News and reports

Our report for the enter and view carried out at the community hospitals minor injuries unit is now available to the public. We entered and viewed the unit on 8th November 2017

Our Prioritisation panel meets every quarter. It is a group made up of directors, staff and volunteers who look at the public feedback to identify issues and decide about making any recommendations, visits or referrals.

We held our 2017 AGM on Tuesday 10th October at Weston College

Our Board meet during the year and the minutes of these meetings are made available for everyone to read. We hope that this helps you stay up to date about our plans and how we are spending our time helping the community.

Carers UK estimate that nationally 6.8 million people provide unpaid care for a disabled, seriously-ill or older person in the UK.

Healthwatch North Somerset publish their annual report for the 2016/17 year

On 20th June 2017 a team of trained and authorised enter and view volunteers and staff visited Silvertrees Care Home.

On 16th May 2017 we carried out an enter and view at Cherrywood House. Our team of trained volunteers and staff entered to get information and feedback from as many people as possible.

The state of care in NHS acute hospitals 2014 to 2016 presents findings from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) programme of NHS acute comprehensive inspections.

On the 8th February 2017 a team of trained staff and volunteers carried out an enter and view at Yatton Hall. This was to collect as much information possible on the service and make recommendations to help improve the service.

Healthwatch North Somerset collects information from the public about their experiences of local health and social care services.

We collect information from the public about their experiences of local health and social care services. This information is shared with health and social care service providers, local commissioners and all other relevant bodies.