Karen’s story: life after limb loss
Our office volunteer, Karen, writes about her experiences of undergoing an amputation five years ago and the challenges she has faced as a wheelchair user living in Northumberland. Issues with […]
Communication and Marketing Officer at Healthwatch Northumberland. We listen to your views and experiences of health and social care and share them with the commissoners and providers. We want users of care to be involved in decisions that affect them wherever possible. We'll also give you health information, locally and nationally, let you know what events and developments are happening in your area, and we can also help you find information you need about services with our signposting service.
Our office volunteer, Karen, writes about her experiences of undergoing an amputation five years ago and the challenges she has faced as a wheelchair user living in Northumberland. Issues with […]
Health and social care feedback August 2024 We heard from 148 this month. Hospitals and GP services were the services we heard the most about. The quality of care or […]
The services you gave us feedback about the most this month were hospitals and GP services. Access to hospitals was the main concern, specifically the length of time patients had […]
Up to 1.5 million working-age disabled people in England could need social care support but are not accessing it. This means they are likely to be missing out on help […]
Between January and June 2024, we received feedback from 417 individuals from talking to people at face-to-face events, telephone calls, emails, our website, social media and other sources. This is […]
GP surgeries have changed the way they work to meet patient needs and increased demand. There is now a wider range of medical staff at surgeries and different ways to […]
Growing Healthy: Hearing people’s experiences of health visiting services Last year we started to hear a small increase in concerns from local families and those supporting them about health visiting […]
The NHS plans to triple the number of Physician Associates it employs. But how much do patients know about this role, and how can their role be safely expanded? In […]
This month we continued to hear about communication issues and poor quality of care at hospitals in the region. There were also several positive comments about the quality of care […]
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