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The Voluntary Sector Forum helps to connect local people, voluntary sector organisations and community services in such a way that all benefit from the services Wandsworth has to offer. -
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Each year we take a retrospective look back at our achievements throughout the last twelve months and try and pull them all together in our Annual Report.
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Matt Hancock, the Minister for Health and Social Care, has announced the government's plans to address the nation's health concerns. -
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Your health and adult social care information is important to the NHS as it helps them research, plan and improve health and care services in England. -
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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. -
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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. -
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In our third year as your consumer champion for health and social care we have been very busy. Read our annual report on how we have tried to represent the views of the Wandsworth community to improve health and social care. -
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Healthwatch Wandsworth has finished it's first year as the consumer champion for health and social care. Read about what we have done in our first year in our first annual report. -
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LGBT+ people are more likely to experience mental ill health than the wider population. -
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More than 6,500 cases of TB were reported across England in 2014, and of these over 2,500 occurred in London. Read about new guidelines to help tackle the problem. -
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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. -
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At the start of 2016, Healthwatch Wandsworth was looking at ways in which young people would engage in online discussions about health and social care. Find out about a campaign the young people created and the responses they got from local people. -
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We caught up with the Head of Offender Healthcare to hear about what has changed since we visited. Find out more about how things have changed or improved. -
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Read more about a new and exciting opportunity for local people who have experience of using cancer services and have accessed psychological support during or after treatment. -
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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. -
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The Wandsworth Health and Care Plan was launched on 7th October as a collaborative plan to tackle key health issues in the borough. Read more about the plans. -
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A visit to Crocus Ward, Springfield Hospital, was organised by a team of five authorised volunteers from Healthwatch Wandsworth on October 26th 2016. -
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Our local Healthwatch undertakes 'Enter and View' visits to health and social care services to make recommendations where there are areas for improvement. Read our review of the future direction of the Enter and View programme in Wandsworth.
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Here's what people have already told us about their experiences of hospital care, mental health support and social care. Speak up now to inform our priorities for the coming year. -
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We are very pleased to welcome Stephen Hickey as the new chair to our HW Committee starting in April. Stephen’s skills and experience will be an asset to Healthwatch Wandsworth’s committee, and we are very much looking forward to working with him. -
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The Healthwatch Wandsworth committee member election has now closed. We have three nominations and on March 5th you can vote and choose your new committee members. -
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Volunteers play an important role at Healthwatch Wandsworth. We always need local people to help us improve local health and care services for the residents of Wandsworth. -
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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.
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Healthwatch Wandsworth is proud to welcome the three new committee members that were elected at the Healthwatch Assembly on Thursday 5 March. -
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Each year we take a look back at our achievements throughout the last twelve months and write about them in our Annual Report. -
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Each year we set out our priorities, based primarily on what local people have told us is important to them. -
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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. -
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At the Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly this year, we talked about Health Inequalities in Wandsworth. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown has had an inevitable impact on health and care services. -
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New appeal from Healthwatch Wandsworth for people in Wandsworth to share their experiences of accessing health and care since Covid19. -
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At the Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly we talked about what our focus on health and social care should be in 2021. Attendees helped us set our priorities for public and patient participation and involvement this year. -
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We discussed priorities for patient and public involvement in the coming year at our Assembly in March 2021. We discussed this in groups and also focused on hospital discharge. Read our report for the key highlights about what people told us. -
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Read about our focus as your champion for health and care services in 2021-2 in our Business Plan. -
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Read our annual round-up of what we've been working on and how people in Wandsworth have helped us shape our local health and social care services. -
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Make a difference to health and social care services in Wandsworth.
Get involved with Healthwatch Wandsworth.
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Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic people continue to face discrimination and inequality in this country in the field of mental health. Read more about a new project to try and tackle these issues. -
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Healthwatch Wandsworth is guided by our Healthwatch Committee. At our event on 29th September our Healthwatch Wandsworth members will be electing new members to our committee. -
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Read more about our event looking at supporting mental health and wellbeing in our community. -
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Read about where we will focus our work in 2022-3. -
We have published our annual report about how local people's views shaped health and care in 2021-22
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Read more in our annual report that showcases our work with local people to shape our local health and social care services. -
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This discussion document sets out the proposed priorities for the South West London Integrated Care System. -
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Local health and care champion, Healthwatch Wandsworth, marks the difference the public have made to improve NHS and social care services -
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This week is Volunteers Week and we wanted to look at volunteering as a way to connect to others in the community. -
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Read what people told us are the most important health and social care topics to focus on in Wandsworth -
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Read on to find out about what our collaborations with the community have achieved over the past year. -
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Do you want to make a difference to health and social services in Wandsworth? We're recruiting a volunteer Representative who can voice community concerns to local decision makers. Attend meetings, committees, and speak up for change. -
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Join us on 26th September, 4-6pm for a free celebration AGM event with great food, inspiring stories, and networking opportunities. -
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Healthwatch Wandsworth have a survey live now to find out what the most important health and social care issues are to focus on for Wandsworth.