1. Introduction to the event

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    Lisa Bosomworth - Project Lead opened the event and set out how the evening would go. It was an emotional and heartfelt speech by Lisa as she opened up about her own menopause experience.

  2. Menopause Information - Dr Wright

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    Dr Angela Wright - GP, menopause specialist and Clinical Sexologist

  3. Alison Cullen, A.Vogel

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    Alison is a Nutritional Practitioner and Educational Manager for A. Vogel

  4. Sustain Nutrition

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    Sustain Nutrition work with ladies to help them regain control and lose weight effectively during menopause.

  5. Stalls

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    To help people find out the range of support available within South Tees we invited a diverse range of stall holders, each passionate about supporting women through menopause.

  6. Closing comments

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    A brief video of people's thoughts at the end of the event

  7. Women's Health Report

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    This report highlights all of the work we have carried out so far.

    It includes feedback from our menopause event, responses from consultation surveys and identifies improvements to support services that are required locally which would improve experiences.

  8. GP Resource Evaluation

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    In August 2023 we produced our GP Resource in collaboration with a range of professionals in response to the most common questions we heard from local people. We also wanted to raise awareness of the changes that are now in place in GP practice teams, to help people understand how to make the most of the range of options available from this service.

    Following the launch, we received many positive comments from health care professionals. We wanted to find out if our GP resource was helpful to local people as well as professionals. With this purpose, we carried out a number of engagement activities in order to collect evidence of the impact of the resource on local people.

  9. Growing Older Planning Ahead

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    Tees Valley Healthwatch Network worked in partnership with North East Commissioning Support on behalf of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) with the aim of delivering a local review in response to the national requirement to improve the planning process for families, who care for an adult with a learning disability, when they can no longer support their family member to stay at home.

    The particular focus of this project is to improve support for families, carers, and older people with learning disability (aged 40+ to reflect the early onset of chronic health conditions such as dementia) by producing effective recommendations.

    We have produced a South Tees report of our findings from our engagement with adults with a learning disability, their carers and professionals.

    The Tees Valley Combined Report can also be found below.