Healthwatch Northamptonshire will be having their Annual Meeting on Tuesday 18 October 2016, 12.45-3pm in Corby. Come and find out what Healthwatch Northamptonshire is doing to make your voice count and improve health and social care services across the county. We will be celebrating the work of Healthwatch Northamptonshire last year, telling you about our future plans and asking for your thoughts.

We will be holding a Healthwatch Northamptonshire Board Meeting prior to this (10am-12pm). Our Board meetings are open to the public.

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In May 2016 Healthwatch and the Nene and Corby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Patient Congress jointly held a public engagement event focussing on ‘Revolutionising Engagement and Involvement’. Thank you to all who attended and engaged with energised and valuable contributions. The report from this event is now available and is feeding in to the Northamptonshire Sustainability and Transformation Planning through a work stream under the joint responsibility of Public Health Northamptonshire and Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire. 

Revolutionising Engagement and Involvement Workshop Report

Since September 2015, Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HWN) has engaged with CYP with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) using a variety of activity and methods. Through attending events by partner organisations and by delivering assemblies and Personal Social Health Education (PSHE) lessons in schools we spoke to 230 CYP with SEND, either face to face (74) or via their completion of a survey (156). You can read the full report by clicking on the button below. 

Strategic Plan 2013 – 2018: The First Five Years
Our vision: Healthwatch Northamptonshire will be a strong, resolute and independent community champion. We will give local people a voice and work in partnership to influence the design and quality of health and social care provision so that local people have an improved quality of life  Click Here for More Information

Please note that we have now completed our move to new offices and have a new phone number. Please see below for details. 

Healthwatch Northamptonshire has created a survey to ask new mums their views on the help and support they received during their pregnancy, labour and in the postnatal period. The survey has been designed to understand what services new mums felt they had available and to tell us the about their overall experience. The survey aims to capture the views on services that new mums would have liked or needed. A focus group was held with new mums, and their contribution helped us to understand if we were asking the right questions in the questionnaire. To complete the New Mums Survey click here and to complete the New Dads/Partner Survey click here

Healthwatch Northamptonshire, the consumer champion for health and social care in Northamptonshire, has won a major award from Healthwatch England.The Network Choice Award was presented to Healthwatch Northamptonshire at the Healthwatch England Annual Conference held in Manchester. To read the full story click here, to read our full report on St Andrew’s Healthcare Northampton click here, to read the summary click here and for easy read click here. To read the media article click here.