News and reports

It's business as usual for Healthwatch says CEO Sandie Smith. And it's more important than ever for local people to tell us how their health and care has been affected during the coronavirus crisis.

People receiving direct payments for adult social care are to get a 10% rise from Cambridgeshire County Council.

Debbie - our Partnership Support Officer - shares her experience of caring for two people with learning disabilities during lockdown. And explains what she's put in place to support them.

Doddington and Wisbech minor injury units are to close - temporarily - on Monday, 6 April.

Read about the issues being discussed by our Older People's Partnership Board over the last year.

Read more about the issues discussed by the Sensory Impairment Partnership Board this year.

Read the minutes from the meetings of the Carers' Partnership Board from the last year.

Read about the issues the Learning Disability Partnership Board has been discussing over the last year.

Read the minutes from Physical Disability Partnership Board over the last year.

Our strategy - approved earlier this month - sets out what we think is most important for Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Healthwatch Peterborough to do over the next five years.

The coronavirus crisis has put huge pressure on our local hospitals.

To make sure they can look after people with acute needs, hospitals are changing the way patients no longer needing a bed are discharged.

The local NHS is postponing all non-essential appointments from 20 March to help it deal with the pressures caused by COVID-19 coronavirus.