Healthwatch carry out independent research and evaluations on different aspects of health and social care that are driven by feedback that we receive from the public. Healthwatch relies upon the voice of the public to provide us with vital information on your experience of health and social care services and your suggestions as to how they can be improved and how best practice can be shared.
Projects
Working in partnership with Healthwatch Rutland to explore the current service provision and to find out from parents if the local service is meeting their needs.
We will explore if people’s needs of health and care services are being met in Leicester and Leicestershire. We have identified groups and we will seek to listen and outline what the specific issues are for those communities. We are aiming to collect feedback from health and care services users of the following communities:
- Somali
- Bangladeshi
- Physical disability
- Learning Disability
- Neuro diversity
- LGBTQIA+
- Unpaid Carers, including young carers
- Gypsies and Travellers
- New settlers including refugees and asylum seekers.
We will be exploring what local services currently exist for Dementia service users and to identify any gaps in provision as identified by people who arrange and use them. Investigate whether services have been maintained or reduced because of the Covid-19 pandemic and whether there are plans to expand or restore services over the next 3 years.
Over the last year the way people access health and social care has changed dramatically. Increasingly, more models of care are being developed and some delivered online.
The purpose of this priority is to:
- examine how people are accessing health and social care
- assess which of those models of care people prefer
- make recommendations based on the end-user experience
The project will engage with groups via online sessions, 1:1 and surveys with specific cohorts of people, to include:
- learning disabilities and non-visible disabilities
- carers and unpaid carers
- young people
- people with long term conditions
- those using mental health services for the first time
- people who have treatments or appointments cancelled or postponed
- those with young children to see if there are concerns around child development
- housebound patients
- accessing other services e.g. NHS dentist, outpatients, cancer