News and reports

Healthwatch Wandsworth decided to visit Wandsworth prison to find out more about the quality of services, particularly for more disadvantaged groups such as older prisoners or those with mental health problems. Read our report on our findings.

At our events we often hear that communication with healthcare professionals could be better.
In September 2018, local people discussed how professionals could better
listen to our feedback and involve us in decisions.

Talk Wandsworth Wellbeing Team are now offering a series of wellbeing workshops designed to support your specific mental health needs.
The workshops are all free to attend, and will be run regularly throughout the year.

Intermediate Care (IC) is intended to be a range of integrated services that promote faster recovery from illness; prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions and premature admissions to long-term care and support timely discharge from hospital.

Each year we publish an annual report so that you know what your local health and care champion have been doing and what we are planning for the next year. Hear about our fifth year in our annual report.

Many people want to know where to go when they need urgent health advice, treatment and care at any time of the day or night. Find out about how our report highlights some important consideration for people designing the urgent care system.

In May 2018, we held one of our quarterly events which members of the public attended to discuss health inequalities in Wandsworth. Read about what people said in our report.

We wanted to start a conversation about health inequalities in Wandsworth. Find out more about what health inequalities are like in Wandsworth.

Mental health is consistently one of the top issues people tell their local Healthwatch about. Over one million adults in England currently use NHS mental health services, but what should they expect when it comes to the care they receive?

The health and development of children and young people can have far reaching consequences later on, both physically and mentally. Find out about the priorities of local people we spoke to about this issue.

GP appointments in the UK are the shortest in Europe, so we tried to find out how people can maximise the benefit of time spent with their GP. Read more about what local people told us.

Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer but it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early.