News and reports

We’re proud to support the Mental Health Foundation this Mental Health Awareness Week running from the 13th - 19th May.

This year’s theme is movement: moving more for our mental health.

Healthwatch report, "Pharmacy: what people want", explores the current state of pharmacy services and offers actions for healthcare leaders and the wider sector.
The report dives into people’s experiences of and attitudes towards pharmacy services at the outset of Pharmacy First.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) want your views on how best to change the NHS Constitution.
This consultation is part of the process to complete the 10 year review, as legislated for in the Health Act 2009.

Deaf Awareness Week 2024 runs from the 6th to the 12th of May 2024.

The UK Council on Deafness created Deaf Awareness Week to increase the visibility of challenges the deaf community faces and educate others on how they can support them. This year’s celebration isn’t just about raising awareness; it’s about igniting a movement—a movement fueled by love and grounded in trust. It’s about embracing diversity, championing inclusivity, and creating a world where every voice, whether spoken or signed, is heard and valued.

Report on our visit to Millbrow Care Home on 9 January 2024.

Dying Matters Week is the 6th-12th May. This year’s theme is ‘The way we talk about Dying Matters’, focuses on the language that we use, and conversations we have, around death and dying – specifically between healthcare professionals and patients, their carers and their families.

Being able to use a car as a driver or passenger is invaluable – especially if you have restricted mobility or a disability.

Patients across Cheshire and Merseyside are being asked to plan ahead for the May bank holiday weekend (Saturday 4 May – Monday 6 May) by ordering any repeat prescriptions they might need early.

Health chiefs are urging parents, guardians and families across the North West to ensure their children are up to date with their routine childhood immunisations, this World Immunisation Week (24 -30 April).

Engaging Communities Solutions (CIC) is contracted by Halton Borough Council to deliver Healthwatch Halton. Individuals and organisations have the right to express their views about the performance of Healthwatch Halton and the way in which it conducts its business.

NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) are looking for two Patient and Public Voices Partners (PPVPs) to join the NIA governance groups, to help ensure, with other members, that the voices and perspectives of patients and carers remain central to the NIA core mission and in turn to the national innovation landscape.

People aged 75 years and older, residents in care homes for older people, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system will be offered a dose of COVID-19 vaccine this spring.