News and reports

This #CarersWeek we pledge to connect carers to each other and to information and support with caring.

Take a look at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) quick guide to discussing and planning support following a dementia diagnosis.

End of life care is support for people who are in the last months or years of their life. The guidance on the NHS website helps you know what to expect, how to plan ahead and how to manage your day to day decisions.

Veronica Male is a Chartered Legal Executive at a Northamptonshire solicitors, specialising in Court of Protection work and has been a volunteer with Healthwatch Northamptonshire for almost 2 years.

Northamptonshire Health and Care Partnership (NHCP) have asked us to make a pledge called #mywellbeingpledge to take steps for ourselves and for others to look at our mental health, just as much our physical health.

Together with Northamptonshire Maternity Voices Partnership, we carried out a 15 Steps Maternity Visit across both hospital trusts in Northamptonshire – Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital. This is the report for NGH.

This Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June), Healthwatch Northamptonshire is looking forward to celebrating the work of our local community and promoting the valuable positive impacts volunteers have on our society.

Together with Northamptonshire Maternity Voices Partnership, we carried out a 15 Steps Maternity Visit across both hospital trusts in Northamptonshire – Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital. This is the report for KGH.

Local people shared their views about how they want local health and care services to improve.

Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments.

The Northamptonshire Health and Wellbeing Fora enable engagement with a broad range of public sector and voluntary organisations in seven districts and boroughs in the county.

During the autumn of 2018, Carers’ Voice and Healthwatch Northamptonshire undertook a small piece of work to identify the impact of recent cuts to Adult Social Care by Northamptonshire County Council on carers and those they care for.