News and reports

#ItStartsWithYou campaign launches in Hertfordshire with three stories. Healthwatch Hertfordshire today launches a campaign to encourage people across the country to share their experiences to help make health and care better for their community.

Read more about our AGM where the members approve the accounts and elect the trustees new to the Board, or conduct a re-election where a member’s term has reached three years.

Read more about our May 2018 Board meeting in public.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital) in Harlow serves our East Herts residents. Last October they invited our Enter and View team into the hospital to carry out a visit and this year they invited us back to see how the environment has changed.

The reports from 6 dental practices we visited using our legal power to Enter and View.

This Privacy Statement outlines our data processing practices when we are carrying out our role as the local independent champion for people who use health and social care services.

Our friends at the East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) are urging secondary schools to sign up to a lifesaving lesson this autumn.

It’s that time of year again: National Volunteers Week. Organisations across the UK will be taking this opportunity to thank the many volunteers that make such great contributions to their work.

A range of health services recently published their Annual Quality Accounts and these were scrutinised by the Health Scrutiny Committee on Thursday 15th March.

Read more about our April 2018 General Board meeting in public.

Following a phone call from a member of the public, Healthwatch Hertfordshire were surprised to learn that a GP surgery was denying the MMR vaccination to an adult who had not yet received it.

Herts County Council have asked us to share some great news! Smoking in Hertfordshire declines as e-cigarette popularity grows.