News and reports

NHS England publishes its ambitions for the health service for 2016/17

Our new report, published today, highlights five common concerns that people across England have shared with Healthwatch about maternity services.

As the year comes to a close, we look back on some of the great things the Healthwatch network has achieved this year.

With a report out today highlighting that one in three women do not feel they are always given the information they need during labour, we take a look at what people have been telling local Healthwatch about maternity services.

The CQC have released a new report looking at the 1,292 visits they carried out between April 2014 and March 2015 to check how people detained under the Act are treated.

Latest statistics show a notable increase in delayed discharge from hospital settings over 12 months. Read our response.

The Regulation of Dental Services Programme Board has released a report reviewing dental regulation and inspection in England, outlines seven key areas of improvement and agreed actions and how it can be made more effective.

New report from the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman finds three key issues with how investigations into serious incidents in the NHS are conducted. Read our response.

Read our new report on how people want to play a bigger role in looking after their own health and care and what would support them to do that.

Carers play a vital role in supporting people who are frail, ill or disabled, but, in doing so, carers often become vulnerable themselves. We look at one example of how local Healthwatch is working to find out if carers could be better supported.

Being able to access primary care services is a key concern that the public have raised with local Healthwatch. Our first in a series of blogs focuses on what one group of mothers in Southend-on-Sea told us.

Accessing GP services is a key concern people share with their local Healthwatch. Here are some of the issues people from different communities face.