1. Report -

    Hivewatch Enter and View Report 07/02/2018. Healthwatch and The Hive were funded to undertake visits to health and care services to observe and report on the services from the perspective of a person with a learning disability.
  2. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire undertook an enter and view revisit to Gracefields Care Home in March 2017.
  3. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire undertook a 2 hour morning enter and view visit to Fairview Court with the purpose of finding out about residents’ lived experience of care.
  4. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire undertook one enter and view evaluation revisit
    to Willow Cottage Care Home in January 2017.
  5. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire undertook an Enter and View revisit to Little Croft Care Home in January 2017.
  6. Report -

    Revisit Enter and View report
    Edgemont View Nursing Home
  7. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Wickwar Care Home in March and April 2016
  8. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Woodlands Manor Care Home in January and March 2016.
  9. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire authorised Enter and View volunteers undertook two follow-up enter and view visits to Stanshawes Care Home on 14 October 2015 and 13 January 2016.
  10. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two enter and view visits on Wednesday 11 November and Tuesday 24 November 2015
  11. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook one two hour morning Enter and View visit on Thursday 10 November 2015 to Gwendoline House Care Home
  12. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook an Enter and View visit to Blossom Fields Nursing Home in Sept 2015
  13. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook an Enter and View visit to Kenver House in Sept 2015
  14. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook an Enter and View visit to Oaktree Care Home in July 2015
  15. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Willow Cottage Nursing Home during May 2015
  16. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Deerhurst Nursing Home during April 2015
  17. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Beaufort House Care Home during March and April 2015.
  18. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two announced Enter and View visits to Little Croft Care Home in February 2015.
  19. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook one Unannounced Enter and View visit to Kingswood Court Care Home on 12th November 2014
  20. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Stanshawes Care Home during November 2014
  21. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook one announced Enter and View visit to Gracefields Nursing Home in January 2015
  22. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Beaufort Grange Care Home on different days of the week, and at different times of the day, during September and October 2014.
  23. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook two Enter and View visits to Beech House Care Home on different days of the week, and at different times of the day, during September 2014.
  24. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View authorised representatives undertook a series of three Enter and View visits to Stanshawes Care Home on three different days of the week, and at three different times of the day, during June and July.
  25. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire undertook a 2 hour afternoon enter and view visit to Beck House on Tuesday September 27 with the purpose of finding out about residents’ lived experience of care.
  26. Report -

    A joint report with The Carers Centre around Home Care
  27. News -

    Share your stories of care with Healthwatch - we want to recognise all the wonderful work being done to help people in their homes and the wider community. A virtual hug from us to all the social care sector.
  28. News -

    Contact tracing is working well in the South West with an 83.3 per cent success rate compared to a national average of 77 per cent.
  29. News -

    In their annual 'State of Care' report - the first to cover a full year of the pandemic - the independent regulator has called for increased stability and collaboration across services, plus investment in 'new ways of working'.
  30. News -

    The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. Their latest report sets out the challenges the NHS and social care sector face: 'the health and care system is gridlocked, unable to operate effectively.'
  31. Advice and Information -

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

    Find out what the Healthwatch South Gloucestershire staff team and volunteers have been doing during Quarter 1 (April - June 2018)
  33. Report -

    For the past six years, 2012-18, Diversity Trust and Healthwatch have been researching
    the health, care and wellbeing needs and experiences of local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Questioning (LGBTQ+) people.
  34. Report -

    Healthwatch South Gloucestershire Enter and View report Thornbury Hospital on 7 February 2018.
  35. Report -

    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.
  36. Advice and Information -

    Find out more about your health rights.
  37. News -

    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.
  38. Report -

    ‘Evidence for Change’
    Bristol Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans
    Health and Wellbeing Research Report
    September 2016

  39. Report -

    A summary of engagement with rural communities in South Gloucestershire September 2014 - March 2015.
  40. Report -

    This report results from work undertaken by ESW and members of the South West Race
    Equality Forum (SWREF) over an 18 month period between 2012-2013
  41. Report -

    The guide was launched during this NHS Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week at a round-table with major policy-makers where the results of work commissioned from BiHR by the Department of Health was discussed.
  42. Report -

    Report by The Diversity Trust Feb 2015
  43. Advice and Information -

    Find out what you can expect when you visit your doctor.
  44. News -

    We teamed up with local charity the Hive and assembled a team of six people with learning disabilities to look at how access and services could be improved in a project called Hivewatch.
  45. News -

    Our Healthwatch team Maisy and Vicky winged their way down to Bristol Aerospace to the event run by the Diversity Trust. Maisy is seen standing next to Concorde, which was brought to its new home in Bristol, three years ago - Feb 7th, 2017.
  46. Advice and Information -

    The Keep Safe website has put together a range of resources for people with learning difficulties.
  47. Advice and Information -

    Use our new Healthwatch guides to help you get to grips with using health websites and apps. From Patient Access and NHS App to using Zoom, you can download and print our step-by-step guides.
  48. Advice and Information -

    We are marking Mental Health Awareness Week by looking at the barriers faced by the deaf community making them twice as likely to develop a mental health condition. Healthwatch is supporting work to help tackle the added difficulties of Covid-19.
  49. News -

    We are celebrating Volunteers' Week June 1st to 7th by saying a big thank you to our 30 volunteers and 7 trustees who help us at Healthwatch Bristol, North Somerset and South Glos.