News and reports

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.

Information and advice if you have a dental emergency or you wish to register with an NHS dentist.

Have your say on the provision of pharmacies and pharmacy services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Every 3 years, pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs) are carried out around the country to make sure that local community pharmacies (chemist shops) are meeting the pharmaceutical needs of local people.

Roving Healthcare Units are used for NHS walk -in services across the region. Please see the updated schedule for the roving healthcare unit, offering walk-in COVID, flu, RSV, pertussis and MMR vaccinations to anyone who is eligible.

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.