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Find out what happened when one Healthwatch Bolton worked with their local hospital to improve access for people with disabilities.

New figures show that 562 written complaints were made to the NHS per day in 2014-15, however recorded complaints are only part of the picture.

Providers of home care turned to local Healthwatch for help highlighting their concerns about the difficulties they were facing in delivering effective care. We spoke to Debbie Pritchard from Healthwatch Cornwall to find out more.

Patients struggling to access GP services helped by Healthwatch Hertfordshire

Healthwatch East Sussex recently hit the news for the fantastic response they received as a result of their plea for volunteers. They tell us the secret of their success.

As part of our research into unsafe discharge from hospital and care settings we conducted a Freedom of Information Request in May 2015 of 164 hospital trusts.

Young people often feel that their voices aren’t heard. By understanding how young people feel about their emotional health and wellbeing we can learn what we can do to make a difference for them.

Find out what happened at our public Committee Meeting.

Home care services are essential to enabling older people to continue to remain at home and independent. Healthwatch Bradford looked into the quality of local care and found that a number of improvements were needed.

We write to NHS England to ask for clarity on how additional funds for improvements to gender identity services will be spent.

People can’t help improve health services if they don’t know who to talk to. That’s why patients will now be guided to local Healthwatch by health services to do just that.

After hearing that people were struggling to get to hospital appointments due to problems with local transport, Healthwatch Buckinghamshire decided to investigate.