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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
Report
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Meg Carter: Volunteer Interview
Meg is a Trustee on the Healthwatch Hertfordshire Board.
25 November 2020
Blog
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Feeling Good Week 2021 – Get Involved!
Feeling Good Week is a Hertfordshire-wide event that encourages schools and the wider community to promote children and young people’s emotional wellbeing.
11 November 2020
News
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Healthwatch Board Meeting in Public - 17th November 2020
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.
10 November 2020
Report
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Don’t Rely on GP Websites for Cancer Information…Speak to your GP
With the help of our volunteers we checked 103 local GP websites, and found that while most offered advice for patients about cancer, the quantity and quality of that advice was not always very good.
10 November 2020
News
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Looking Ahead: Our Strategy 2020 - 2024
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.
4 November 2020
Report
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GP Website Audit – Finding information during COVID-19
Are GP websites providing up to date information on COVID-19 and is there accessible and available advice for cancer patients, particularly at a time when it is likely that there would be an increase in patients accessing websites for information?
4 November 2020
Report
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Data Sharing and Health – Get Involved!
We are working with the University of Cambridge, Public Health England and other local Healthwatch across the East of England to find out what people think about using health data to inform care, public health and research.
27 October 2020
News
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Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Review – Engagement Events
We need your help to plan the future of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre services.
16 October 2020
News
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Covid-19 Patient Experiences – What can Hertfordshire learn?
During lockdown, we have celebrated the NHS and others who have continued to put their own health at risk to deliver what services they can. However, there have been challenges and concerns raised about how patients have been affected.
8 October 2020
News
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Covid-19 Patient Experiences – What can Hertfordshire learn?
Our report on people's experiences of health, social care and community support during the pandemic is published today. It contains the views of more than 660 Hertfordshire residents. Find out what people told us.
1 October 2020
Report
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Herts County Council: Direct Payments Survey
It’s survey time!
7 September 2020
News