News and reports

During the past year, we have continued to involve communities in our work, tackled key health and social care issues and kept our focus on making care fairer.

Announcing our next AGM, where we will be feeding back on our research programme and hearing a key note speech from Sarah Wren, Chief Executive at HILS on ‘Opportunities and challenges for the VCFSE sector working with the NHS and social care’.

Read more about our June 2024 Board meeting in public. This time our Board members discussed our latest contract monitoring return and recent findings from our signposting service.

An Extraordinary General Meeting was held earlier this month to elect Trustees to serve on the Healthwatch Hertfordshire Board. During the meeting, which was held on 2nd May 2024, five new candidates were elected.

Work to achieve our ambition of making research more inclusive, accessible and diverse continues, with completion of a second phase of work engaging with local communities about their views on NHS research.

Read more about our Extraordinary General Meeting, where the company voted to elect new members of the Board of Trustees.

Two Hertfordshire NHS Trusts have earned Veteran Aware accreditation, recognising their expertise in addressing the needs of the Armed Forces Community when providing community-based healthcare services.

Healthwatch Hertfordshire has been commended nationally for its Cost of Living research, which led to local mental health services teaming up with money advice specialists to help those struggling both financially and emotionally.

Since it was launched in September 2021, the Community Assembly for the East and North Herts Health and Care Partnership has grown from strength to strength. Chaired by Healthwatch Hertfordshire, the Assembly has explored issues of concern and heard about some exciting new projects aimed at improving patient experience.

A local project aimed at improving detection and management of Atrial Fibrillation in ethnically diverse communities has provided valuable insights into work that can be done to prevent heart disease.

CLCH is looking for Patient Representatives to help improve services, develop new ideas, better understand diverse health needs and focus on what matters most to patients.

We are working with the NHS to ensure children and young people receive the orthodontic care and treatment they need. If you have a child using NHS orthodontic services, we want to hear from you.