News and reports

Read our annual report for 2019/20 and find out about all the brilliant work carried out by our team and our wonderful volunteers throughout the year.

In 2019 the Commissioning Support Unit carried out a review of special care dentistry in the South West and asked local Healthwatch to help carry out a survey of patients using this service in each local area. Find out more about the work we did.

Each quarter we meet with our Executive Board to decide which areas in health and social care we should focus on in Bath and North East Somerset. These are the minutes from our meeting in December 2020 - read more.

Me in Mind was a small project that listened to children and young people about their feelings and emotions in relation to their mental health. Bath Area Play Project focused on children that were home educated, school refusers and children

This project set out to explore the issue of rural isolation in BANES and understand what the impact for young people who experience this has on their ability to engage in health services, specifically mental health provision.

The project focused on engaging with rural residents in B&NES who are isolated by geography or circumstance and to find out the impact this has had on their experiences of accessing health and social care.

After hearing that access to non-emergency patient transport services was becoming more difficult for local residents, our Executive Board decided we needed to carry out further engagement work. Read our report to find out what people told us.

The Carers Voice project brought carers together each month to identify and address issues they faced in health and social care, and be proactive in finding and co-producing positive solutions to overcome these difficulties. Find out more.

Each quarter we meet with our Executive Board to decide which areas in health and social care we should focus on in Bath and North East Somerset. These are the minutes from our meeting in December 2019. Find out more.

At the last South West Clinical Senate Council meeting climate change and the NHS was discussed and a report with recommendations has been published. Find out more here.

Each quarter we meet with our Executive Board to decide which areas in health and social care we should focus on in Bath and North East Somerset. These are the minutes from our meeting in July 2019 - read more.

Under the Healthwatch regulations, local Healthwatch organisations have the power to 'Enter and View' providers so that our authorised representatives can observe how services are being delivered.