News and reports

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.

Our country’s health and care services face big challenges. We are living longer, but a growing number of people need help with long-term health conditions, adding pressures to services.

‘Young Minds‘ is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the well being and mental health of children and young people.

People turned up in their masses at events across North Somerset to help celebrate a national awareness campaign, which brings people together by getting them to talk about their mental health, called ‘Time To Talk‘ day.

Specialised Commissioning (South) are looking to recruit two Patient & Public Voice Expert Advisers for the following groups:

Senior Management Team (SMT)/Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group (SCOG)
Clinical Delivery Group
Quality Committee