News and reports

Read more about the August 2021 Board meeting in public. This time our Board Members discussed the recruitment efforts and the figures from our recent contract monitoring return to commissioners.

The UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been the most significant public health exercise in recent history. While the rollout has been an incredible achievement, we wanted to understand people's motivations to either receive or refuse the vaccine.

Read about our efforts during the past year to ensure the patient voice was heard amid the Covid-19 pandemic and improvements made to Hertfordshire services as a result.

Read more about our 2021 AGM, where the members approved the accounts, we took a moment of pause to reflect on the past year - and we heard from guest speaker Jim McManus, Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire.

Read more about our May 2021 General and Board meeting in public. Our Board members re-elected a Trustee who had served their three year term of office and heard about our priorities for the year ahead.

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

What’s it like having a Physiotherapy assessment on the telephone and what do patients think of the physiotherapy service provided by Connect Health in West Hertfordshire? Read our report to find out what they said.

What do dental practices need to do to make them accessible for their patients?

Read more about our February 2021 Board meeting in public. Our Board members discussed the Trustee Term of Office and our health and social care committee representation.

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.

Read more about our November 2020 Board meeting in public. Our Board members reviewed and signed off a new Decision Making Procedure and agreed the dates of their public Board meetings taking place in 2021.

This is the second strategy for Healthwatch Hertfordshire enabling us to look back to our beginnings in 2013 and plan for our future from 2020 onwards.