Spotlight on: Indian Heritage Cultural Society - Crawley

The event had a drop-in format with over 50 people attending during the day.

There was really positive feedback from the event including:

'It was fantastic to watch young and older ladies dancing in a traditional way while others joined in by clapping along.'
'Lovely music and food thoroughly enjoyed it.'
'Very welcoming.'
'Singing and food lovely.'
'It was a great musical event with good old Bollywood songs.'
'Gets people out of their houses.'
'Everyone very welcoming.'

Our Community Partnership Co-ordinator attended the event and captured the experiences and views from those who attended, about health and social care provision. The stories and views that were shared covered a range of topics.

The key topics people chose to speak about were:

• Difficulties in accessing GP appointments
• Unclear communication by health care professionals
• Problems changes to medication packaging can have
• Transport issues to access services

The insight from each person was collated and anonymised and forms part of the insight and evidence that Healthwatch gather to identify common themes around what works and doesn’t work for local people.