Healthwatch Staffordshire- Access to Social Care Assessments Survey
Healthwatch Staffordshire is the independent local champion for health and social care services in Staffordshire. Part of our role is to understand the experiences of people who are using these services and to give…
View articleSearch begins for panel members to help transform health and care across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
The search has begun for volunteers to form a new People’s Panel that will provide views and advice on plans to transform health and care services from the comfort of their own homes. The panel…
View articleBe a commissioner event – Difficult Decisions
Commissioners from the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have the task of “buying” health services for local populations on behalf of the NHS. It means constantly having to make difficult decisions that benefit…
View articlePrescribing Gluten-Free foods in south Staffordshire
In the past year (June 2018 to July 2019), Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula and Stafford and Surrounds Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) prescribed 16,023 prescriptions for gluten-free foods at a…
View articleDifficult Decisions – Stakeholder Briefing
The six Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent want the views of the patients across the area as they plan services for the future. Altogether the six CCGs commission over 800 different services…
View articleSTAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT SET TO INTRODUCE ONE HEALTH AND CARE ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CARE RECORDS
Patients’ health and care records in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent will soon be available electronically to authorised health and social care practitioners. It will mean a doctor in a hospital, or a paramedic who attends a…
View articleNHS LONG-TERM PLAN – STOKE-ON-TRENT AND STAFFORDSHIRE
This report is the result of a collaboration between Healthwatch Stoke-on-Trent, Healthwatch Staffordshire and Healthwatch England. Its purpose is to share the views of the general public when asked about Health and Care across the…
View articleSTAKEHOLDER BRIEFING: AUTISM SERVICES IN SOUTHERN STAFFORDSHIRE
In light of recent posts on social media regarding autism services in south Staffordshire, we would like to reassure patients, carers and their families about the provision. The current contract for delivering autism services in…
View articleENGAGEMENT STARTS ON SERVICES FORMERLY AT THE GEORGE BRYAN CENTRE
On 12th February 2019, a fire destroyed the west wing of the George Bryan Centre, based within the grounds of Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital in Tamworth. The centre is owned by Midlands Partnership NHS…
View articleRECRUITING FOR HEALTHWATCH STAFFORDSHIRE MANAGER
SALARY BETWEEN £25,000 – £35,000 PER ANNUM DEPENDENT ON QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE Healthwatch Staffordshire is the independent champion for local people’s voices in health and social care in Staffordshire. From 1 April 2013, this service…
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