care at home survey
Read how people who need care at home were affected by pandemic
Lu, who suffers from chronic condition fibromyalgia, tells us how her family were her lifeline when she suffered a distressing fall and how she struggled to get help for severe shoulder pain.
21 July 2020
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First Do No Harm
First Do No Harm is a report published last week of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review. Read more to learn more about the report, why it was commissioned and its findings.
21 July 2020
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EV Elgar House
Latest Enter and View Elgar House
Read our review on Elgar House, Southmead Hospital, where we observed the facilities and spoke to patients on the ward. We found delays in sorting patients' care at home leading to prolonged stays.
17 July 2020
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Our round up of how we've worked for you this year
Read all about how we expanded our geographical area, our staff team and developed new work areas to ensure we continue to make an impact on health and social care services near you.
8 July 2020
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Our complaints policy
Here is our full outline of how to make a complaint about Healthwatch South Gloucestershire if you feel we haven't got everything quite right!
22 October 2019
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Information and Education
Enter and View Procedures
The Government allows authorised Healthwatch South Glos representatives to enter premises that service providers own or manage to observe the nature and quality of those services.
5 October 2019
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Engagement Report on the NHS Long Term Plan
The NHS has produced a Long Term Plan, setting out all the things it wants health services to do better for people across the country. For these plans to work, the NHS needs to shape local plans based on local needs.
1 August 2019
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Healthwatch SG Pop Up Shop 2019
Yate pop-up shop
In June 2019 we held a pop-up shop in Yate Shopping Centre, in partnership with Sirona, to speak to residents about their local health and social care services - this report captures what we heard.
20 June 2019
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Ageing Better in South Gloucestershire
Healthwatch South Gloucestershire carried out a project in 2019 to engage with older people to understand their experiences of ageing and keeping themselves healthy and well.
1 June 2019
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Nurse and patient
Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Annual Report 2018/19
Access and view our comprehensive Annual Report for 2018-19. Our report gives an overview of our activities for the year which has included work with The Hive looking at service experiences for people with learning disabilities and the South Gloucestershire patient discharge programme.
1 April 2019
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Concord Medical Centre Enter and View 2019
Healthwatch South Gloucestershire and Hivewatch volunteers undertook the Enter and View visit during March 2019. The purpose of the visit was to understand the experience that a patient with a learning disability would have when visiting Concord.
14 March 2019
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Urgent and emergency care
Southmead Hospital Emergency Department Enter and View 2018
Hivewatch undertook the Enter and View visit to Southmead Emergency Department on 11 October 2018 with the aim of assessing the ED experience for people with learning difficulties. The findings of the visit can be found in this report.
11 October 2018
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