Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire Visit to Kettering General Hospital

This piece of work was suggested by the Young Healthwatch group at a workshop in 2015 as part of their work plan. This is the first time that young people have reported their observations of a general hospital children’s ward in Northamptonshire. Healthwatch Northamptonshire staff accompanied the young people on the visit and training was provided to prepare the volunteers.

This report has been written by Young Healthwatch volunteers in their own words and expresses their own opinions. It is based on their own observations and those of the people they spoke to – one child and one teenager using the sensory room and the parents of a baby. The content has not been altered by either Healthwatch Northamptonshire or Kettering General Hospital except for clarification where noted