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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Brockshill Woodlands in July 2023.
See the attached report available for download.

Our team carried out an Enter and View at The Willows Nursing and Residential Home in July 2023.
See the attached report available for download.

Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Annual Report shows how we listened to you in 2022/23.

Read about our work, how many people engaged with us and how their feedback helped us to shape and improve health and social care services in Leicester and Leicestershire. Find out what our plans and priorities are for the next year.

Our team carried out an Enter and View at Amberwood Care Home in February 2023.
See the attached report available for download.

Our team carried out an Enter and View at Egerton Lodge Residential Home in February 2023.
See the attached report available for download.

Our Access to Health care project is to listen and to explore how people have been accessing their health care and what that experience has been like for them.
In January 2023, we held two separate face to face focus group sessions with Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Leicester to seek their views, concerns on their experiences in accessing health care service.
Read our insight report which outlines the main challenges for these groups and the improvements that they would like to see.

Our access to Health care project is to listen and to explore how people have been accessing their health care and what that
experience has been like for them.
In November 2022, we attended a Somali women’s groups in Leicester to seek their views on their experiences in accessing health care. We engaged with nine members of the community. This was a face-to-face focus group session which were culturally sensitive and community interpreters were used where required.
Read the report of our findings.

Our access to Health care project is to listen and to explore how people have been accessing their health care and what that experience has been like for them.
In November 2022, we attended the Deaf Community Centre in Leicester to seek the deaf communities' views on their experiences in accessing healthcare. We engaged with eight members of the community. This was a face to-face focus group session which were culturally sensitive and community interpreters were used where required.

Read the findings from our research in the report.

Our project set out to look at how the HRA (Homelessness Reduction Act 2017) works in practice for homeless people in Leicester and Leicestershire by gathering feedback from homeless people and those who work directly to support them.
Our aim was to understand the experience of hospital admissions and discharge of homeless people and the ease of accessing post discharge care in the community.
Read the findings from our research in the report.