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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents from 2015 below -
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Healthwatch Doncaster planned a Living Well Event that included presentations to impart information and knowledge which attendees can share with other partners -
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An event by Healthwatch Doncaster on Your Local Pharmacy & Keeping Safe Campaign -
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Healthwatch Doncaster planned the Pharmacy and Keeping Safe Event as part of its commitment to their strategic engagement priorities, cross boundary working and signposting. In addition the presentations aimed to impart information and knowledge -
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The Doncaster Keeping Safe Forum is a friendly, approachable community forum that anyone in Doncaster can join and meet every month. -
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The aim of the event were to raise awareness of Skin and Prostate Cancer and inform people what is happening locally around Prostate Cancer. -
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We have demonstrated in the last 12 months our ability to engage with the Doncaster public, through a series of events evidenced elsewhere in this report, gathering experiences and personal stories -
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Healthwatch Doncaster has links with strategic partners, both locally and nationally, to help influence and improve our health and social care services for our Borough -
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Your local Healthwatch wants to hear from children and young people who have something to say about the health and social care services that they use -
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Doncaster’s Keeping Safe Forum is a place for people and professionals to come together to share a mutual interest in keeping people safe and well in our local area -
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A risk reduction tool for people and their families living with dementia -
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On the 5th October 2015, Healthwatch Doncaster held its Annual Event at Doncaster Deaf Trust, Leger Way, Doncaster with 46 people attending on the day. Feedback from those attending was overall very encouraging
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We know from our conversations with the public that some patients report feeling rushed during appointments and struggling to make themselves heard. Here are some tips that could help you get the most out of visiting your GP. -
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‘Choose Well Doncaster’ is a handy and easy-to-use app for iPhone, which gives local people advice when it’s best to use health services and where they can find them -
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The Doncaster Keeping Safe Forum is a friendly, approachable community forum that anyone in Doncaster can join and meet every month. -
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Your local Patient Participation Group Network (PPGN) is supported by Healthwatch Doncaster and meets on a regular basis to discuss issues and concerns that affect people using GP services in Doncaster. -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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Engagement officer Sandie Hodson, alongside an enthusiastic team of Healthwatch volunteers, undertook nineteen care home visits between July – December 2016. -
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People living in Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield are being asked for their views on the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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Healthwatch Doncaster CIC welcomes feedback, whether positive or negative, from all stakeholders, partners and members of the public about the service it provides -
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Ambassadors bring forward the views of marginalised groups, then work with local services to make sure their comments are considered and taken on board by local health and social care service providers. -
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Conversations around health and social care can be discussed in a range of innovative ways, and that’s why Healthwatch Doncaster has launched its micro-grant scheme for local groups to apply for £500 to help engage, inform and influence -
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Healthwatch Sheffield report investigating the experience of disabled people accessing dentists in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group have issued a news release today confirming new NHS treatment guidelines introduced in Doncaster. They will come into effect later this month after a review of national and regional treatment guidelines -
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The Social Care and Health Community in Doncaster has come together to make a new plan to help people stay healthy and live in their own home for as long as possible. This is contained within the Doncaster Place Plan. -
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A local photo exhibition highlighting the daily lives of three families in Doncaster is set to tour the town’s Community libraries after Healthwatch Doncaster joined its crowdfunding drive earlier this year and provided match-funding for the project -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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Successful applicants of Healthwatch Doncaster’s micro-grants scheme will be celebrated at a ceremony event this Thursday at the Doncaster College for the Deaf. -
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Our Ambassadors represent local people in Doncaster who are part of seldom heard communities - people who struggle to have their voices heard. -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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Dig It are looking to promote a sustainable future for the community allotment in Denaby ensuring that the benefits of allotment gardening are recognised. -
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As national celebrations take place on the Great Get Together weekend starting on 16th June 2017, Healthwatch Doncaster will bat alongside the local cricket club to engage with communities to capture feedback and experiences of health and social care -
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Cast and Healthwatch Doncaster hosted a preshow coffee and tea roundtable chat for up to 27 people (15 attended pre show) to get to know service users and staff from local groups that have access to Doncaster Healthwatch services -
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As you may have read from our Twitter account this morning, Doncaster Healthwatch CIC has been awarded preferred bidder status for the Healthwatch contract in Doncaster. -
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The purpose of the session was to get people together and have a good time at a Vintage Tea Party where they can interact with others, play musical bingo, do a quiz and be served copious amounts of sandwiches, cakes and tea.
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As a result of discussions with Commissioners Working Together, Healthwatch Doncaster was asked to provide additional support by having conversations with local people, groups including seldom heard, to gather their thoughts about the STP -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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The last 12 months have seen a period of change and transformation for Healthwatch Doncaster. The creation of a new Community Interest Company (CIC), relocation to new premises and the appointment of a new
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Healthwatch Doncaster designed and delivered an engagement campaign aimed at older people, adults, children and families who attend Doncaster Town Cricket Club. The campaign was co-designed and delivered with Doncaster Town Cricket Club. -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect. -
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In July 2017, Healthwatch Doncaster attended the national conference of Healthwatch England, bringing together representatives of all Healthwatch’ across the country through a range of different workshops that were held designed to enhance our work -
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Aspiring provided afternoon tea to our guests; arranged memorabilia items around the room; during afternoon tea their guests were encouraged to select something from the memory table and to tell other guests any memories it may have evoked for them -
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The fourth annual Recovery Games on 18 August saw over 650 people from all parts of the UK coming together at Hatfield Activity Centre in Doncaster in a fun packed day of celebration of people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
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The number of people being cared for in their own homes is increasing but what should you expect from home care services? -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Board have a meeting every month - you can find the minutes and any other related documents below -
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You may have read information in the local media about concerns surrounding three surgeries: Church View (Denaby), Dunsville Medical Centre & Ransome Practice (Scawthorpe).