Local NHS trust is not consistently meeting the legal rights of deaf and blind patients to accessible information. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS trust is not fully meeting their legal duty to help people with additional communication needs, new FOI findings show. Healthwatch Blackburn with Darwen h...
Your care, your way – Join Healthwatch’s new campaign Clear, understandable information is important to help you make the right health and care decisions. Join our campaign and have your say on what needs to change. Medical and healthcare information can be complex. But, if you’re disabled or have a...
Our nation’s health faces enormous challenges. Find out in Healthwatch England’s Annual Report to Parliament how your feedback has helped NHS and social care services improve care and plans for the future. In 2020-21, Healthwatch supported more than two million people to have their say on care...
Feeling lonely is something that all of us can experience at any point and it can have a huge impact on our wellbeing. It’s important to remember that these feelings can pass and that there are lots of ways we can help each other too. Fancy a cuppa? Fancy a walk? Sometimes reaching out to eac...
Happy New Year to everyone and welcome to our first newsletter of 2022. We’re pleased to share with you that our team is expanding to increase our presence out and about in Blackburn with Darwen gathering residents’ views and experiences of health and social care organisations. We were busy in the...
NHS England and NHS Improvement is launching a new mental health campaign to highlight that feelings of anxiety and depression can affect us all – and the NHS is here to help. The NHS provides a range of talking therapies for common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression which are...
New Better Health campaign offers free support and guidance to those working towards a healthier weight Over 3 in 5 adults (63% of adult population1) are at an increased risk from serious diseases and becoming seriously ill with COVID-19 as a result of being overweight The benefits of losing weight ...
The Department of Health and Social Care launched the latest instalment of the #BetterHealth campaign to encourage adults across the nation to lose excess weight, eat more healthily and get active as we begin the new year. Better Health is working in partnership with 15 weight management and physica...
Cold weather can make some health problems worse, especially for those aged 65 and over, or if you have a long-term health condition such as heart or kidney disease, COPD, bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, or diabetes. Even for those in full health, winter can bring with it coughs, colds, and flu bugs....
Our local primary healthcare providers are taking part in a piece of work to help to see where care can be made better for future young people moving from child to adult healthcare services. The organisation collecting the data is called NCEPOD. NCEPOD is a national organisation that uses data to h...