1. Tackling disability hate crime

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    It’s Hate Crime Awareness Week 2023. Our Partnership Development Manager Graham Lewis talks about how our Healthwatch and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Partnership Boards are highlighting disability hate crime.

  2. Looking after your mental health

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    This article focuses on tackling anxiety and highlighting the importance of taking care of your mental health.

  3. Cost of living help - support for our communities

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    The rising cost of living risks many being unable to afford essentials to maintain their health. Find out what support is available in Cambridgeshire to help you and your family.

  4. Partnership Boards success over cost-of-living and ability to pay for care

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    Rising energy and food bills have been the main focus of the cost-of-living crisis. However, people’s ability to pay their assessed contributions to councils towards their care and support costs has also been affected by the current situation.

  5. Tackling Health Inequalities - our second Health Champions report

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    Our ‘Tackling Health Inequalities’ report shares the findings of a series of workshops conducted by our Health Champion volunteers.

  6. Healthwatch volunteers investigate health inequalities across Cambridgeshire in latest report

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    Research conducted by a group of our Healthwatch volunteers, known as Health Champions, has helped us deliver a report into health inequalities affecting people locally.

  7. Six-week postnatal checks are failing many new mothers

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    Deep-dive analysis of experiences of 2,693 new mothers and birthing parents shows that six-week postnatal checks – required of GPs in England - are failing many new mothers.

  8. Our CEO Julian Stanley joins radio discussion around mental health services

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    Our CEO Julian Stanley appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Friday 21 July 2023 to speak about issues around the transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Services.

  9. Beating isolation and loneliness on World Mental Health Day

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    World Mental Health Day sheds light on the importance of mental well-being and the struggles many of us face. This year, we're focusing on two pressing themes: isolation and loneliness. In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, we are fortunate to have a valuable resource that can help combat these feelings – NHS Talking Therapies. In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of World Mental Health Day, the challenges of isolation and loneliness, and how NHS Talking Therapies can be a beacon of hope.

  10. New milestone for specialist children’s hospital in the East of England

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    Cambridge Children’s Hospital (CCH) has been given the green light to proceed to the Final Business Case stage of the Project. The Project had its Outline Business Case approved in principle by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care on 29 September 2023.

  11. The Integrated Care System – One year on

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    In this article, we explain the role of Integrated Care Boards and Integrated Care Systems, identify their different roles, and look at how Healthwatch works with them.