Mayor of Newham
Healthwatch Newham open meeting - Thursday 20th September 2018
Over 50 people attended Healthwatch Newham’s event on Thursday 20 September, to hear the new Mayor talk about her vision.
24 September 2018
News
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Public event September 2018
Over 60 people attended our event on 20 September 2018 at Stratford Library, to hear the new Mayor talk about her vision.
21 September 2018
Report
Skeletal foot
Quality assurance visit: foot health clinic
Our team visited the foot health clinic at University of East London, Clinical Education Building, 1 Ferns Road to find out about patients’ referral pathway experiences as part of our joint Quality Assurance Project with NCCG.
5 September 2018
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Compliments, feedback and complaints about adult social care
As part of the Quality Matters initiative, Healthwatch England recently developed a toolkit for care services and councils to work with local Healthwatch to improve the way complaints are handled at a local level.
21 August 2018
News
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Quality assurance visit: continence care
Our team visited the Continence Care Service in Romford Road with the purpose of finding out about patients referral pathway experiences as part of our joint Quality Assurance project with Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
8 August 2018
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Obstacles to older people's access to GP services
This research project, carried out by Newham Older People’s Reference Group (OPRG), aimed to gather feedback from older people living Newham about their experiences of accessing GP services and what the obstacles they face in Newham.
23 July 2018
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Rainbow home care
Our team visited the Rainbow Homecare coffee morning on 14 July 2018 to engage with service users to gain feedback on their home care experiences.
14 July 2018
Report
NHS seventy
NHS at 70!
The National Health Service is turning 70 on 5 July 2018.
4 July 2018
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June 2018 newsletter
Our newsletter is available to download now. Full of news and views about health and social care in Newham and beyond.
30 June 2018
News
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Quality assurance visit: tissue viability service
Our team visited this service as part of joint Quality Assurance Visits with Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
6 June 2018
Report
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Health services for women with learning disabilities
The project was carried out with the support of our Community Grants Programme.
2 April 2018
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NHS 111
When should you call NHS 111?
NHS 111 is much more than a helpline – if you're worried about an urgent medical concern, you can call 111 to speak to a fully trained adviser.
6 March 2018
Advice and Information