which areas we should focus our work on over the coming year. We base this on feedback we’ve had from local people and on the priorities of local health and care services.
Residents of Maidenhead, that are registered with a Maidenhead GP practice, requiring same day urgent care for both minor illness and minor injuries can be seen locally in Maidenhead at St Mark’s Hospital.
The continuing cost of living crisis is adversely affecting people's physical and mental wellbeing, with vulnerable people and those on lower incomes hit the hardest.
Many women and girls will encounter some sort of domestic abuse in their lifetime, it has a rippling effect and can have devastating consequences for those caught in that cycle of abuse.
Healthwatch RBWM Officer Steve Sansom was delighted to be part of trio that travelled to the prestigious (PENNA)award which is the Patient Engagement Network National Awards at the University of Birmingham on the 27th of September 2022.