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The new Pharmacy First scheme enables your local pharmacy to treat some common conditions with prescription-only medicines, without you visiting your GP. Find out everything you need to know. -
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Are you struggling to find an NHS dentist? The new dental recovery plan might help you get the dental care you need. -
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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.
Read the findings from our research in the report. -
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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.
Read the findings from our research in the report. -
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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.
Read the report of our findings. -
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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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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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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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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.
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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.