During the Coronavirus outbreak, many PPGs suspended their activities allowing practice staff to focus on health emergency. However, most proactive PPGs continued working and were creative in their approach. When traditional face to face engagement is not possible, PPGs are exploring new ways of engaging with the practice and patients. Dynamic patients’ feedback is crucial …

The Patients Association is currently carrying out a survey to find out how patients feel about visiting GP surgeries as lockdown eases. They are trying to find out: If patients are concerned about returning to face-to-face appointments with GPs and practice nurses What would improve a patient’s sense of security What measures patients think practices should …

Healthwatch Central West London wants to speak to local users of NHS mental health services in Central North West London about how local care can address their protected characteristics.   Healthwatch Central West London is piloting a project on the NHS Healthwatch Central West London is piloting a project on the NHS Equality Delivery System …

  Young Healthwatch Westminster is running an online Q&A webinar for young people, in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Connecting Care for Children and Volunteer Police Cadets, on Thursday 30th July at 5pm on Microsoft Teams.   The webinar will give young people the chance to put their questions and concerns around COVID-19 to …

The latest results from Young Healthwatch’s ongoing survey with young people in London is here: YHW Mental Health Survey Final V When we first began reaching out to young people  in 2019 (between the ages of 14 and 25) who were living, working or studying in Westminster, we wanted them to tell us about the …

Join a series of online workshops facilitated by The Fandangoe Kid, a Hackney-based print artist, to explore challenges and issues facing young people. The workshops will experiment with typography, layouts and graphic elements, alongside mixed media and collage, to make bold and engaging statements, to gather a collective voice in response to essential questions concerning …

The pre-booking process, using the NHS’s triage line, will allow A&E departments to be managed more efficiently and reduce waiting times. The NHS is to pilot a “call first” model of Accident & Emergency which could be rolled out across the country, health chiefs have said, as reported in The Telegraph. Sir Simon Stevens said …