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On 11 March 2025, we hosted a dynamic and engaging conference at the College Court Conference Centre, bringing together 83 delegates from local community groups, healthcare professionals and members of the public.
Themed “Speak Up, Be Heard,” the event provided an opportunity for open discussions on health and care services, ensuring that community voices help shape local priorities. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 23rd January 2024. -
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Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 26th March 2024. -
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Read the update from Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Advisory Board meeting which took place on 30th April 2024. -
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Be a voice for your community in shaping local health and social care services. As a Board Member, you’ll help guide strategy, engage stakeholders, and ensure services meet local needs. If you have leadership, collaboration, and a passion for improving care, we want you on our team! This flexible volunteer role requires up to 16 hours a month. Apply now and make an impact!
Healthwatch is the consumer champion for people who use health and social care services, ensuring that communities are engaged, listened to and provided with an avenue to tell us their views and opinions. -
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New research highlights ADHD diagnosis can change people’s lives, giving them a better understanding of themselves, improving their wellbeing, self-esteem, and concentration at work.
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Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire are inviting members of the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community to share their experiences of accessing local health and social care services. We want to hear your voice.
It’s been over a decade since our last major engagement with the Deaf community, when we published a joint report in partnership with the Leicester Deaf Forum and British Deaf Association in 2014. Since then, health and care services have undergone significant changes and now, more than ever, we need to understand the current challenges and opportunities for Deaf people in our area.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View visit to Asquith Surgery in Leicester in October 2023.
See the attached report available for download.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Aaron Court Care Home in February 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View to Springfield Road Surgery in March 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Humberstone Medical Centre in April 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Saffron Health Practice in June 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Clarendon Mews Care Home in November 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Northfield Medical Centre in May 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Orchard Manor View Care Home in February 2025.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Leicester Royal Infirmary & Leicester General Hospital Gynaecology services in July and August 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View for Learning Disability Patient Experience at Leicester Royal Infirmary in September 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Egerton Lodge Residential Home in February 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Amberwood Care Home in February 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at The Willows Nursing and Residential Home in July 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Waring Close Care Home in August 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Glenfield Surgery in September 2023.
See the attached report available for download.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Brockshill Woodlands in July 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Hallaton Manor Care Home in October 2023.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Hazelmere Medical Centre in November 2023.
See the attached report available for download.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Hunters Lodge Care Home in January 2024.
See the attached report available for download.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at the Meadows Care Home in April 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Manor Park Medical Practice in February 2024.
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Our team carried out an Enter and View at Jubilee Medical Practice in May 2024.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The aim of this project is to represent the public voice in the development of the 2024 Dementia Strategy for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland at a time when the incidence of dementia is forecast to increase.
Read the main findings in this report.
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Our Access to Health care project is to listen and explore how people have been accessing their health care and what that experience has been like for them. We have identified groups and we will seek to listen and outline what the specific issues are for those communities.
Our focus for this project was to engage with asylum seekers who have been accommodated in hotels in Leicestershire.
In July and August 2023, we visited five hotels in Leicestershire and spoke to 85 people.
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Our access to health care project is to listen and explore how people have been accessing their health care and what that
experience has been like for them. We have identified groups and we will seek to listen and outline what the specific issues are for those communities.
Our focus for this project was to engage with asylum seekers who have been accommodated in hotels in Leicester.
We wanted to find out any challenges people face, the barriers that they have to accessing services and how they perceive and interact with the health and social care systems.
In August and September 2023, we visited three hotels in Leicester and spoke to 65 people. We also visited the Leicester City of Sanctuary in October 2023 and spoke to 25 people.
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Our coffee, chai and chat group sessions aimed to listen and explore how people from ethnic communities find accessing their local health and social care services, what that experience has been like for them and what barriers there are that stop them from accessing the services that they needed to address their health and wellbeing.
Read about our findings in this report.
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When it comes to accessing health and social care, your views count. Part of our role is to understand the experiences of people who are using these services and to give people an opportunity to speak up and have their voices heard.
We developed a survey to give us a snapshot of how people in Leicester and Leicestershire who identify as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ+) access local services.
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We took part in Healthwatch England’s research looking at the impact of waiting for NHS specialist eye care on people’s daily lives.
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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. -
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Healthwatch Leicester and Healthwatch Leicestershire Annual Report shows how we listened to you in 2023/24.
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.