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Children and young people’s mental health is a priority focus area for local Healthwatch.
Healthwatch Leicester, Healthwatch Leicestershire and Healthwatch Rutland visited the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) – The Beacon Unit at Glenfield Hospital to gather young people’s views and experiences of the service provided and to observe the environment and operation of the facility.

Healthwatch Leicester, Healthwatch Leicestershire and Healthwatch Rutland recently visited the Children’s Emergency Department (ED) at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI). This visit was part of a series looking at urgent and emergency care services.

The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) today announced that preparation work for a Day Case Unit at Hinckley and District Hospital is set to begin in coming weeks.

The Department of Health and Social Care has extended the spend date of the allocated funding for the new Day Case Unit until March 2026, to enable its delivery. The total cost of the new facility is £10.5million.

Changing the NHS is going to involve everyone. The government wants to hear people's views, experiences and ideas as part of this engagement to help shape the 10 Year Health Plan for England.

Anyone aged 16 and over, living in England, can take part and it's important that everyone has a say and shares their views.

Almost two decades after the public lost their right to register permanently with an NHS dentist, our new research shows two-thirds believe this right exists. Find out more about our findings and calls for dental reform.

Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire is proud to announce the release of a new insight report based on our recent “Coffee, Chai, and Chat” group sessions. The report brings forward the often unheard voices of ethnic communities across Leicester and Leicestershire, including Punjabi, Bangladeshi, Gujarati, and Pakistani communities, encompassing both men and women.

Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 26th March 2024.

Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 23rd January 2024.

Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 30th April 2024.

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.