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Kettering General Hospital and Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire have won a national award for work they have undertaken with young people. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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There are different ways in which you can become involved depending on your interests and how much time you would like to commit.
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Take a look at Healthwatch Northamptonshire’s 10 top tips when engaging with children and young people – produced by EMAHSN (East Midlands Academic Health Science Network). -
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Have you had problems with NHS administrative processes, such as booking appointments, referrals, prescriptions or other correspondence with NHS services? We want to hear how people's care experience has been affected by poor NHS administration. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire has been monitoring the rapidly unfolding situation around COVID-19 on a daily basis to consider its impact on how we work and how we best support our staff, volunteers, partners and stakeholders. -
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The Healthwatch Northamptonshire annual plan helps provide commissioners and key stakeholders with an overview of planned activity for the next 12 months. -
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During the current crisis, it is really important that we hear about your good and bad experiences of health and social care. -
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During 2019-20 we undertook some exciting projects and continued to ensure that the views and needs of the people of Northamptonshire are considered, particularly as services and organisations are restructured. -
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Connected Together can help organisations in many ways to effectively engage with your community. -
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire Chair, Dr David N Jones, is standing down from his global leadership role as Coordinator of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development after more than a decade in the global team. -
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Thank you to all that attended and made our Annual Meeting a great opportunity to network as well as a chance to find out more about what Healthwatch Northamptonshire achieved in 2016/17 and to hear from Jane Mordue from Healthwatch England. -
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The care you receive from a GP is usually very good and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong. This page tells you where to start when you want to sort out a problem with a GP. -
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The care you receive in an NHS hospital is usually very good and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong. This page tells you where to start when you want to sort out a problem with an NHS hospital. -
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NHS dental care is usually very good and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong. This page tells you where to start if you have a problem with an NHS dentist. -
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If you’re unhappy about your treatment for a mental health problem, you may be able to make a complaint. -
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A collection of local health and social care complaints contacts -
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NHS and adult social care are usually very good and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong. -
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Healthwatch England has been working with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to develop a Single Complaints Statement for both professionals and the public -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire has had a busy year!
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Healthwatch Northamptonshire volunteers Sheila White and Wendy Patel have been shortlisted for a prestigious national award for undertaking 43 visits to 50 wards and departments at Kettering General Hospital (KGH) between April 2019 and March 2020. -
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Our annual meeting was held virtually via Zoom on 29 October 2020 at 11am and was a success; streaming to viewers Live on YouTube -
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Two of our dedicated volunteers who made an amazing 43 trips to inspect 36 wards and departments in a year at Kettering General Hospital have won Healthwatch Northamptonshire a national award. -
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As 2020 draws to a close, we would like to thank our volunteers, staff, and those that shared their views with Healthwatch Northamptonshire during this difficult year. -
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Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire was commissioned by Healthy Young Daventry to carry out a study into emotional wellbeing and self-harm among young people in Daventry. -
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VoiceAbility provide advocacy for people who need help to have their voice heard and to make complaints to health and social care services. -
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Healthwatch Rutland have an exciting opportunity for someone to join their team to lead on the development of their volunteer base and to facilitate engagement and involvement of local people in their work. -
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The Healthwatch North and West Northamptonshire annual plan helps provide commissioners and key stakeholders with an overview of planned activity for the next 12 months. -
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This year has been a very difficult one for everybody. While Healthwatch could not visit health and social care premises, we were still able to investigate the impact of the pandemic on people's access to the services that matter to them most. -
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Like everyone else across the country, Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire were impacted by COVID-19. We started last year in a full national lockdown but that has not stopped some amazing work from happening. -
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Connected Together CIC has been awarded a new contract to run Healthwatch North and West Northamptonshire -
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Everyone has different experiences of care - Healthwatch England wants to hear feedback on health and social care from everyone. Tell them about your care to make sure services work better for us all. -
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Our 2021-2022 Annual Report looks at the work that we completed last year whilst still being limited by the new ways of working. Despite the year's challenges we continue to work relentlessly to ensure the public's voice was heard. -
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This Code of Behaviour must be used in conjunction with CTCIC’s Safeguarding Policies and Procedures. -
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During their employment, in the case of directors, board members, staff, or in their capacity of volunteers, persons will most certainly have access to or have sight of documents and other information that is of a confidential nature. -
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This policy covers Connected Together CIC and all its contracts and managed organisations. -
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This policy supports the legal requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the UK’s interpretation of the European GDPR), which places certain obligations on CTCIC. -
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Connected Together Community Interest Company (CTCIC) Board has overall responsibility for volunteers within CTCIC, its organisations, contracts, and subsidiaries, -
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Connected Together CIC is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our employees and volunteers and eliminating unlawful discrimination. -
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This policy is intended to provide help and support to Connected Together volunteers who feel that they have been denied the right to be treated with dignity and respect