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In south east London, children are usually offered their first MMR vaccine at 1 year old and the second at 18 months which provides lifelong protection. -
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‘Share for Better Care’, a new campaign launched by Healthwatch and the Care Quality Commission, addresses health inequalities across England. -
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Find out what we have been hearing about health and care services in Greenwich and what action service providers have taken as a result of your feedback. -
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A five-day strike by doctors is likely to increase pressure on hospitals across South East London Here's how to get the help you need! -
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A father shares how negligence from hospital staff led to a traumatic experience for his daughter Becky and their family -
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Detecting cancer at an early stage means that treatment is more likely to be successful and ensures that more people survive. -
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Find out what we have been hearing about health and care services in Greenwich and what action service providers have taken as a result of your feedback. -
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On Women’s Day, we were in General Gordon Square with a focus on promoting women’s health screening. Using a combination of strategies in a community setting, including face-to-face interaction (short, informal conversations), incentives (freebies), and information resources (leaflets), Healthwatch Greenwich promoted, encouraged, and reassured women about breast and cervical screening.
Among the women we spoke to, awareness gaps were evident, particularly among recently migrated women. For others, trust in healthcare providers and systems is a key driver, with positive experiences encouraging future attendance. In addition, their children were a motivating factor for some. Negative experiences with GPs and hospitals (even when unrelated to screening) reduced the likelihood of women attending screening appointments. Some expressed fear of discomfort or pain, reducing motivation to take up screening opportunities, and women with mobility challenges faced physical barriers in accessing screening. -
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Find out what we have been hearing about health and care services in Greenwich and what action service providers have taken as a result of your feedback. -
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With rising cases of whooping cough in England, the NHS is encouraging expecting mothers to get the whooping cough vaccine to protect their babies. -
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If you have lost someone to suicide, the South East London Suicide Bereavement Service is here for you. They work with people across the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark, including children and young people who feel that they would benefit from their service. -
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Insect bites or stings are not usually serious and get better in a few days. But sometimes they can become infected or cause a serious allergic reaction. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where to get help for infected bites and stings. -
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On Monday 3 June, Synnovis, a provider of lab services, was the victim of a ransomware cyber attack. This is having significant impact on the delivery of services at Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and primary care service users in Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Bromley, Southwark and Lambeth. -
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Doctors will be on a six-day strike from Thursday 27 June. This is likely to increase pressure on hospitals across south east London. -
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On Monday 3 June, Synnovis, a pathology laboratory which processes blood tests on behalf of a number of NHS organisations, primarily in South East London, was the victim of a cyber attack. NHS England has been made aware that a cyber criminal group published data on Friday 21 June which they are claiming belongs to Synnovis and was stolen as part of this attack. -
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Patients with multiple sclerosis are to benefit from a new 10-minute injection on the NHS that can help slow the progression of disability while cutting their treatment time in hospital. -
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The UK will launch a national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme from Sunday, 1 September 2024, protecting newborns and older adults.
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A record number of people are being diagnosed with dementia in England. Find out how you can get checked for dementia and what to expect if you get a diagnosis. -
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A national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme will start on Sunday, 1 September 2024, protecting newborns and older adults. Find out about RSV, who can get the vaccine, and what you can do to stay safe. -
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The latest poll commissioned by Healthwatch England explores patients experiences of Physician Associates. This research comes at an important time when the NHS plans to triple the number of Physician Associates it employs.
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With the NHS planning to employ more physician associates, find out what care they can offer you and how their role differs from that of doctors. -
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Patients in England with a form of blood cancer known as marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) can now benefit from a take-at-home tablet available on the NHS. The game changing treatment could halt the progression of their cancer and provide an alternative to rounds of chemotherapy. -
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On Thursday, 8 August, the NHS announced the release of a "life-changing" gene-editing therapy treatment for patients living with a genetic blood disorder. -
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On Tuesday, 13 August, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the first national guidance on diagnosing and monitoring diabetic retinopathy in people under the care of hospital eye services. -
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On Friday, 30 August, the government announced the rollout of a life-saving health check programme in workplaces across the country. The new NHS Health Check programme will help protect people from diseases such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes. -
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Today, the NHS will send invitations to over 1 million parents and carers of 2- and 3-year-olds to book the flu vaccine. The vaccine is crucial for preventing serious illnesses and hospitalisations during the winter months. -
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A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect. -
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We are pleased to announce our colleague Folake Segun’s new start as South East London Healthwatch Director. -
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We want to know how your experience of services in Greenwich is being affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From April to June 2019, 997 South-East London residents, patients, carers and their families shared their as views as part of the NHS “What Would You Do?” campaign. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2018-2019- 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. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2017-18- 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 2018-19. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2016-17- 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 2017-18. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2015-16- 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 2016-17.. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2014-15- 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 2015-16.. -
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Our Annual Report for the year 2013-14- 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 2014-15.. -
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Minutes for the Healthwatch Greenwich board meetings 2020 -
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Anyone who is dissatisfied with any aspect of the service received by Healthwatch Greenwich can make a complaint under Healthwatch Greenwich complaints policy. -
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Help shape how Greenwich’s health and care services recover in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic -
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NHS South East London CCG is looking for local people who are interested in local health services and have links to their local community to join the new Engagement Assurance Committee. -
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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. -
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Healthwatch Greenwich is hosting a series of free online events with art, panel discussions, interviews, and crafts, to celebrate Black History Month. -
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We’re looking to appoint up to three new members, residents of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to sit on our Healthwatch South-East London Patient Group. -
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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. -
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Join us on Thursday 26th November at 3pm for our first Healthwatch Greenwich Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Advisory Group meeting. -
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In November we held our first Black Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Advisory group meeting in which we agreed upon which of the service provider commitments the group would prioritise in monitoring. -
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Answers to your COVID-19 vaccine questions from Royal Greenwich experts -
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In January we collected feedback representing 364 responses from the public about health and social care services in Greenwich -
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Since COVID-19 struck, the work of the Healthwatch network to support and listen to local people became more crucial than ever. -
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We are looking for Board members who share our passion for continuing to develop Healthwatch Greenwich as the ‘consumer champion’ for all publicly funded health and social care in Greenwich.