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Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments. -
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End of life care is support for people who are in the last months or years of their life. The guidance on the NHS website helps you know what to expect, how to plan ahead and how to manage your day to day decisions. -
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Help make sure that your practice meets people’s accessibility requirements using this checklist from Healthwatch Slough. -
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Speak up on what matters to you about health services -
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A community led approach to health and wellbeing being explored in Weston-super-Mare -
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The community hub in Nailsea, Number 65, has set up a new project to help people with diabetes stay active and well. -
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Making sure a child has enough to eat during the day is the focus of a special project which could be introduced in Clevedon next year. -
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There have been more than 2,300 responses to the Healthy Weston consultation which ended last month. -
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Feedback on your experiences of IBD care is wanted. -
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Few spaces left for teenagers to learn about true-to-life medical situations -
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The Citizens Advice team will be holding their very last advice session in The Badger Community Resource Centre next Friday, July 5. -
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We enjoyed meeting two groups, The North Somerset Black Minority Ethnic (BME) Network and The Speaking Up Group run by Weston College and North Somerset People First. -
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Are more people diagnosed - statistics taken from the Office for National Statistics blog April 2019 -
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A powerful film about a family dealing with an unexpected and devastating death will be shown in Clevedon in a partnership between the Curzon and Second Step mental health charity. -
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What Would You Do To Make The NHS Better?
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Coroners in England and Wales may be given new powers to investigate stillbirths, so that each baby death is independently assessed. -
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Did you know that BNSG has produced a list of frequently asked questions regarding the Healthy Weston Consultation? -
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Consultation on service Model for people with Learning Disabilities and behaviour that challenges -
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BBC reports young people in England are being targeted by the government in a bid to recruit thousands of more care workers. -
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Over 100 Healthwatch representatives from across the country came together to meet their MPs at an event in parliament last week. -
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The NHS has recently launched the NHS Apps Library. -
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NHS England leaders say that the Long Term Plan could save up to 500,000 lives over the next ten years by focusing on prevention and early detection. -
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Invitation to Join NSCP’s Patient and Public Involvement Group -
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Healthwatch North Somerset welcomes outcome for patients in WSM -
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The Accessible Information Standard requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand, regardless of their circumstances. -
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We have put together some answers to the most frequently asked questions about Healthwatch North Somerset, including who we are, what powers we have and how important feedback from the public is. -
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Safeguarding is designed to protect children and vulnerable adults from harm, abuse or neglect, and remove them from abusive situations. -
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A hard-hitting campaign aimed at young drinkers in Weston-super-Mare has been re-launched in the run-up to Christmas. -
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People across the district are being reminded to stay at home and avoid visiting local hospitals if they have any of the symptoms of norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug. -
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The CQC are asking care providers and the organisations that represent them to give us their views on the regulatory fees they’ll be charging from 1 April 2016. -
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A new report commissioned by the National Children’s Bureau has found that North Somerset has the highest percentage of obese children out of the South West region’s 15 local authorities. -
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In 2014, Addaction (a drug and alcohol service provider) and The Hepatitis C Trust, with support from AbbVie, launched a unique pilot in the South West to encourage and widen access to hepatitis C testing and treatment among people who inject drugs. -
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The North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group have announced a new Community Services contract in North Somerset -
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The Portishead Porters scheme was started 23 years ago, providing volunteer drivers who will take people to and from hospital appointments from their front door. -
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Death remains a taboo subject in our society. No one seems to want to talk about it, or knows what to do or say when someone is dying, or dies. -
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Addaction is launching a new programme called Right Turn to work with veterans who need support with an alcohol or drug dependency. -
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North Somerset Council is looking to redesign its short breaks provision for children and young people with additional needs following the introduction of the Children and Families Act 2014 in September, which has major implications for how services -
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A new website is launched that will help bridge the communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients diagnosed with mild chronic kidney disease (CKD) -
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Nearly 90 people accessed support for domestic abuse in just one day across North Somerset, a snapshot study has revealed. -
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Issued on behalf of South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).
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Weston-Super-Mare is being held up as the gold standard nationally for treating people suffering with the deadly virus Hepatitis C. -
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Tell the Care Quality Commission about your care at Weston General Hospital at their events coming up specifically designed to gather your views