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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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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 people across Bath & North East Somerset.
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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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131 local Healthwatch services unite to oppose government plans to undermine independent public voice
131 local Healthwatch services across England have signed a powerful open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, urging the…
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Local Healthwatch champions the voices of 100,089 people in the last year
Listening, empowering, and driving change across diverse communities.
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Get repeat prescriptions in now to avoid being left short this Easter weekend
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…
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Latest reports and publication

Report: The strain of unpaid caring
The experience of unpaid carers across BathNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).
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Report: “I can’t make them accept help”
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.
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