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Plan for better, fairer access to high quality special educational needs and disabilities support.

In a long-awaited move, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced HRT costs will be capped at around £20 a year through a new hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescription prepayment certificate (PPC) being launched on 1 April 23

Lisa Bosomworth (Project Lead) for Healthwatch Middlesbrough chats with Louise Ansari (National Director) at Healthwatch England

As part of Middlesbrough Councils review activity of the Specialist Drug and Alcohol prescribing services, they approached Healthwatch Middlesbrough to carry out service user engagement to inform this process.

Information on Perimenopause and Menopause

With the NHS under extra pressure this winter, we need to hear your experiences of care to help services understand what is working and spot issues affecting support for you and your loved ones.

The Government has updated its briefing pack to help organisations like Healthwatch respond to public queries about NHS industrial action.

We had a record amount of nominations this year. See below for a brief description of each nomination #HWSTSTARS23

Information advice letter for parents on Strep A written in in Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Gujarati, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Ukrainian and Urdu.

In this episode, Vicky Jackson our Volunteer and Engagement Officer speaks to Kerri Brems from ARCH Teesside.

In our latest Vlog Community Champion Vlogs, Vicky Jackson our Volunteer and Engagement Officer speaks to Caroline Nakachwa who is a Food Security Officer for Together Middlesbrough & Cleveland

Whether you would like to register with a GP, or to change practice it is not as difficult as you might think. We have lots of helpful advice and links: