News and reports

Wandsworth Council and Enable Leisure and Sport wanted to update their Active Wandsworth
Strategy, which supports and encourages people to keep physically and mentally healthy through
physical activity.

We covered many things at our Assembly in September including our local health and wellbeing hub resource, making the most of a GP appointment and how St George's Hospital understands patient experience. More information is available in our report.

We spoke to people about managing their eye health. Read our report to hear people's experiences about what it's like to live in London with poor vision.

Members of Healthwatch Wandsworth’s ‘Enter & View’ team made three visits to Champneys Ward and Dialysis service at St George’s Hospital to learn about the renal services that were being provided in February/March 2017.

According to The National Autistic Society around 700,000 people in the UK have an Autistic
Spectrum Condition. Together with their families, this means autism is a part of daily life
for 2.8 million people.

We have been working as your champion for health and care services for four years. Read more about our work over the past year in our annual report.

Members of Healthwatch Wandsworth’s Enter & View (E&V) team visited the Colliers Wood Dialysis Unit provided by Fresenius Medical Care Renal Services Ltd to hear from patients their experience of treatment and care.

Evidence shows that mental health problems are significantly higher within prisons than in the
general population. Read our report on how this problem can be addressed.

We ran a campaign #ItStartsWithYou, highlighting the importance of the feedback that we received from each and every one of you about local health and social care services. As part of the campaign we analysed what people had told us in 2016-7.

At our Assembly in May we covered a variety of mental health topics including local services available. The information presented on the day is available in our report.

In March 2017 we distributed our annual survey to our members, local residents and organisations, to find out how they view Healthwatch and our role.

Healthwatch Wandsworth visited Laurel Ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, a mental health ward for men. We talked to staff, patients and patient’s relatives and our report is based on what people told us and what we saw during our visit.