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Share for Better Care Week is here!
This Share for Better Care Week, take three minutes to share your experience of health and social care.
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Help Shape Malaria Prevention in Greenwich – We Need Your Voice!
Each year, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) see around 115 cases of malaria locally — representing 8% of all UK cases — and almost all these infections are preventable with the right advice and protection.
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World Oral Health Day – 20 March 2026
Celebrated globally every year on 20 March and organised by the FDI World Dental Federation, this day unites communities around the world to promote better oral health and raise awareness of the impact a healthy mouth has on overall wellbeing.
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Nutrition & Hydration Week 2026: Supporting Wellbeing Across Greenwich
Every March, organisations around the world come together to recognise Nutrition & Hydration Week, an annual campaign designed to highlight and celebrate the importance of food and fluids in maintaining health and wellbeing. This year, from 16 to 22…
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Safeguarding starts with conversation: what we learned at St Peter’s Church in Woolwich
As part of our Raising Awareness of Abuse project, we hosted a safeguarding awareness session at St Peter’s Church in Woolwich, following Sunday Mass for Black Christian community. Around 60 local residents, many of who told us they had never heard…
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Conversation with Muslim Women on safeguarding and abuse, points out the lack of culturally appropriate services
In January, we joined the Muslim women’s group at Woolwich Community Centre for a conversation about safeguarding and abuse. Women discussed wider realities from domestic and financial pressures, to the ways racism and discrimination shape both risk and…
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Help Shape the New Digital Vital 5 Check
Residents across southeast London are being invited to help design a new digital version of the Vital 5 Check — a tool that supports people to…
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Understanding the UK Meningitis Outbreak — What Greenwich Residents Need to Know
A recent cluster of meningitis B cases in the UK has prompted heightened public health monitoring, after an unusually rapid rise in infections was…
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Shaping Better Autism Support Across South East London
Healthwatch Greenwich welcomes the ongoing work across South East London to improve support for autistic persons and their carers. Listening to lived…
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Latest reports and publication
What did we hear from November 2025 to January 2026? What action has been taken?
This quarter, we heard from 511 Greenwich residents about their experience of health and care services in Greenwich.
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Together We Prevent: Youth Participatory Action on HPV
Download the full report and summary report at the end of this page.
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