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Putting people at the centre of their care

Guidance from NICE, developed with the help of Healthwatch Surrey, highlights how you should be an equal partner in your care. Alice Maynard, Chair of the Guideline Committee explains more.
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Do you understand how hospitals, GPs and care services are changing in your area?

Our country’s health and care services face big challenges. We are living longer, but more people need help with long-term health conditions, adding pressures to services. This demand for support comes at a time when the cost of care is increasing.
Using the views from the survey of local Healthwatch, together with our wider work, we have helped to inform the Health Select Committee’s inquiry into whether STPs are working.
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MPs call on Government to address delays in discharging older patients

The Committee of Public Accounts urges new measures to tackle scale and cost of delays in discharging patients from hospital. Read our response.
The report has found that there is a ‘poor understanding of the scale of discharge problems’ and an ‘unacceptable variation in local performance on discharging such patients’.
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