Navigating Digital Health: Online GP Services and Bookings
Delivered on behalf of Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System, this report explores experiences of digitally accessing GP services and bookings.
Community Asset Mapping: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to COPD in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Orthodontic Care in West Essex
This report explores experiences of orthodontic services in West Essex.
Transitions
This project explored people’s experiences of being on the gender identity clinic waiting list.
You can also read the zine as a flipbook here.
Hidden Homeless 2: An Exploration of the Health, Care and Wellbeing Needs of People Involved in Sex Work in Essex
In the second phase of our Hidden Homeless series, we explored the health, care and wellbeing needs of people involved in sex work.
Annual Report 2023/24
Read about what we have been up to from April 2023 to March 2024.
Supporting Partnerships
This report explores hospital staffs’ experiences of participatory service improvement methods (co-production).
Digitally Accessing Information About CYP Mental Health
Discussions were held with the Young Mental Health Ambassadors to discuss how best to engage with young people. It was decided collectively that we would co-produce a survey to collect the views of the Ambassadors and their peers.
Healthwatch Essex Trauma Card Pilot Evaluation
Healthwatch Essex in collaboration with the University of Essex have conducted a pilot study of the Trauma Card’s effectiveness, drawing on feedback from both Trauma Card users and the professionals they have shared the card with.
Exploring Hospital Discharge at Princess Alexandra Hospital
This report explores experiences of hospital discharge at Princess Alexandra Hospital in West Essex.
Experiences of Living with Diabetes in West Essex
Delivered on behalf of Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System, this report explores experiences of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in West Essex.
Experiences in West Essex of the Menopause and Perimenopause
Delivered on behalf of Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System, this report explores the experiences of people in West Essex in relation to menopause and perimenopause.
Children and young people’s asthma support
In collaboration with Healthwatch Suffolk, this report explores children and young people’s experiences of local asthma support in Suffolk and North East Essex.
IBD and Pregnancy
This report explores experiences of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) before, during and after pregnancy.
Experiences of Cervical Screening in West Essex
This latest report, commissioned by Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, aims to gather people’s lived experience of accessing and using the
cervical screening programme across West Essex.
Neurodiversity & Accessing Health and Care
This report, commissioned by Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, looks into the relationship between the NHS in West Essex and its neurodiverse population, their carers and families.
Community Asset Mapping: Be Well
This latest report, commissioned by the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance, aims to highlight the strength of the community through the numerous assets found across six neighbourhoods in Tendring and Colchester.
Community Asset Mapping: Age Well
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to ageing well in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Hidden Homeless
The first report in a series looking a Hidden Homeless in Essex. This report explores the health, care and wellbeing needs of prisoners, prison leavers and ex-offenders.
Annual Report 2022/23
Read about what we have been up to from April 2022 to March 2023.
Experiences of accessing treatment and support for COPD and other respiratory conditions in West Essex
This report has been designed to draw out the lived experience of our local population to identify real world issues, successes, and challenges in relation to accessing support for COPD and respiratory conditions in West Essex.
Healthwatch Essex Strategic Plan 2024-2027
An Insight Into Health and Care Access, Including Self-Care, for Adults with a Learning Disability
The aim of this project was to gather people’s experiences of accessing and using primary care across West Essex, in particular focussing on the experience of adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers/families and support workers.
The health and wellbeing effects of living with mould in North East Essex
This report explores the experiences of people living with mould in North East Essex.
Experiences of Dermatology Services in North East Essex
This report explores the experiences of people using the dermatology service in North East Essex.
Happiness, Heartbreak & Hope: Experiences of Fertility in Essex
This book explores a wide variety of experiences around fertility and baby loss.
Community Asset Mapping: Stay Well
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to staying well in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Positive and negative experiences of mental health from a service user’s/lived experience perspective
Healthwatch Essex Research Ambassador, Ben Gray, explores lived experience of mental health in this academic article published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
Experiences of Community Pharmacies in West Essex
The aim of this report was to explore people’s experiences of accessing community pharmacies in West Essex in order to inform the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.
Support and help for people who care for others in West Essex
Through this report, Healthwatch Essex aimed to voice the lived experiences of carers in West Essex, to highlight their support needs, and allow comparison to be made between those needs and what is being delivered through the ICS.
Valued tactics: Men’s reframing of participation in football-based weight management programmes as a working utopia of collective action
Our Research Team explore men’s health, obesity and weight management in this academic article published in SSM – Qualitative Research in Health.
Community Asset Mapping: Die Well
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to end of life care in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Accessing GP Services in Harlow and Uttlesford
This report explores people’s experiences of accessing GP services in Harlow and Uttlesford between August and November 2022.
Experience of Elective Care Waiting Times in North East Essex
Following the pandemic, we explored the impact that waiting times have physically and emotionally, not just for the patient, but for family and friends as well.
Experiences in North East Essex of The Menopause and Perimenopause
This report was designed to canvas the experiences of people living in North East Essex in relation to menopause and perimenopause to help improve service provision.
Access to GP Services for Children and Young People in West Essex
This report aims to capture the thoughts, emotions and lived experience of people trying to access GP services on behalf of children and young people within West Essex.
Young Mental Health Ambassadors Discussions: Body Image
This report discusses what our Young Mental Health Ambassadors (YMHA) and other young people think about body image.
Community Asset Mapping: Feel Well – Mental Health
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to mental health in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Annual Report 2021/22
Read about all of our activities throughout 2021 into early 2022.
Pathways to Meaningful Lives
This report explores the experiences of employment of adults with Learning Disabilities.
Middle-aged Men’s Experiences of Mental Health and Suicide
This report explores middle-aged men’s experiences of mental health and suicide.
The Transition From Child To Adult Services
This report explores experiences of the transition from child to adult health, care and wellbeing services in North East Essex.
Do I Want To See A GP?
This report explores experiences of GP services in North East Essex.
Addiction: Gambling, Drugs & Alcohol
This report explores experiences of addiction, including the support available and barriers to seeking support.
Lived Experience Research: A Guide to Barriers and Facilitators From a Service User’s Perspective
Healthwatch Essex Research Ambassador, Ben Gray, explores his lived experience of Schizophrenia in an academic article published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Understanding Inequalities Co-Designing accessibility to health services in Mid and South Essex
Report examining outputs from LD patient, carer and staff Co-Design Event.
Community Asset Mapping: Start Well – Children, Young People and Families
This North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance report explores assets relating to children’s wellbeing in Colchester and Tendring in collaboration with C360 and CVST.
Living with Obesity
The first output of our research on the experiences of men living with obesity in the East of England.
Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2020/21
Read all about our activities and the impact that we had throughout 2020/21.
What Matters to Veterans?
This report explores the experiences of veterans in Essex and highlights a number of challenges they face when transitioning from military to civilian life.
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