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Healthwatch is toasting its volunteers after being awarded the Investing in Volunteers (IiV) award. -
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Healthwatch Chair Val Moore was on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Monday calling for local people to be involved and informed about restarting local NHS services. -
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Join us online for our next Board meeting in public. Our Directors will be hearing about our success in achieving the nationally recognised Investors in Volunteers Award. -
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The Covid-19 outbreak and social distancing rules have affected the way organisations and support groups meet. -
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This policy says how we will work positively with media partners to help us achieve better health and care services for local people. It was approved at the Board's meeting in September 2020. -
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Join us online for our next Board meeting in public. Our Directors will be hearing about our engagement work over the last 12 months. -
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Join us online for our next Board meeting in public when we will be formally appointing three new Directors. We'll also be discussing our work with children and young people including involving them in developing mental health services. -
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Three new members have been appointed to our Healthwatch Board. -
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Join us online for our next Board meeting in public when Directors are being asked to approve our work programme and budget for 2021-22. They are also being asked to green light five new policies - including confidentiality and data protection.
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This policy says how we will identify and manage all potential risks. It was approved at our Board's meeting in December 2022. -
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Log on and watch our next Board meeting in public. We will be talking about dental care and access to dentists across our area. Join us and hear an update from NHS England and NHS Improvement, which plans and pays for dental services. -
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Healthwatch has begun its search for a successor to Val Moore – our Chair for the last six years. Val has served two three-year-terms and so she will be stepping down from the post in September. -
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This procedure provides employees with process where they can raise a concern, problem or complaint (called a grievance in employment law) about their employment with us. It was agreed at our Board's meeting in January 2021. -
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This policy says how we review staff pay to ensure to ensure we retain a skilled and committed workforce. It was agreed at our Board's meeting in January 2021. -
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Bookings are now open for 'On equal terms" our Healthwatch Conference and AGM, in July. The spotlight will be on the issue of health inequalities and looking at how people can be better involved in developing services that work well for everyone. -
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It’s Volunteering Week across the UK. A time to recognise the contribution our Healthwatch volunteers make and the value that they bring to our organisation.
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It's been an extraordinary year. And our Annual Report highlights how local health inequalities have been amplified by Covid-19 — and will continue to steer our work in the 12 months ahead. -
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Our Annual Report for 2020-21 is published today and highlights the work of our Healthwatch through the Covid-19 pandemic and more. -
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Log on and watch our next Board meeting in public. This session, we'll be hearing from the Board's Business Development Programme Group and finding out how our latest work projects are progressing. -
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Join our online Annual General Meeting and find out about our work and projects over the last 12 months and take part in our conference and workshops on tackling health inequalities. -
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The views of people in Cambridgeshire have helped make national change to health and care across England. -
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Come along to our next Board meeting in public. We'll be hearing about the appointment of our new Chair, Stewart Francis, and saying goodbye to retiring Chair Val Moore and long-serving Directors Susan Mahmood, Nik Patten and Margaret Robinson. -
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Our Engagement team are back to doing what they love best – meeting people in our local communities and listening to their experiences. -
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Our Healthwatch has appointed a new Chair to succeed Val Moore who is stepping down this month after six years as strategic lead of our organisation. -
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This month we said farewell – and a big thank you – to three of our long-serving Directors.
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Val Moore, our Chair for the last six years, officially handed in her Healthwatch badge last night. -
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Board meeting in public, led by our new Chair Stewart Francis. We be heard about all the Engagement work our team has been doing over the last year and got an update on our 2020 audit of GP websites. The minutes and papers are available here. -
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This policy says how we expect all our staff, Directors and volunteers to behave and support the values of our Healthwatch. It was approved at our Board meeting in November 2021. -
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Our January meeting includes a report about the pandemic experiences of local families with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. We'll also be welcoming three new Directors to the Board. -
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Three new Directors have joined the Healthwatch Board. And Associate Director Chelsia Lake also becomes a Director. -
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Our March meeting includes an experiences report on NHS dentistry. This includes an update on the difficulties finding and accessing a dentist – which we first highlighted in 2019 – and the steps being taken to address the problem. -
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Continuing NHS dentistry issues, the closure of an NHS Patient Helpdesk supporting people waiting for care, and healthcare for Ukrainian refugees in our area were among the topics discussed at our March Board meeting yesterday. -
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Join the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board and help improve health and social care services for people with sensory impairments. -
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At our June meeting, we will be looking at people's experiences of non-emergency patient transport, as well as receiving an update on our community engagement programme and the Adult Social Care Partnership Board project. -
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The introduction of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System from 1 July gives us a unique chance to feed people’s views into the planning and running of services – especially the voices of those who are not being heard now. -
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It has been another extraordinary year as Covid-19 has continued to affect everyone’s lives. Our Annual report tells some of our stories from the last twelve months and the difference you’ve made by sharing your experiences of care.
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Our Annual Report for 2021-22 is published today and highlights the work of our Healthwatch over the last year and shows how your feedback has helped influence improvements in health and care services. -
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Terms of Reference for the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board