1. News -

    Five people and groups have been shortlisted for a national award that celebrates local people who, through their dedication, have helped improve health and care for their community.
  2. Advice and Information -

    People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register.
  3. Advice and Information -

    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.
  4. Advice and Information -

    Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments.
  5. Report -

    This report details the experiences of the practice's patients and visitors as shared with us during our visit in September 2017 and our authorised representatives' observations.
  6. Report -

    Sussex Healthwatch were commissioned to hear the views of under-represented communities in Sussex on how they would like 111 and out-of-hours services to be delivered going forward. This report shows what local people said.
  7. Report -

    This report summarises observations from our  people with lived experience team, which are informing the future development of Pathfinder West Sussex's approach to involving local people and communities.
  8. Report -

    This report details what patients and visitors told us about their experience at Bognor War Memorial Hospital and what we observed during our visit on 25 January 2018.
  9. Report -

    We spent five weeks in Pulborough, Petworth and Midhurst in November/December 2017 talking to local residents about their views and experiences accessing health and care services. Here's what we found...
  10. Report -

    This is the follow-up report produced by local Healthwatch across Sussex.
  11. Report -

    Follow on report showing what has changed since we last reviewed.
  12. Report -

    Here is the Executive Summary report of the One Year On Complaints Information on West Sussex GP Websites
  13. Report -

    As last year, we've kept our Annual Report to just 4-pages of insight. We're proud to showcase the busy year we've had and to detail how this is support the improve in local health and care services.
  14. Report -

    Here is our de-brief summary of our PLACE (Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment) for 2018.
  15. Report -

    We have come together, to understand what local people, with assessed support and care needs experience, following delivery changes to the way peoples’ contribution towards the cost of their care is worked out.
  16. Report -

    Royal College of General Practitioners Report
  17. Report -

    Healthwatch attended a recent Friendship Tea and took the opportunity to speak with some of the younger and older people about what health and care means for them
  18. Report -

    Reporting on the experiences shared by local people in West Sussex. January – March 2018
  19. Report -

    This briefing sets out what we are intending to do to follow-up on the previous report, looking at Adult Safeguarding in West Sussex, published in October 2016.
  20. Report -

    Reporting on the experiences shared by local people in West Sussex
    July - September 2018
  21. Report -

    Through our recent engagement we are hearing peoples' struggles to get information, advice and support to help them with their incontinence.  This led us to look at the issue more closely and report on our findings.
  22. Report -

    This briefing shares the themes and information and advice around High Street and Community Specialist Dental Services, as part of the engagement for recommissioning these services.
  23. Report -

    Healthwatch Feedback/Observations at the Minimum Income Guarantee Roundtable Consultation held at Aldingbourne Centre on 26 November 2018
  24. Report -

    We are pleased to see that West Sussex County Council are consulting on its draft vision and strategy for Adult Social Care from next year, and for two further years. Here is our formal feedback.
  25. Report -

    From discussions with local people it was clear many were unfamiliar with pharmacies having ‘consulting rooms’. We were keen to raise awareness of this facility and to support staff and the people who use community pharmacy services.
  26. Report -

    A review of our insight and evidence
    October - December 2018
  27. Report -

    We visited Burgess Hill throughout October and November 2018 to see what locals thought of their health and social care services.
  28. Report -

    Information on how you can get hold of personal medical records from West Sussex hospitals
  29. Report -

    This reports on our Enter and View work carried on 3 May 2019
  30. News -

    Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded Good by the CQC for the second time. 
  31. News -

    Over 500,000 more patients in Sussex will soon benefit from having a Clinical Pharmacist at their GP, who can give expert advice on routine medication and treatment.
  32. News -

    Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded Good by CQC, with an Outstanding for Caring.
  33. News -

    The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have just published a report showing most woman are having a positive experience in their maternity care and treatment within the NHS, according to a survey of more than 18,000 people in England.
  34. News -

    There has been national news coverage over the last few day about patient referrals for NHS treatment and Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has been named as running a scheme to reduce referrals from GP practices.
  35. News -

    Did you know that around 70% of people who visit their GP have an underlining issue which isn't necessarily medical?
  36. News -

    Frances Russell, Healthwatch West Sussex Chair, is talking on air on BBC Radio Sussex at 7.05am tomorrow (Thursday 29) in response to media headlines over local NHS rationing of services (which ran in West Sussex County Times).
  37. News -

    Fitzalan Medical Group share the disappointing news that today the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has placed their surgeries in Littlehampton into special measures.
  38. Advice and Information -

    This animation explains how organisations and sectors across West Sussex can use the West Sussex Wellbeing and Resilience Framework to transform the lives of residents.
  39. News -

    We spent five weeks in Pulborough, Petworth and Midhurst in November/December 2017 talking to local residents about their views and experiences accessing health and care services.
  40. News -

    You may have heard yesterday that up to 270 women in England may have died because they did not receive invitations to a final routine breast cancer screening, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.
  41. News -

    Ian Trenholm has been appointed as CQC’s new Chief Executive and will take over the role from Sir David Behan when he leaves in July.
  42. News -

    The Care Quality Commission have released a report that shows how some of England’s worst services have turned themselves around.
  43. News -

    The CQC (Care Quality Commission) have just published the results from the 2017 Adult Inpatients survey, which over 70,000 people answered.
  44. News -

    The West Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) is holding its next meeting in public in Littlehampton
  45. News -

    If you spot blood in your pee, even if it's 'only the once', go and see your doctor.
  46. News -

    Morrisons stores have announced they will be having a 'Quiet Hour' every Saturday from 9am-10am. The 'quiet hour' will mean 439 UK stores will dim lights, turn music off, avoid using the tannoy and turn check-out beeps down.
  47. News -

    Local organisations came together to understand and report what local people, with assessed support and care needs, experience following changes to the way peoples’ contribution towards the cost of their care is calculated.