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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
and is summarised later in this report -
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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 Lions Clubs of Tickhill & District and Thorne Rural have made a very generous donation to Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Serenity Suite Appeal to help local families affected by baby loss. -
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Members of the Paediatric team at Doncaster Royal Infirmary (DRI) hosted a ‘Winter Wonderland’ for staff and patients on 15 December, raising a whopping £3,300 to be reinvested into the Paediatric and Neonatal departments. -
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A Doncaster “diamond” who has clocked up more than 50 years of volunteering has chronicled the story of her selfless service for others in her newly published ‘autobiography’ - with all proceeds from it going to the charity she supports. -
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The NHS is asking patients to seek emergency care if they need to during industrial action and take simple steps to help ensure care is available to patients who need it most. -
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Medication that can quickly reverse the life-threatening effects of a drug overdose is being issued to at risk prisoners for safe keeping when they are released from Doncaster’s police custody suite. -
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Men in Conisbrough and Denaby are being encouraged to get onboard a new campaign to spot the early warning signs of cancer. -
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Healthcare professionals at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) have introduced Magseed and Magtrace to help improve the accuracy and timeliness of breast tumour surgery. -
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Thousands of Doncaster women are not taking advantage of a potentially life-saving health check, latest NHS figures reveal. -
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Findings from a survey of more than 20,900 women who gave birth in February 2022 show fewer reporting positively about their experience of maternity care, with a notable decline in the number able to get help from staff when they needed it. -
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The Royal College of Nursing are to undertake industrial action on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January 2023 -
CQC inspectors publish reports on 244 Adult Social Care, Primary Medical Care and Hospitals Services
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In the past week, the Care Quality Commission published 244 reports on services which have been inspected by specialist teams of inspectors. -
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On Tuesday 10 January, colleagues at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) were invited to join a menopause awareness session with special guest Dr Dawn Harper. -
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Public consultation on two proposed health centres in the Bentley & Rossington areas of Doncaster opened 16th January. For a period of 12 weeks people affected by the plans are being invited to give their views
through surveys & public meetings. -
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A Doncaster nurse consultant, who left school with two ‘O’ levels and had to re-sit her exams before she could start training for her chosen profession, is now celebrating joining an elite national nursing group. -
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Doncaster’s new roving vaccination van is taking to the streets to encourage people who’ve not yet had their Covid jab to come forward and protect themselves this winter. -
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Colleagues at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) are inviting local people interested in pursuing a career in health to attend an Allied Health Professional (AHP) recruitment fayre in February. -
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We all know going for our smear test isn’t full of rainbows and unicorns however gynaecological health is so important. Yet, only 1/3 women take up their screening invite. We spoke to our own Natalie Bowler-Smith about her first smear test. -
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Denise Smith has joined Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) as the organisation’s new Chief Operating Officer (COO). -
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Patients, residents and the general public are invited to drop-in open meeting in Bentley, Doncaster to hear plans for a new health hub in the area. -
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A menopause conference is being held this year on how places of work can put in place essential support for people going through the menopause. -
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Are you passionate about Health and Social Care? Have you got experience in governance, business or working with diverse communities? We are looking to grow our Board! Find out how to apply here. -
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Over the course of four days next week, starting on Monday 6 February, further industrial action will be taken across South Yorkshire for ambulance services, paramedics, call handlers, including those covering NHS 111. -
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A Doncaster service which supports people who have problems with substance use, hosted a visit from the Independent Adviser to the Government on Health, Wellbeing and Drugs earlier this month. -
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The Stroke Rehabilitation team at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough are walking 1,189 miles in eight weeks to raise funds for a specialist bariatric wheelchair. -
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On Wednesday 1 February, the Children’s Ward at Doncaster Royal Infirmary received special visitor Magician Freddie from POD Children’s Charity. -
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Doncaster health workers have launched a campaign targeting the city’s young people with the message: nitrous oxide abuse is NO laughing matter. -
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Doncaster Council have now developed a short survey for people to complete as part of engagement for the new Co-Produced Dementia Strategy. This is for with dementia/memory concerns, their family/friends, carers, volunteers and other professionals. -
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A Doncaster Psychiatrist, whose ‘working’ life started as a young boy delivering telegrams on his bike for a few pence in the Midlands pit village where his mum was postmistress, has retired after clocking up over 50 years of front-line care. -
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) is set to receive £14.9 million of capital investment funding from NHS England (NHSE) to develop an elective orthopaedic centre at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough. -
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Mexborough men are being encouraged to get onboard a new campaign to spot the warning signs of cancer. Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Service staff will be on the NHS Health Bus when it parks up at Mexborough Market on Monday 27 February. -
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A team which supports new and expectant mums in Doncaster to quit smoking is raising awareness of the impact that smoking has on the health and wellbeing of their babies. -
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An NHS service which supports the health and wellbeing of children and young people in Doncaster is encouraging families affected by drug and alcohol misuse to get in touch. -
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Healthwatch Doncaster were commissioned by Doncaster Council to understand the experiences of users of Doncaster dementia pathway services and their carers. -
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The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Diabetic Eye Screening team have organised their very first ‘Super Saturday’ clinic, inviting individuals who have not attended diabetic eye screening for over two years. -
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) is inviting soon-to-qualify nurses to a series of open days in March.