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The past few months have seen us busy getting out into the community and listening to your views about health and care.

131 local Healthwatch services across England have signed a powerful open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, urging the government to reconsider proposals that would bring public voice functions under the control of local authorities and NHS bodies.

We need your views about how to encourage more people to get their blood pressure checked - particularly those who are at risk of having high blood pressure.

Listening, empowering, and driving change across diverse communities.

Our 2024/2025 annual report shares how we've listened and championed the voices of people, partners and organisations across Bath and North East Somerset, to help shape health and social care services.

Millions of patients can now track their prescriptions thanks to the rollout of a new feature in the NHS App helping to reduce unnecessary calls and visits to pharmacies.

The past few months have seen us busy getting out into the community and listening to your views about health and care.

Any person nearing the end of their current supply of regular medication is being urged to get their repeat prescriptions in as soon as possible to avoid being left without over the long Easter weekend.

We visited the Sulis ward at St Martin’s Hospital in Bath on 19th February 2025. Sulis ward is managed by HCRG, alongside John Stacey ward at Paulton Memorial Hospital.

Our Enter and View visits are a way that we can gather information about services and collect views of service users, their carers, staff and relatives.

Following on from our visit we have made some recommendations to the service provider based on the feedback we have received and what we observed.

This Code of Conduct sets out the expectations Healthwatch Bath and North East Somerset has of all those who work or carry out activities for it, in a voluntary or paid capacity, including trustees, employees, students and volunteers.

We want to know what happens when someone rejects being given care and the impact that this has on their carer. We are also interested in what it is like to access care on behalf of someone else and the barriers that carers face.

The NHS is encouraging online access across many service areas. We wanted to find out what this digital push means for patients.