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Join a series of online workshops facilitated by The Fandangoe Kid, a Hackney-based print artist, to explore challenges and issues facing young people. The workshops will experiment with typography, layouts and graphic elements, alongside mixed media and collage, to make bold and engaging statements, to gather a collective voice in response to essential questions concerning young people. Full details, schedule and registration via Thrive LDN’s website. -
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In our first ‘in-person’ event after lockdown restrictions eased, we brought together people who receive home care, relatives, unpaid carers, and workers from Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea Councils for a workshop on improving local home care services. -
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Following an email exchange with the group lead, our Youth Engagement Manager, Alex, attended Westminster Council’s ‘Tuesday Group’ in March to run an engagement workshop that would start discussions with young care leavers. -
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Today marks the five year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. This is an important day for our community and many local groups have organised events of commemoration and remembrance.
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Healthwatch Westminster and RBKC leads have completed a report on the importance of our local food aid resources and the residents they serve. -
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The purpose of this policy is to provide good practice guidance on Enter and View visits to ensure they are carried out in an effective, accountable and transparent manner
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Our recent co-production event brought together representatives from local authorities, mental health professionals, and young service users to discuss the findings from our recent report, 'Don't presume we are fine just because we look OK.' -
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Sharing the views of 207 women across North West London
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Pop up hubs – including local libraries situated around the borough – will be transformed into vaccination spots so that residents of all ages can get vaccinated against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) -
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Senior NHS doctors in England have accepted an improved pay deal from the government after months of striking. Read our response. -
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Pop up hubs – including local libraries and community spaces situated around the borough of Westminster – continue to be transformed into vaccination spots so that residents of all ages can get vaccinated against Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) this summer. -
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In partnership with The Advocacy Project, we invited the renowned poet and author Michael Rosen on 29 July to share his experience with ill health and overcoming various challenges. Following this event, we’re so excited to introduce our 2024 poetry competition Survivor Stories, which will be judged Michael himself. -
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Sexual health is an important, and sometimes overlooked topic when it comes to health. Read below to find out how you can take care and protect your sexual health. -
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We recently collaborated with Healthwatch Westminster to conduct a project exploring patient and carer experiences with intermediate care services provided in Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea. -
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We recently collaborated with Healthwatch Westminster to conduct a project exploring patient and carer experiences with intermediate care services provided in Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea.
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Our patient experience reports give a snapshot of what we're hearing from local people -
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Pop up hubs – including local libraries and community spaces situated around the borough of Westminster – continue to be transformed into vaccination spots so that residents of all ages can get vaccinated against Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) this September. -
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World Suicide Prevention Day is held every year on 10 September to raise awareness about suicide, unite people to share hope and to promote preventative measures to reduce the number of suicides and suicide attempts globally. Read below to find about the support available to you. -
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Are rising costs of living affecting your access to healthcare? -
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Four questions staff should ask you or a loved one about your oral health if you’re a care home resident, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quick guide. -
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We’ve been hearing from a number of care home residents in Westminster and RBKC about the difficulties they have when trying to access dental care. This got us thinking about how dental care is managed in care homes. -
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The LDC Confederation has partnered with the Healthwatch London Network to conduct a survey to understand the public’s expectations of NHS dentistry. -
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How can I get the most out of my next visit to the dentist? Take a look at our tips to help you prepare for your appointment and make sure you understand your treatment and how much it will cost. -
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Do you or a loved one need help with social care? Read the article below and find out answers to key questions about who can access adult social care and how to pay for it. -
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We’re collecting feedback about maternity and neonatal care across North West London
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Five things you should expect from home care, domiciliary care or help in the home. -
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This year, Learning Disability Week is taking place from Monday 17 - Sunday 23 June 2024. The theme this year is "Do you see me?" which is all about being seen, heard and valued. -
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CAMHS has designed a new handbook for parents and carers of children and young people with a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder. Find out more below. -
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The Annual report 2016/17 provides information about the areas we have worked on, the changes we have be involved with and the valuable feedback our residents have provided. -
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NHS England have told local NHS organisations across the country to develop plans to support the future health and care needs of their local population. These plans are called
Sustainability and Transformation Plans. -
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We have carried out a review into social isolation and loneliness of older people across the RBKC. loneliness has been recognised as one of the nine focus areas in the new healthcare plans
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Our Dignity Champions key priorities are to understand the views and experiences of local residents, and to speak up about dignity to improve the way services are organised and delivered. This report details what we found at Alan Monkhill in 2017. -
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Our Dignity Champions key priorities are to understand the views and experiences of local residents, and to speak up about dignity to improve the way services are organised and delivered. This report details what we found at Princess Louise in 2017. -
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This report tells you about some of the work that we carried out in 2016 – 2018. It details what people told us about local health and care services and how we used this to talk to commissioners and providers of services to bring about improvements. -
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The Enter and View visit to the Curve was conducted as part of Healthwatch CWL ongoing work listening to local people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire and ensuring that NHS and local Authority councils include their views as they commission health and care services. -
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In January, Healthwatch Central West London (HWCWL) launched its first ever small grants project.
The project asked local organisations who work with groups who are often under-represented in public discussions about health and social care to apply for the £500 grant, by telling us how they would gather their communities’ experiences of health and social care to support our ongoing local engagement and research. -
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We are pleased to share our latest report, Insights from BAME Communities in Central West London 2020, which presents the views of 73 individuals from BAME communities, who we held focus groups with, in partnership with BME Health Forum, last year. -
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The Enter and View Visit to Rainsford Mowlem Ward was carried out due to general concerns in the Borough about older peoples’ health and social care -
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Healthwatch Central West London has today published a response to NHS England’s consultation on the future of Integrated Care Systems
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The theme of this year’s report is ‘Then and Now’. It’s been designed to highlight how our work in 2020-21 has helped local patients, residents, and carers engage with changes to health and social care provision during the pandemic.
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As the NHS moves more services online, we have been speaking to local patients, residents, and carers about how well digital tools work for them -
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We were delighted to work with the Garway Medical Practice Patient Participation Group (PPG) earlier this month to help Garaway patients to understand the issues surrounding General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR). -
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For the past 8 months, we have been carrying out public engagement in collaboration with a range of grassroots partnerships to understand how people have been using health services and healthcare support ‘online’. Using health services in this way is becoming known as Digital Healthcare*. -
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Our work is focused on giving local people a voice in health and care; however, we also like to share when our work gets mentioned internationally…