News and reports

High blood pressure (also called hypertension) affects around one in three adults in the UK - yet most people don’t know they have it. You can have high blood pressure and feel completely well, but over time it increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease.

Resident (formerly, junior) doctors are due to strike tomorrow for five days from 7am, Friday 14th November to 6:59am, Wednesday 19th November.

The NHS in our area wants to hear your views on local weight management services. Share your views by completing their survey.

Food insecurity is a growing issue across the UK, and is closely linked to health inequalities. We looked at the experiences of 78 people facing food insecurity across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.

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

A new collaboration has launched which aims to uncover inequalities and barriers to accessing cancer care and shape how services can be improved for the most vulnerable people in Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire.

Residents and community partners are being asked for their views on making the most of digital technology to help transform adult social care for people across Bath & North East Somerset.

The experience of unpaid carers across BathNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).

The experience of unpaid carers across BathNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), when someone they are caring for refuses to accept help that could benefit them.

Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.

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.