Healthwatch Network awards 2022: Shortlist announced

The Healthwatch network awards aim to showcase the best projects carried out by local Healthwatch over the last year.

The projects entered this year were of an incredibly high standard, showing where teams have gone above and beyond to ensure health and social care services meet everyone’s needs.

Impact award 2022

This year our award looks to celebrate the difference local Healthwatch has made.

We wanted to celebrate projects that have used people’s experiences to improve care and lead to outstanding outcomes.

Who has been shortlisted?

Healthwatch Bolton for ensuring more people from minority communities get screened for cervical cancer by increasing information and raising awareness to help remove the barriers some communities face.

Healthwatch Brighton and Hove for getting a local GP surgery to reverse a plan to reduce their opening hours. A step which would have left residents struggling to access appointments.

Healthwatch Bristol for implementing changes to the discharge process at their local hospital to make it safer for patients and ensure people better understood what was involved.

Healthwatch Hackney for getting over 80% of their local practices to change their patient registration policy, so it's easier for those experiencing homelessness to see a GP.

Healthwatch Kent for improving mental wellbeing and digital skills within their Nepalese community, ensuring they can access care and reducing inequalities the community faces.

Healthwatch Norfolk for implementing a hearing loss and deaf-friendly charter that highlights good communication practices and ensures people with hearing loss can access primary care online.

Healthwatch South Gloucestershire for improving the care offered to new mothers by the health visiting service. Their work has helped to develop new services that better meet the needs of new parents. 

Healthwatch Sunderland for getting mammogram recall letters made available in an easy-read format for all women in England who need it.  And, for raising awareness that this service is now available.