News and reports

We asked the public how they would spend the government's £20 million a year investment into the NHS over the next 10 years to improve services locally #WhatWouldYouDo?

During 2018/2019 our work included a year-long study of emotional health and wellbeing in the city of Bristol and we worked with 300 medical students looking at the 3Ds - disability, disadvantage and discrimination.

Healthwatch Bristol have a standard complaints procedure that you can follow if you wish to raise any concern or complaint about us. The policy details who to contact and outlines how you can expect us investigate your complaint.

Here is the Healthwatch Bristol Privacy Policy which explains our procedure in handling data when you fill in our feedback forms or visit our website.

Here is our guide to Enter and View; Healthwatch Bristol's powers to access health and care services

Our advisory group decided that we should run a survey to determine the level of awareness that the general public has of the changes that are happening within GP services.

The aim of this year-long project was to find out which mental health services in Bristol people
had used in the 12 months, how beneficial they were to them, what works well, and what could
be improved.

Our stop smoking client consultation report where we asked women why they struggled to stop smoking during pregnancy in Bristol and North Somerset. What did they think about services to help them and how did they work?

Healthwatch Bristol worked in partnership with Dhek Bhal in organising focus group workshops on emotional health and wellbeing in the South Asian community in February 2018.

In March 2018 we awarded Off The Record a portion of our Community Pot Fund to finance a micro project called The Natural Health Service.

Members of the Bristol Black and Minority Ethnic Community (BAME) came together on Saturday 26 May 2018 for a day of learning about prostate cancer.

Our quarterly report from October - December 2018 Healthwatch Bristol - our work with
the BAME community on prostate
cancer awareness
with Errol Campbell was among the highlights.