1. Health Advisory Board members wanted

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    Do you want to contribute to maintaining the standards of excellence in local health and social care? Apply to become a Healthwatch Sandwell Health Advisory Board Member.

  2. Accessibility: Are health and social care services meeting information and communication needs?

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    NHS health and social care services care are legally required to follow the Accessible Information Standard 2016. This includes doctors, dentists, hospitals, pharmacies and social workers. The Standard sets out a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of patients, service users, carers and parents with a disability, impairment or sensory loss. Healthwatch Sandwell have explored with people with disabilities, sensory loss, or impairments
    whether health and social care services are meeting their information and communication needs as required under the Accessible Information Standard 2016.

  3. Easy read Accessibility: Are health and social care services meeting information and communication needs?

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    Healthwatch Sandwell listen to what people say about their health and care services.
    We tell health and care services what people said and how they can make things better.

  4. Screen reader. ​Accessibility: ​ ​Are health and social care services meeting information and communication needs?

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    NHS health and social care services care are legally required to follow the Accessible Information Standard 2016. This includes doctors, dentists, hospitals, pharmacies and social workers.

    The Standard sets out a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of patients, service users, carers and parents with a disability, impairment or sensory loss.

    Healthwatch Sandwell have explored with people with disabilities, sensory loss, or impairments whether health and social care services are meeting their information and communication needs as required under the Accessible Information Standard 2016.

  5. Healthwatch Sandwell Annual Report 2022-2023

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    Healthwatch Sandwell is your local health and social care champion. We make sure NHS leaders and decision makers hear your voice and use your feedback to improve care. We can also help you to find reliable and trustworthy information and advice.

    Over the past year we have published 22 reports, engaged with 2,043 people and visited six towns of Sandwell delivering our Guided By You workshops.

  6. August Insight Report

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    Take a look at our August Insight Report to see what patients are telling us about services in Sandwell.

  7. September Insights 2023

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    Healthwatch Sandwell Insight Report - September 2023

    Take a look at what the team have been doing during September!

  8. Healthwatch Sandwell Guided By You Report 2023

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    You might remember our Guided By You tour where we held six workshops in six Towns around Sandwell. We visited each Town and spoke to local people about their priorities. We have collated the comments and suggestions from people in each town, this information is now ready in our Guided By You report which is not live!

    Want to see what people in your local area are saying? Use the download button below to see what people are saying in your area.

  9. Health Advisory Board Meeting July 2023

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    Information for our Health Advisory Board Meeting to be held 4th July 2023.