News and reports

From the 1 April 2020, the six (Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in South East London (SEL), all merged to form a new CCG at the regional level.

Following our GP website audit in April 2020, we spoke to PPG leads in Greenwich in order to:map the range of ways PPGs operate; understand where they are working well, & why, and describe the challenges faced by PPGs in the wake of the pandemic.

As lockdown has relaxed over the summer, we talked to local voluntary groups to hear how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the way Greenwich residents are accessing and experiencing health and care services.

In January and February 2020, we carried out a series of visits to Residential Care Homes in Greenwich to ascertain the quality of life, experience and views of residents.

In light of the known impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic(BAME) communties, and our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, in July we held a digital listening event.

Minutes for the Healthwatch Greenwich board meetings 2020

Meeting notes and agenda for the Healthwatch Greenwich PPG meeting July 2020.

Our Annual Report for the year 2019-2020- How your feedback helped us work to improve health and social care services in Greenwich over the past year, and what our key priorities will be for 2020-21.

In 2018, we published a preliminary report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Greenwich. This report builds on our earlier work and follows up on how our recommendations have been addressed.

This briefing focuses on the recent experiences of vulnerable children and their families when accessing health and social care services during the Covid-19 pandemic.

We investigated the breadth and level of information available to patients on GP websites and how easy it is to navigate websites to find information.

On Young Carer’s Awareness day, we visited a secondary school in Greenwich to speak to pupils who are also carers. We discussed their health concerns and how young
people can influence the design and delivery of services that affect them.