News and reports

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.

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.