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News
- Spooky Markets, Youth Voice Day, and more…
- Say hi to our team in September!
- Our visit to the Health, Wellbeing and Care Hub
- Exploring hospital staffs’ experiences of participatory service improvement methods
- Raising awareness of FGM at a UN Conference
- Football fans talk about men’s health at Braintree Fella’s Fair
- Healthwatch Essex receives national award for Trauma Card
- Healthwatch Essex to Host Fella’s Fair at Braintree Town Football Club
- Healthwatch Essex Shortlisted For Impact Awards 2023
- Children and Young People’s Asthma Support
- The Dual Challenge of Pregnancy and IBD
- Healthwatch Essex Joins Defence Employers Recognition Scheme
- Josh shares his story of being paralysed by the use of ‘balloons’
- Creating a community where everyone can be well
- Little Inventions for Big Change
- Hidden Homeless: Addressing the Health, Care, and Wellbeing Needs of Ex-Offenders in Essex
- ‘And I was dancing!’: Integrating Technology and Dance
- A Year of Success for Healthwatch Essex’s “Essex Fella’s Forum”.
- Healthwatch Essex Hosts Fella’s Fair
- Our Year in Review – 2022-23
- Trauma Cards win award for ‘Most Promising Pilot’
- Hear My Voice | Valerie’s Experience of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Healthwatch Essex to host ‘Fella’s Fair’
- Celebrating ten years of people speaking up to make care better
- Healthwatch Essex Launches Book & Films Sharing People’s Experiences of Fertility and Baby Loss
- Cost of living crisis affecting how people use health and care services
- Healthwatch Essex named Active Workplace of the Year
- Self Care Week 2022: Do Your Bit Essex and Exercise Self Care for Life
- Healthwatch Essex Launch Trauma Card To Empower Trauma Survivors
- Colchester Winter Resilience Campaign Launched
- Blood donors urged to book appointments as blood stocks are critically low
- Accessing Information & Guidance on Social Care
- Experiences of Urgent and Emergency Care
- Healthwatch Essex launches Research Ambassador Network
- Support for the cost of living crisis in Essex
- Healthwatch Essex host Accessible Information Workshop in Colchester
- NHS COVID-19 National Booking Service opens for autumn COVID-19 boosters
- Healthwatch Essex Signs Essex Faith Convenant
- What’s on the line? | SOS in Tendring
- Healthwatch Essex & Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust shortlisted for HSJ Award
- Our Year in Review – 2021/22
- Latest report explores employment for adults with Learning Disabilities
- Healthcare guide created for Ukrainians in Suffolk and North East Essex
- New report explores middle-aged men’s experiences of mental health and suicidal behaviour
- New report shares experiences of addiction and accessing support
- Essex residents share their stories of addiction recovery in new hard-hitting campaign
- Help build a world-leading children’s hospital for the East of England
- How to access your COVID booster jab in Essex
- Urgent Need for Local Vaccination and Winter Resilience Volunteers
- Healthwatch Essex Wins Prestigious National Award
- Project reveals how COVID-19 impacted Colchester’s charities and volunteers
- Feeling the effects of Long COVID?
- What can your NHS dentist do for you?
- Our new podcast launches!
- Advice following increase in severe respiratory illness in children
- Why share your experiences with Healthwatch?
- People urged to follow ‘hands, face, space’ in GP practices to keep patients and staff safe
- Researching men’s experiences of living with obesity
- COVID-19 restrictions to be eased further on 19th July
- Check out what we’ve been up to this year!
- Report Highlights Challenges Faced by Veterans in Essex
- Healthwatch Essex welcomes new Chair & Vice-Chair to the Board
- Healthwatch Essex Explores Addiction: Drugs
- Restrictions for Care Home Residents to Ease
- Hearing Help Essex CEO shares her story for Deaf Awareness Week
- COVID Vaccine and Pregnancy
- Support for staff working in health & social care during the pandemic
- What’s on the line | Multiple Sclerosis
- New Covid-19 test collection scheme to launch in Essex
- Mid and South Essex becomes an Integrated Care System helping join up care for 1.2m people
- Healthwatch Essex Explores Addiction: Gambling
- Healthwatch Essex becomes a Hate Incident Reporting Centre
- Essex County Council’s Supported Lodging
- Appeal for plasma donations to fight COVID-19
- Do you want to help the Ambulance Service in Mid & South Essex?
