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Your Voice matters – read about the work of your Hertfordshire health and care champion in our Annual Report 2021/22

Read about our work during the past year to ensure the patient voice is heard as we continue to have a direct impact on the transformation and development of health and care services across Hertfordshire.

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Putting the voices of children and families first

By putting their voices at the centre of our work, we ensured children and families living in Stevenage could share their wants and needs for local health and wellbeing.

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Sharing your experiences has made healthcare better for people with a learning disability

Local healthcare leaders have made further improvements to Annual Health Checks, in response to our research investigating the experiences of the learning disability community.

21 October 2021

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What are people telling us about the COVID-19 vaccines?

Our report detailing what people told us about the COVID-19 vaccines has been published and contains the views of more than 1,800 Hertfordshire residents. Find out what people told us.

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Improving Healthcare Access for Veterans

We engaged with the veteran community in Hertfordshire to find out their experiences of accessing healthcare.

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Digital Exclusion Case Studies: Covid-19 Patient Experience

We spoke to people who are digitally excluded to find out their reasons for not being online, and how this has affected their experiences during the coronavirus pandemic.

10 December 2020

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Healthwatch Hertfordshire welcomes new NHS structure

Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) today becomes a statutory body, creating new opportunities to feed people’s views into the planning and running of local services – especially the voices of those not being heard now.

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Armed Forces Day 2022 - How are services supporting our local veterans?

Armed Forces Day on Saturday 25th gives us an opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved in the last year to improve access to healthcare for local veterans.

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What is Monkeypox?

As you will have heard in the news, monkeypox is a rare viral infection and the risk to the UK population is low.

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Healthwatch Board Annual General Meeting - 19th July 2022

Join us for our next AGM where we will be: presenting on key messages...

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Healthwatch Board Meeting in Public - 24th May 2022

Read more about our May 2022 Board meeting in public. This time our...

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Going digital: What children and young people with learning disabilities want from a digital health app.

Children and young people with learning disabilities tested the...

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Information Governance Policy

This document provides an overview of Healthwatch Hertfordshire'...