1. NHS Long Term Plan launched

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    The 10-year plan includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases, and better access to mental health services for adults and children.

  2. How do you look after yourself in South Glos?

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    As services, such as the NHS, come under increasing pressure, people are being encouraged to take greater responsibility for looking after their own health and wellbeing.

  3. Concord Medical Centre Enter and View 2019

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    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.

  4. Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Annual Report 2018/19

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    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.

  5. World Health Day 2019

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  6. Maternal mental health awareness month 2019

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  7. Make May purple

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  8. Mental health awareness week 2019

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  9. Dying matters awareness week

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  10. Learning disability awareness week

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  11. Dementia action week 2019

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  12. Registering with your GP: understanding your rights

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    People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register.

  13. Your health rights - Easy Read

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    Find out more about your health rights.

  14. Carers Rights Day

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  15. Self care week

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  16. International Volunteer Day

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  17. National Stress Awareness Day

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  18. World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

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  19. World Homelessness Day

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  20. World Suicide Prevention Day

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  21. Men's Health Week

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  22. World Diabetes Day

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  23. Sexual Health Week

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  24. International Day of Older Persons

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  25. Do you need help getting to hospital?

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    Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments.

  26. World Alzheimer’s Day

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  27. Organ donation week

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  28. Baby loss awareness week

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  29. World Mental Health Day

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  30. Ageing Better in South Gloucestershire

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    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.

  31. Yate pop-up shop

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    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.

  32. How people with learning disabilities are helping to improve local services

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    Hivewatch is a partnership between Healthwatch and The Hive, a charity that supports people with learning disabilities. Authorised representatives conduct Enter and View visits in partnership.

  33. New Chair of Healthwatch England

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    Sir Robert Francis QC has been appointed today as the new Chair of Healthwatch England, the independent champion for people who use health and social care.

  34. How do you look after yourself?

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    As of April 2020, and via our advice and information work (Signposting +), we will promote Sirona care & health's new Community Health Services (CHS). Sirona has secured a long-term contract to provide CHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

  35. Healthwatch South Gloucestershire takes local views to Westminster

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    Last week we met MPs in Westminster to discuss YOUR feedback about health and care services in South Gloucestershire.

  36. Engagement Report on the NHS Long Term Plan

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    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.

  37. What you can expect from going to the doctors - Easy Read

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    Find out what you can expect when you visit your doctor.

  38. Digital Inclusion project - help accessing online health services

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    Our team has run a pilot Digital Inclusion project to give people the confidence to go online to access a range of health services.

  39. Healthwatch supports Bristol hospitals' green mission to improve health for patients

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    Bristol's two NHS hospital trusts have declared a ‘climate emergency’ to help tackle the city's poor air quality which they believe is directly leading to ill health in the city.

  40. New contract to run Healthwatch in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire begins

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    A new contract to run three Healthwatch; Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire started on October 1st and our commitment to YOU the patient remains as important as ever.

  41. Enter and View Procedures

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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.

  42. Friends and Family Test

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    The Friends and Family Test (FFT) which helps determine what is good and bad about NHS services is being revamped to help get more comments from the public. Healthwatch supports these changes as user experiences are the only way the NHS can be informed when something is or isn't working.

  43. South West Clinical Senate Citizen's Assembly

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    A Citizens Assembly has been part of the South West Clinical Senate (SWCS) since these Senates were created in 2013. There are 12 Clinical Senates across England.