News and reports

Every year more than 385,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer and there are currently at least 3 million people living with cancer across the UK.

Celebrating those who have gone above and beyond in health and social care! See below for all those nominated, shortlisted and winners from each category.

Deep-dive analysis of experiences of 2,693 new mothers and birthing parents shows that six-week postnatal checks – required of GPs in England - are failing many new mothers. We call for action.

On Wednesday 8th March 2023, 14 local Healthwatch came together to celebrate its 10th birthday, they work collectively across the North East and North Cumbria region to add value and service users voices to the changing health and care landscape.

A 72-hour walkout by junior doctors across England next week looks set to impact patient services more widely than previous health staff strikes.

The Government has confirmed that NHS prescription charges will go up next month.
Last April, the charges were frozen at 2021 levels.

Women across the country to benefit from better access to care for essential services for menstrual problems, contraception, pelvic pain and menopause care.

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

I create groups that can have a direct impact on improving the health and well-being of our community.

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.