News and reports

A new Healthwatch England report, Recognising ADHD: How to improve support for people who need it, reveals the growing challenges adults face in getting assessed and supported for ADHD. It highlights long waits, limited access to services, and the serious impacts ADHD can have on people’s daily lives – particularly for those who are undiagnosed or awaiting assessment.

Healthwatch England has recently published their response to the updated Accessible Information Standard (AIS), a key initiative designed to ensure that health and care services communicate effectively with people who have communication needs or disabilities.

If you're looking for something relaxing, creative, or just a bit different to do, we recommend checking out Arthur’s Shed – a hidden gem of free wellbeing workshops in Cambridge.

A consultation event was held on 16th October 2024 with members of our Partnership Boards. This provided an opportunity for people’s experiences of housing adaptations to be shared, resulting in valuable feedback that informed amendments incorporated into the proposed policy.

A new chapter is beginning for Centre 33, the charity that’s been supporting young people across Cambridgeshire for over 40 years. With a new, much larger building recently purchased in Cambridge, Centre 33 is set to expand its vital work — creating a welcoming and inclusive space designed with and for young people.

In 2022, we published a report titled 'The future of urgent and emergency care at Addenbrooke’s', sharing what local people told us about their experiences and what they wanted to see improved.

Receive £20 an hour for formal meetings! We are working with NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough to recruit 8-10 local people to share lived experiences and local voices. Your insight will help to influence priority areas for your local NHS to focus on. You’ll help review NHS service proposals, offer insight into how changes might affect different people and communities, and advise on how the NHS can better involve and engage local people in meaningful, inclusive ways.

Thanks to your feedback, we’ve helped bring about meaningful improvements to local health and care services. Here are some of the ways your voice has made a difference:

We are really excited to be working on a new calendar of ‘pop-up shops’ within the community to talk about the work of our adult social care groups, called our Partnership Boards. With a brand-new set of pop-up stands and materials ready to go, we'll be heading to an area near you very soon!

After years of growing pressure on pharmacies — and 46,000 lost pharmacy hours here in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough — we’re pleased to see £617 million in new funding announced today by the Department of Health and Social Care and Community Pharmacy England.

Our Adult Social Care Partnership Boards regularly discuss and raise concerns about places to go to the toilet and access to shops. These two items enable people to live their lives as freely and independently as possible.

The Carers Partnership Board has been working with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership to improve services for carers who experience abuse. Our Healthwatch was invited to the launch of the Buses and Businesses against Abuse Campaign, and our Non-Executive Director, Frances Dewhurst, attended and has provided more information about the campaign.