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Read our autumn 2025 newsletter
The past few months have seen us busy getting out into the community and listening to your views about health and care.
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Complete our survey - Breaking Barriers: Improving Access to Cancer Services – Including Screening
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.
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Sign our petition to review the decision to abolish independent local Healthwatch
Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.
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Read our summer 2025 newsletter
The past few months have seen us busy getting out into the community and listening to your views about health and care.
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Complete our blood pressure survey
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.
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'Amazon-style' prescription tracking goes live in NHS App for millions of patients
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.
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NHS industrial action: 14th November to 19th November 2025
Resident (formerly, junior) doctors are due to strike tomorrow for five days from 7am, Friday 14th November to 6:59am, Wednesday 19th November.
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NHS weight management survey
The NHS in our area wants to hear your views on local weight management services. Share your views by completing their survey.
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Council seeks residents’ views on how technology can improve adult social care services
Residents and community partners are being asked for their views on making the most of digital technology to help transform adult social care for…
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Latest reports and publication
Report: Empowering the patient - how to increase the understanding and testing of high blood pressure
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.
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Report: 'I eat once a week maybe" - The health impacts of food insecurity
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.
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