News and reports

Healthwatch Northamptonshire visited 25 GP practices in 2014 and spoke to 234 people. We spoke to the practice managers to find out more about how their practice works, what they thought worked well and their views on the challenges faced.

Throughout October, November and December 2014, we ran our public engagement campaign, Make your Voice Count 2. Our aim is to engage with the community and gather your views and experiences.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire’s Young People’s Conference, held on the 18 February 2015, was planned and designed to be a positive and fun day to enable young people between the ages of 12 and 18 to engage with other young people and professionals.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire and the Northamptonshire Young Leaders carried out a survey on the wellbeing of young persons aged 11-25 across the county

There are new duties for local authorities, as well as changes to how care is charged for, who has to pay and how much people will have to pay towards their care.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire has published a report on patient experience of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH)

Healthwatch Northamptonshire has been working in partnership with Northamptonshire County Council on a pilot project to monitor the quality of home (domiciliary) care services.

Working in partnership with the local NHS, we wanted to find out what patients and staff thought of current services and how they could be improved.

We asked 173 people in the A&E waiting area at NGH about what other services they had tried to access before going to A&E and what their experience was

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Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HNW) wants to ensure that the views of children, young people and families are gathered and heard and positively influence current changes in health care for children and young people.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire held a mental health workshop in May to understand the changes happening in mental health services currently and to ensure service users and carers are involved