News and reports

Concerns about flexibility of visiting times in care homes and lack of clarity about restrictions led us to explore what information was available on 135 of our Hertfordshire care home websites.

In our latest report, Making Local Healthcare Equal: Healthcare Concerns in Black and Asian Communities, residents shared powerful stories with us, leading to our NHS taking action in tackling ethnic health inequalities.

Working in partnership with the University of Cambridge we explored what people think about the drive to bring together different types of health data to inform care, public health and research.

Read more about our August 2022 Board meeting in public. This time our Board members will be discussing the recently established Integrated Care Board and our role within the restructured health & care system.

Thanks to new and ongoing partnerships with Black and Asian community leaders over the past year, we can share important learning on how services can work to better engage with Black and Asian communities to tackle ethnic health inequalities.

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.

Read more about our AGM where we: presented on key messages from our major research project "Making Local Healthcare Equal for All", heard from a local service leader on health & care integration, and reviewed the annual accounts.

Read more about our May 2022 Board meeting in public. This time our Board members discussed upcoming changes to the health & care system, changes at Healthwatch England, and our latest contract monitoring return.

Children and young people with learning disabilities tested the digital health app 'Hear Me Now' to see if and how it could help them better manage their health. This is what they told us.

Read more about our first Board meeting in public for 2022. This time our Board members discussed the latest contract monitoring submission, relocation of our offices, and heard an update on the local Integrated Plan Scrutiny.

Read more about our final Board Meeting in Public for 2021; this time the Board welcomed our newly elected Trustees to their first meeting, and discussed data from our latest contract monitoring submission.

Join us for our Extraordinary General Meeting, where the company will be voting to elect and re-elect those Members of the Board of Trustees who are standing.