- Government publishes roadmap out of lockdown
- Healthwatch Essex Becomes a Domestic Abuse Reporting Centre
- Meet our two new apprentices: Sam and Libby
- Employment of adults with Learning Disabilities
- Call for People Aged 70 And Over To Contact NHS For Vaccination
- COVID-19 Vaccination Programme
- #ExpressYourself: Meet Zoe
- #ExpressYourself: Coping with Stress
- Information about COVID vaccinations for people living with dementia
- National lockdown introduced from today
- Remaining areas of Essex placed in Tier 4
- Changes to shielding guidance for Tier 4
- Most of Essex moves into Tier 4
- Essex encouraged to continue following COVID-19 guidelines
- Parts of Essex move into Tier 3
- Healthwatch Essex launches a sensory awareness campaign
- Support people living with sensory impairment during COVID-19
- NHS 111 First – booking a timeslot at A&E
- New Essex Child Health App Launched
- Essex COVID-19 Restrictions Explained
- Essex donors needed as donor centre now open in Chelmsford for COVID-19 plasma trial
- What Matters to Veterans in Essex?
- Essex enters second lockdown period
- Victims, Perpetrators & Witnesses: Tackling Child Criminal Exploitation in Essex
- Essex Fire Service shares advice for a happy and safe Halloween
- Essex Moves to High COVID Alert Level
- Meet our new trustees
- What’s on the line? | Hate Crime Awareness Week
- NHS COVID-19 App Launches
- Surge in demand for mental health support prompts new campaign
- COVID-19 – What people are telling Healthwatch
- Report Gives Unique Insight Into Mental Health Of Frontline Workers In Essex
- Public perceptions of health and social care in light of COVID-19 revealed
- Zooming in the Pandemic
- Do you know a Coronavirus Hero?
- Government Creates New National Institute for Health Protection
- New guidance on face coverings
- Essex COVID Impact Task Force Set Up
- Millions could be vaccinated against COVID-19
- Healthwatch Essex Appoints New Chief Executive
- Helping children understand COVID-19
- Frequently Asked Questions – NHS Services
- Frequently Asked Questions – Shielding
- Staying Safe As Lockdown Eases
- Healthwatch Essex launches live chat
- Shielding Restrictions Due to Ease
- COVID-19 – Understanding the impact on BAME communities
- COVID-19 tests offered to every care home for older people or those with dementia
- Restrictions for people shielding to ease
- Groups of up to six can exercise outside under new rules
- Government launches NHS Test and Trace service
- Government publishes COVID-19 recovery roadmap
- Guidance & Information on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- Help Us Help You: NHS Urges Public To Get Care When They Need It
- GPs & Pharmacies in Essex during COVID-19
- Our Film Wins The People’s Choice Award
- 7-year-old asks for help to get thank you to NHS into British Film Archive
- Tell us your experiences of health and social care during COVID-19
- Accessing Healthcare Over the Bank Holiday
- Community Shield: How Essex County Council are getting food supplies to our most vulnerable residents
- Healthwatch Essex announces new research project: Weight of Stigma (WoS)
- Josh & Healthwatch Essex in running for National Film Award
- Learn more about support to keep you safe this National Safeguarding Adults Week
- Healthwatch Essex put the voices of people with disabilities at the heart of Council planning
- Healthwatch Essex captures experiences of blind veteran diagnosed with lung cancer
- Healthwatch research reveals challenges of protecting adults at risk in Essex
- Public Health England Launches New Mental Health Campaign
- Public Information Regarding Measles Outbreak – Southend
- Mike Wins Award Recognising His Contribution to Cancer Services
- Hear my voice | Guest blog, Gemma’s story
- What would a ‘no deal Brexit’ mean for health and social care?
- What’s on the line? | Spotlight on Colchester Foodbank
- Healthwatch Essex Cancer Patient Partner Shortlisted for National Award
- Call for Young Mental Health Ambassadors Amid Increase in Young People Being Referred to Mental Health Services
- Hear my voice | Cancer Patient Partner, Judy Street
- What’s on the line? | New Feedback Centre
- What changes do people want to make to local services in Essex?
- What’s on the line? | Support for homelessness
- Discrimination in Health & Social Care | Have Your Say
- SWEET!3 | Study Reveals Experience of Young People in Secure Inpatient Mental Health Unit
- Take a look at our activity over the last year…
- What’s on the line? | Available support for domestic abuse
- Hear my voice | Maternity Patient Partners, Liz & Georgia
- Dying Matters – Are We Ready?
- Hear my voice | Cancer Patient Partner, Adrian Goodwin
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Co-production at its Best
- Public health commissioners act on YEAH!3 findings
- SWEET! report findings inform local & national plans
- Are you aware of Hidden Harm?
