News and reports

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.

To mark the start of 2019, Healthwatch England is today publishing our annual network priorities list – setting out the key health and care topics our local teams will be working on over the year ahead.

Dr Knut Schroeder, a Bristol-based GP, was nominated by Healthwatch Bristol for this year’s #NHS70 award at the Healthwatch England Conference.

Errol Campbell from the Friends of Caswell Thompson, local Bristol hero, was nominated by Healthwatch Bristol for this year’s #ItStartsWithYou award at the Healthwatch England Conference.

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.

Local charity Carers Support Centre has produced some short films in different community languages to encourage minority ethnic carers to seek support.

Sir Robert Francis QC has been appointed today as the new Chair of Healthwatch England, the independent champion for people who use health and social care.

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.

Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed.

In November 2018 Healthwatch Bristol worked collaboratively with the University of Bristol on their 3D project, teaching first year medical students about f diversity, discrimination and disadvantage.

This report from December 2018 provides a summary of ongoing issues that carers in Bristol and South Gloucestershire have raised with Carers Support Centre (CSC) around their experiences of hospital admission and discharge planning.

The purpose of this enter and view was a revisit following the previous
Healthwatch visit on Monday 24 October 2016, to observe if our
recommendations from the report had been implemented. Also to gather feedback
from residents and their families.