News and reports

Our fab staff and wonderful volunteers had a great day at the Sovereign Shopping Centre yesterday.

Working with older people, their families and care experts, the charity Independent Age has developed a set of quality indicators which a local Healthwatch in Camden helped test during their visits to local care homes.

Almost 60 per cent of construction workers would be happy to slap sun cream on a building site buddy, a survey suggests. When asked about attitudes to sun protection, 357 out of 625 Jewson customers said they would help their workmate apply sun cream

A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect.

Today sees the launch of #ItStartsWithYou. This campaign is an opportunity to celebrate the people who help make health and social care services better by speaking up about their experiences.

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

The Queen’s Speech, which announces the legislative programme for the Government over the next two years, happened yesterday.

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

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its report following an inspection of Weston General Hospital in February and March 2017.

The charity ‘Action on Hearing Loss’ have developed information to help you understand the level of service your GP practice should offer you and how you can positively challenge a GP practice that isn’t yet fully accessible.

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.