1. Middlesbrough Local Offer

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    Find out about the Local Offer in Middlesbrough, and how it can support young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

  2. NHS Long Term Plan Focus Group: Special Education Needs & Disabilities

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    We established links with two different community groups that engage with parents and carers of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) children and young people, and invited them to attend focus groups.

  3. Response to Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting Autistic People Consultation

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    A new Autism Core Capabilities Framework is being developed to provide workforce training programmes aimed at improving the lives of children, young people and adults with autism.

  4. NHS Long Term Plan Focus Group: Special Education Needs & Disabilities - Version 2

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    The following report has been shared at the South Tees Health and Wellbeing Executive and Live Well Board. We have produced a second version taking into account feedback from relevant members which have been highlighted in pink throughout the report.

  5. A Conversation About ‘Wellbeing’ Adults with Learning Disabilities

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    We were asked by an integrated care partnership to host a focus group with adults with learning disabilities in Middlesbrough. We wanted to find out the most important things that contribute to their overall wellbeing.

  6. A Parent Carer Perspective - Replacing the Autism Pathway

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    The Children's Autism Pathway is to be replaced from 1 April 2021. The new pathway is for children and young people aged 5-18 years old across South Tees.

  7. Joint Board and Champions Meeting

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    The Healthwatch Board and Community Champions come together for collaborative meeting.

  8. Visiting our Community Champion at Senses Wellbeing Centre

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    Recently we visited Community Champion Karen Winspear, a Director of Senses Wellbeing Centre in Skelton.

  9. Tees Valley Buddies report - Neurodiverse families and their mental health

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    Tees Valley Buddies is a neuro diverse self-advocacy and peer support charity ran by Neurodiverse people for Neurodiverse people!

  10. Community Champion Vlog - Episode 1

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    In the first of our Community Champion Vlogs, Vicky Jackson our Volunteer and Engagement Officer speaks to Thomas Henley.

  11. Healthwatch South Tees STAR Awards 2023

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

  12. Chelle - CEO Tees Valley Buddies

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    Tees Valley Buddies are passionate about building a neurodivergent community to allow for Autistic, ADHD and other neurodivergent people across tees valley to be able to have a sense of belonging and authentically be themselves.

  13. Healthwatch South Tees STAR Awards 2024

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    We had a record amount of nominations this year. See below for details of each nomination #HWSTSTARS

  14. Lorna Routledge - Active Forests Coordinator for Guisborough Forest

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    Lorna is the Active Forests Coordinator for Guisborough Forest which is one of four Forestry England sites across the UK that are leading green social prescribing projects.

  15. Registering with your GP: understanding your rights

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    People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register.

  16. Access to GP Services

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    We received intelligence through engagement activities and our Information & Signposting service that people were experiencing difficulties in making appointments at their GP surgeries.

  17. Cancer Screening Uptake in Middlesbrough

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    We aimed to gather the views of local people who had accessed screening services and those who had not in order to determine what was working well and what could be improved in the current provision.

  18. Discharge and Medication Supply at The James Cook University Hospital

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    The aim of this investigation was to gather views and experiences from patients who had recently been admitted to The James Cook University Hospital to determine if long waiting times for medication supply was resulting in delays in discharge.

  19. A Focus on Hearing Loss

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    During August 2017 we received information from Middlesbrough Deaf Centre, highlighting issues affecting some of their service users in accessing various health and social care services.

  20. Have Your Say on How Doctors Collect Patient Feedback

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    The General Medical Council would like to get your thoughts on proposed changes to how doctors collect and reflect on patient feedback.

  21. How can a GP Practice raise awareness of caring roles?

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    This case study explores how a local GP Practice decided to be more proactive in identifying people on their register who were responsible for caring for others, because many of them don't identify as a carer.

  22. GP Access Cards

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    Previously known as My Right to Healthcare, GP Access cards allow people who aren't registered with a GP practice, have no fixed address or identification to communicate their right to healthcare.

  23. Experiences of GP access, Ongoing Treatments and Wellbeing Throughout the Pandemic

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    In October 2020 we launched our GPs, Ongoing Treatments and Wellbeing survey.

  24. Rachel Shafto - Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)

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    Facilitating social groups and informative talks for the Deaf community.

  25. What is a Community Champion?

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    Community Champions are at the heart of Healthwatch - read on to find out why!

  26. New Radio Adverts From CVFM

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    Recently we have been working with Middlesbrough based radio station, Community Voice FM.

  27. Jane Cousins - Primary Care Network (PCN) Social Prescriber Team Leader

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    Delivering social prescribing for the residents of Redcar costal (Via GP referral)

  28. Handy contacts over the Festive period

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    Healthwatch South Tees is closed over the Christmas period between Friday 22 December 2023 and Tuesday 2 January 2024.

  29. Reasonable Adjustments in GP Practices - Your Views

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    Healthwatch South Tees has made it a priority to collaborate with primary care and general practice (GP’s), to reduce barriers to access GPs for those requiring reasonable adjustments.

  30. Your Care, Your Way

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    Healthwatch England have recently devised the 'Your Care, Your Way' campaign to highlight the importance of accessible information within health and social care.