News and reports

We are proud to announce the publishing of our first Annual Report, for 2013 - 14, documenting our achievements throughout our first year.

Healthwatch Newham, alongside the National Kidney Federation (NKF), Age UK London, The Greater London Forum for Older People and London Region National Pensioners Convention, have signed up to the 'Sick of Waiting' campaign.

Our team hosted the user engagement event and marketed it widely in the press and networks. NELPPP approached us in December 2013, for a co-production event on the place of the Pharmacy.

Would you like to learn more about epilepsy? If you have epilepsy or care for someone with epilepsy then why not come to the Epilepsy Society's open day?

The Department of Health allocated public health ring fenced grants to local authorities in England

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Healthwatch Newham is recruiting a new Board member with a background in Finance.

The NHS will be 65 years old on 5th July. In that time, our health system has undergone profound change, with the recent Health and Social Care Act introducing the most wide-ranging reforms since the NHS was founded in 1948.

While rates of tuberculosis have been dropping across much of the world over recent years, in the UK, the disease has actually been on the rise.

Healthwatch England analysis shows around a quarter of the £43.5 million made available by the Department of Health to fund local Healthwatch has failed to materialise in local Healthwatch accounts.

In April 2013, the council will produce its Local Account of adult social care services for 2012 – 13.

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