News and reports

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month 2025 runs throughout March and calls for widespread awareness of symptoms.

In February 2025, Healthwatch in Sussex sought experiences of accessing Neurodevelopmental Services in the last 12 months.

The Lullaby Trust safer sleep advice explains the steps you can take to keep your baby safer, reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

These reports details our key activities for the last quarter, including how we have engaged with the public, a summary of the feedback we have collected, our reports, recommendations and any outcomes or impact made.

The Phlebotomy Departments at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust have finalised arrangements for the introduction of an online appointment system to be used for patient blood tests called SwiftQueue.

Keeping you up to date with health and social care news, views, events and research.

If you have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and/or experience of psychosis, and you are aged 18 or over, you can benefit from a free annual health check at your GP practice once a year.

Great service provided from Walk in and Wait Chest X-Ray at Chichester hospital.

This Share for Better Care Week, take three minutes to share your experience of health and social care.

Learn ways to improve wellbeing and mental health through mindfulness practices with the Sussex Mindfulness Centre.

The visit we conducted was in response to a request from the senior management at St Catherine’s Hospice, who reached out to Healthwatch Surrey and Healthwatch West Sussex in 2024 to support their patient and public involvement activities.

In January 2025, Healthwatch in Sussex sought people’s experiences of NHS Dentistry. We previously asked questions about NHS Dentistry in a poll in January 2023 and wanted to see if there had been any changes over the past two years.