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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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Part of the local Healthwatch programme is to carry out Enter and View visits to get a clearer picture of health and social care service provision locally, to help ensure that the people of Doncaster are receiving good quality, accessible care -
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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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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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Findings from the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) national survey of more than 17,600 women who gave birth in February last year show that many had a good experience, including in relation to interactions with staff -
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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 spoke to students at Doncaster College to ask them about their thoughts on joined up health and care services -
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling for people to speak up about their experiences of care, as new research shows that people in Yorkshire Humber had concerns about their care but didn't raise them -
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As part of on-going work with our local partners Voiceability Doncaster, the Local Medical Committee and NHS Doncaster CCG there was a willingness to get involved in developing some videos and information to support people to prepare for dying well -
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The Authorised Representatives felt that the home had a caring, homely atmosphere. Everyone was welcoming and the manager and owner were very honest and open with a ‘nothing to hide/help us to improve’ approach. -
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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 Authorised Representatives felt the home generally had good atmosphere. Some minor improvements could ensure a more dementia friendly environment. -
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling on independent ambulance services, commissioners and the wider system to do more to make sure patients are safe, following concerns identified during its inspections -
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Healthwatch Doncaster's Enter and View team conducted an initial visit in August 2018, with a follow-up visit in March 2019 -
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Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections have shown good progress is being made by some NHS hospital trusts to implement national guidance on learning from deaths. -
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The group is organised and run by volunteers, most of whom have macular disease, or know someone who has a macular condition. The group offers support and help in understanding macular disease and coming to terms with sight loss. -
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The aim of the project is to deliver six sewing workshops (workshops targeting a small group of Black Minority Ethnic older people), delivering health conversations around the topic of social prescribing in Doncaster.
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This was a drop in session for Refugee and Asylum Seeker women and children. The session is also used to do craft work and it also serves as a food distribution and clothing hub -
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Be Cancer Safe is a social movement across the region which aims to raise awareness of cancer and increase the number of people diagnosed earlier. They hosted a Community Engagement Event at New York Stadium in Rotherham -
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This was a drop in for men of all ethnicities to get together and discuss topics which are relevant to them. They encourage and welcome new people to the group and give support to new arrivals in particular -
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A new campaign led by Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group to help raise awareness of the importance of self-care has launched in Doncaster, to help reduce prescribing by encouraging people to purchase over the counter medicines -
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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. -
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Healthcare in Doncaster will only work if people get to have their say – urges student Evan Howle -
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Doncaster Council have published their Adult Social Care Peer Challenge Report that contains the findings and recommendations including an excerpt below showcasing the work of Healthwatch Doncaster -
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Rotherham Military Community Veterans Centre (MCVC) Group are all Serving or Ex Service people or supporters, working together to provide a one stop point of contact in the Borough for our fellow military personnel -
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A group of adults ranging across all ages who meet together for the purposes of Peer Support around mental health -
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Healthwatch Sheffield facilitated a two hour focus group with a group of ten adults with learning disabilities. Five support staff employed by Burton Street Foundation
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Community groups in Doncaster can team up to apply for a maximum amount of £1,000 during Healthwatch Doncaster’s annual micro-grant scheme that launched this week. -
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A group of adults ranging across all ages who meet together for the purposes of Peer Support around mental health. This was the second visit to the PFG and gave access to some of the previous members from the week previous but in addition gave access -
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A community group supported by the local church in Bentley. They offer help to anyone irrelevant of their religious beliefs. Engagement around the views and opinions of local people in regards to the NHS Long Term Plan -
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Healthcare in Doncaster will only work if people get to have their say – urges Healthwatch Doncaster Board member Sucha Singh. -
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Deaf Futures meet every Friday in a local community centre and have access to a BSL interpreter. The session is for the deaf community of Rotherham to attend as a social activity, to find out information on what is
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Healthwatch Doncaster update to the NHS Doncaster CCG's Engagement and Experience Committee (EEC)