News and reports

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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.

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.

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.

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.