News and reports

Read our report that highlights what we found when we analysed the mental health care experiences that over 34,000 people shared with us.

For the past three years, mental health has been the number one health and social care issue for the Healthwatch network. Take a look to see what people have told Healthwatch about their experiences.

We want to know more about your experience of mental health support when planning to get pregnant, during pregnancy, at the birth of your child and afterwards.

Find out more about our upcoming work on mental health and our first phase of research.

After being told by patients that local GPs weren’t meeting the needs of patients with communication difficulties, one local Healthwatch decided to take action.

Find out what more about what we'll be talking about at our public Committee Meeting.

Here we look at six things you should expect when making a complaint about social care services.

We have worked with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, as part of the Quality Matters initiative, to help make it easier for the public and professionals to understand how to make and respond to social care complaints.

After reviewing over 170 entries, we are pleased to announce all of the finalists for the Healthwatch Network Awards 2018.

Find out more about our plans for 2018/19.

New report from the Care Quality Commission looks at how well health and social care services are working together across 20 local authority areas.

To help celebrate 70 years of the NHS we're collecting 70 stories of how people's experiences are being used by health and care services and professionals to help make them better.