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You could be eligible for help with the cost of NHS prescriptions, NHS dental treatment, eyecare, travel to receive NHS treatment and NHS wigs and fabric supports.

Millions of patients can now track their prescriptions thanks to the rollout of a new feature in the NHS App helping to reduce unnecessary calls and visits to pharmacies.

How the lack of NHS dental care impacts on confidence, nutrition and mental health.

Local residents spoke to us about their experiences of end-of-life care. We also heard from families and carers.

Are you satisfied with your GP practice? If your GP is in South Gloucestershire, we'd like to hear from you. What's working well? Could anything be improved?

Have you given birth Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire within the last 3 years? Or did you give birth elsewhere and receive infant feeding support here? If so, the local NHS is asking for your ideas about infant feeding support.

Do you care for someone who has a neurodegenerative disorder (e.g. Parkinson’s or dementia)? Do you experience loneliness? We’d like your help to develop and test ideas for new technology to support people who feel lonely.

Have you been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disorder (e.g. Parkinson’s or dementia)? Do you experience loneliness? We’d like your help to develop and test ideas for new technology to support people who feel lonely.

Our Local Advisory Group includes Healthwatch volunteers and a range of individuals and organisations that have an interest in helping shape and get the best from health and social care services.

Complete this short survey to share your views about public involvement in work carried out by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW).

We'd like to hear about your experiences of palliative and end-of-life care. This includes people who’ve experienced this within the last two years in their family, as carers of family members or friends, or those currently experiencing end-of-life care.

This Code of Conduct sets out the expectations Healthwatch South Gloucestershire has of all those who work or carry out activities for it, in a voluntary or paid capacity, including trustees, employees, students and volunteers.