Annual Report 2015/16
This has been a great year for Healthwatch B&NES. The strong collaboration between staff and volunteers has enabled us to achieve a lot, with the main headline being an 89% increase in the amount of patient and public engagement work carried out compared to the previous year.
Our priorities
Using the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, Health and Wellbeing Strategy and the information heard direct from local people, the 2015/16 priorities were:
- commissioning of community healthcare services through the ‘Your care, your way’ process
- people’s experiences of secondary care, including patient discharge
- mental health
- primary care
- older people, end of life and dementia (through our enter and view programme)
- lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) communities.
Priorities for us during 2016/17 include hearing more from people with learning difficulties, hearing views on primary care, identifying the mental health needs of children and young people, hearing views on social care and hospital discharge.
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