News and reports

Following an enter and view carried out by authorised volunteers from Healthwatch North Somerset, the report has now been published

HWNS publishes its report on Brockway Medical Centre following an enter and view from a number of trained staff and volunteers

This report reminds us of the significant disadvantages faced by many people with severe mental illnesses (SMI) – with difficulties in gaining and keeping employment, in maintaining stable relationships and receiving a decent income.

Our latest Enter and view report is now available to download and read, It contains all our findings from our visit on 20th March and our subsequent recommendations to the practice.

Healthwatch North Somerset have carried out an Enter and View at the Backwell Surgery. We have now published the report which anyone can read below

The South West Clinical Senate workforce sustainability recommendations are being fed into the Health Education England consultation "Facing facts, shaping the future" which runs until 23rd March 2018

Healthwatch North Somerset carried out an Enter and View at Milton Surgery. We have now published out report, detailing all our findings, including observations, feedback from staff and patients and recommendations to improve the service

You are warmly invited to our next ‘Public Meeting’ which is taking place on Tuesday 10th April 2018 in the ‘Community Hall’ at the For All Healthy Living Centre, 68 Lonsdale Ave, Weston-super-Mare BS23 3SJ.

North Somerset Council is running a consultation on the proposed changes to the future of Adult Social Care. This will be a fundamentally different way of working with carers and others.

Looking at the future of health and social care and trying to plan ahead. The NHS is running out of money and all of us are living longer meaning the NHS won't cope in thirty years time.

Published in October 2017, the Healthy Weston vision sets out how the North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wants to organise and deliver current services as effectively and efficiently as possible.

A new Joseph Rowntree Foundation study, reflects the reality for one family trying to get by on a low income. One in five people in the UK are in poverty, without the resources to meet their minimum needs.