News and reports

Healthwatch North Somerset has collected feedback detailing the experiences of users accessing Wellbeing Services and professionals supporting the service.

The Care Forum was commissioned to deliver an engagement project by the BNSSG Clinical Commissioning Group. The brief was to recruit and engage with women who did not stop smoking during pregnancy, in order to discuss why this was

People's real life experiences of NHS and social care set out in new report to MPs

On Monday 4th December Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group – Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (BNSSG-CCG STP) held a public listening event at The Royal Hotel, Weston-super-Mare.

Healthwatch North Somerset carried out an enter and view at Yatton surgery. Below is our full report, including details of all the information we gathered during the visit and our recommendations to improve the service

Our Prioritisation panel meets every quarter. It is a group made up of directors, staff and volunteers who look at the public feedback to identify issues and decide about making any recommendations, visits or referrals.

We held our 2018 AGM on 9th October at Nailsea Methodist Church.

The CQC has complied a report with the aims of looking at some of the reasons why oral health is so poor in care homes and to understand some of the genuine challenges care staff face when trying to deliver mouth care.

Mental Health Europe launches a new resource for people experiencing mental health difficulties

"The failing safety net for older people" is a report published by Age UK

Since 2016, 34,000 people have shared their views with Healthwatch about Mental Health.

Our Board meet during the year and the minutes of these meetings are made available for everyone to read. We hope that this helps you stay up to date about our plans and how we are spending our time helping the community.