News and reports

Read or report on the discussions about news ways of working during the Covid-19 pandemic and the positive and negative impact on health inequalities.

In July 2020 we worked with SWL CCG (Wandsworth) to develop an independent survey for care home staff. Read our report about how well staff in care homes felt supported to care for their residents and to look after themselves during the pandemic.

Healthwatch Wandsworth wanted to find out the experiences of people regarding health and social care services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We opened a COVID19 survey in May 2020 based on Healthwatch England’s survey with some minor adjustments.

Intermediate Care services offer short-term care to patients and aims to increase independence & recovery. Wandsworth Council is developing an integrated model of care and wants to understand how these services can be improved for patients.

Each year we set out our priorities, based primarily on what local people have told us is important to them.

Each year we take a look back at our achievements throughout the last twelve months and write about them in our Annual Report.

The first Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly of the year took place at St. Mary’s Church in Tooting and our topic was mental health. Find out more.

We went to speak to people who have short term rehabilitation support from the Wandsworth Maximising Independence team. Read our report about what people told us and what the service have said about it.

We went to speak to people who were discharged from St George's Hospital via their Departure Lounge. Read our report about what people told us and what the hospital will be doing about our recommendations.

Read our report on the discussions about the best way to reach different groups with health inequalities, with public health campaigns.

We went to speak to people who have support from East Wandsworth Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). We've written our report on what people told us, read this report and what the CMHT will be doing differently, based on what people told us.

We talked about Health Inequalities at our event in September 2019. Find out what's happening locally and what people said about efforts to tackle Health Inequalities.