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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.

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.

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.

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.

Healthwatch undertook a 12-month project looking into people's experiences of rehabilitation, reablement and recovery services. This work included a series of enter and view visits, followed by one to one interviews with patients after discharge.