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Key messages from the collective Healthwatch evidence for May 2021

The move to more digitally-led healthcare has worked well for some but excluded others over the past year. This report by Healthwatch England explores how people have been excluded and what needs to happen to get the care they need.

We need to increase the number of donors for organ donation who come from Black Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Find out what the public has been telling us about health and social care during May 2021, including the issues people have faced accessing GP services.

People over 40 can get their first dose of the vaccine at Charlton Athletic Football Club on Saturday 19 June from 8am to 8pm.

The government has announced a 4-week pause at Step 3 in the roadmap out of lockdown.

Recording, presentations and notes from our Health Inequalities event on 25 May 2021

Congratulations to Rebecca Mukasa, Deputy Ward Sister for Larch Ward at University Hospital Lewisham who has been chosen as our Employee of the Month for May 2021.

A number of national media reports and social media posts are claiming that your personal health data will be shared if you don't opt out now. This sounds alarming, but is not entirely true.

Healthwatch England has joined forces with Traverse to explore vaccination confidence among people from African, Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani backgrounds living in the UK.

Increasing the number of black people who donate blood is an urgent priority for NHS Blood and Transplant.

Vaccine Champions are visiting Woolwich, West Greenwich, Thamesmead, Plumstead, Eltham West and the Peninsula to answer your questions about the vaccine.