News and reports

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

A poll of 1,504 working-age disabled adults found that 28% have never accessed social care or other support despite potentially being eligible. Healthwatch England calls for a fully funded, long-term plan to reform social care.

NHS England has published their annual GP Patient Survey. Healthwatch England responds to this year's GP Patient Survey.

As part of our commitment to continued improvement, each year we review our performance and ask stakeholders to feed back to us on what we are doing well and areas for improvement.

We are delighted to share ‘The value of listening’, our Annual Report for 2023-24.

It highlights how we have listened to the voices of the public, patients and partners and used people’s feedback, experiences and preferences to help shape health and social care in West Sussex, and across Sussex.

World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

The survey aim was to find out the current needs, issues of concern, the barriers local people have in accessing services, to understand what provision and services currently help to support local people and their families emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing.

In May 2024, Healthwatch in Sussex sought experiences of being seen by a Physician's Associate.

One in four people will have a mental health problem of some kind every year in England. You're not alone, and West Sussex Talking Therapies are here to help.

The Community HIV Specialist Service (CHIVSS) offers community nursing and some psychological therapies to people living with HIV, aged 18 and over, in Brighton & Hove and West Sussex.

CLIO3 stands for Council and Local Information Online which is an online, easy to use database commissioned, populated and updated by West Sussex Library Service.

The new Pharmacy First scheme enables your local pharmacy to treat some common conditions with prescription-only medicines, without you visiting your GP. Find out everything you need to know.