News and reports

Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases (BIRD) has been awarded £4,148 to make and promote a series of podcasts for patients from our community pot fund. Find out more.

Alliance of local and national care organisations calls on the South West to give feedback to shape future care. Read more.

Health leaders at Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group have asked the public not to throw away the recent progress made in tackling coronavirus. Read more.

A worrying trend of patients avoiding important face-to-face hospital appointments has prompted a warning that doing so could have serious implications for long-term health. Read more.

A Quality Account is a report about the quality of services offered by an NHS healthcare provider. Each year local Healthwatch are given the opportunity to respond to these. Find out more about this and read our responses to providers.

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.

Berkeley Wilde, Director at The Diversity Trust, writes about the history of LGBT+ Pride Month and why it still matters. Read more.

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.

B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire Maternity Voices Partnership want to gather the views of pregnant women and those who have had their babies with a survey they are running. They will share the findings with local maternity services. Find out more.

NHS England and Improvement have given notice that Jhoots Pharmacy in Bath will be closing on 31 July 2020. Find out more.

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