News and reports

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Our team visited this service as part of joint Quality Assurance Visits with Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

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The number of people being cared for in their own homes is increasing but what should you expect from home care services?

Last year 1.1 billion prescription items were dispensed in primary care at a cost of £9.2billion. This cost coupled with finite resources means it is important that the NHS achieves the greatest value from the money that it spends.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking for community leaders to join one of its Advisory Boards on mortality.

We received feedback about the difficulty of accessing NHS appointments and undertook mystery shopping in January and August to investigate this.

A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect.

In June 2017 our team delivered an Enter & View project to review the food and meal time support that was offered to patients at the Newham University Hospital.

Following the lead of Healthwatch England’s national focus on maternity care, we were keen to learn about women’s experiences of maternity services in Newham, therefore we designated maternity services as a priority area for review.

Find out more about the ways we're helping to improve people's experiences of health and social care services in our annual report for 2016-17

Diabetes is one of the UK’s biggest health crises, and it’s on the rise. Some 4.5 million people in the UK are living with diabetes, and 11.9 million in the UK are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.