News and reports

Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed.

​​​​​​​Avoid the wait at the GP and know when to visit your pharmacist instead. Look at how your pharmacist can help you.

Read the minutes from the meetings of the Carers' Partnership Board April 2022 to March 2023

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

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.

Free testing for coronavirus (Covid-19) from the NHS has ended for most people in England.

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

Our new Life in a care home report, published today, has been welcomed by local councils and our local NHS as "important" and providing "valuable insights".

Our new report, Life in a care home, is published today. And tells the experiences of people living at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic and their friends and families.

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.

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.