- Expert Child Health advice at your fingertips
- Primary School Uses Innovative Wellbeing Hub To Help Pupils With Mental Health
- Healthwatch Essex Chief Executive Responds to NHS 10-year-plan
- Healthwatch Essex Takes Local Views To The Heart of Westminster
- Healthwatch Essex and Social Care Leaders Promote Ways Through the ‘Care Maze’
- Healthwatch Essex Launches Report on Young People’s Attitudes to Health and Social Care
- Healthwatch Essex Announces Winner of Campaign to Celebrate the County’s Healthcare Heroes
- St Clare Hospice celebrates 2500th referral to Hospice at Home team
- Healthwatch Essex Researches Patient Experience At the End of Life
- The Patient’s Voice – A Crucial Safeguard Against Harm
- Celebrating Essex’s Healthcare Heroes
- Supporting families in Essex
- Success at the PEN Awards
- Grants awarded to six local organisations to improve information and signposting
- Carers Rights Day – is your business doing its bit for working carers?
- Healthwatch Harriet wins runner-up in Haelo Film Festival 2017
- New film launched: What on earth is self-care?
- Award-winning Information Team take their 5000th call
- Lived Experience training now available as an e-learning course
- New report reveals the health care experiences of Essex homeless
- Healthwatch Harriet Vanguard film tops 2,000 views!
- Working carers – is your business doing its bit?
- Our Hospital Discharge report still making waves
- SWEET to hear the voice of seldom heard young people
- How does a sensory impairment affect the use of health services?
- John wins! Ambassador given lifetime achievement award
- Healthwatch Harriet grills NHS bosses about STPs
- Read our YEAH! 2 report and watch the film
- Innovative conference highlights role of research
- SWEET! report urges innovation to engage hard-to-reach youngsters
- Carers unaware of support available to them
- Healthwatch Essex report underpins new plan to improve mental health for children and young people
- Healthwatch Essex supports Brentwood Leisure Trust’s ‘Fitness in Mind’ Programme
- Unpaid carers in Essex often feel isolated and powerless, Healthwatch Essex study finds
- Hear my voice | “I know many people who suffer from mental health issues.”
- Healthwatch Essex report finds that 8 in 10 young people don’t know how to access mental health services
Features
- Meet Dinesh, a Healthwatch Essex Trustee
- World Mental Health Day with the Essex Faith Covenant
- Introducing Susan’s Law
- From supporting patients to living with chronic pain: Jacqueline’s Story
- Healthwatch Essex Trauma Ambassadors Talk About Gender
- Navigating the Journey of Becoming a Carer: Megan’s Story
- Faith and Mental Health
- And the winning invention is…
- Marking World IBD Day
- Living with smell and taste disorders
- What do you need to know about loan sharks?
- A Pivotal Day at the House of Commons: Shaping the Future of Children’s Mental Health
- International Women’s Day 2024
- Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2024
- #MyVoiceMatters: Talking about mental health
- #MyVoiceMatters: Emotional Intelligence will ensure my voice is heard!
- A visit to Old Park Meadow
- Allie shares her story of a lifetime of self-harm after an abusive childhood
- Trauma Ambassador Lauren’s Story
- No More Silence – Jean’s Story
- Working with Essex Street and Rail Pastors
- Carer’s Week – Joe’s Story
- Fertility | Suzy’s Story
- Fertility | Elizabeth’s Story
- Fertility | Paul’s Story
- International Women’s Day 2023 – #EmbraceEquity
- Becoming a Research Ambassador | Ben’s Story
- What’s on the line? | Love Your Flow
- Hear My Voice | Rosie’s Experiences of Financial and Economic Abuse
- Volunteers Week: An Interview with Joe Cooke
- Mental Health Awareness Week – Loneliness and Domestic Abuse
- Hear My Voice | Karen’s Experiences of Emotional and Psychological Abuse
- Hearing Your Voices; Karen’s Experiences Of Domestic Abuse
- Healthwatch Essex Trauma Ambassador Group talk about… Sexual Assault Referral Centres
- What’s on the line? | Fitness for all
- Healthwatch Essex Celebrates International Women’s Day
- Essex nurse hospitalised with Covid twice urges the public to get vaccinated
- What Matters to Veterans: Alan’s Story
- What Matters to Veterans: Stephen’s Story
- What Matters to Veterans: Jim’s Story
- People reminded that GP surgeries are still open
- Not a new issue? Child Criminal Exploitation in Essex
- Hear my voice | Adam’s Story
- COVID-19 Healthwatch Information Guides Released
- What’s on the line? | Suicide Awareness
- What’s the Drill? | Advice for accessing a dentist
- Getting the most out of virtual health and care
- What’s on the Line? | Choosing a Care Home
- Life in the Pandemic – Georgia-Blue’s Story
- Hear my voice | Aimee’s Story
- Hear my voice | My birth story & lessons learned, Part II
- Hear my voice | My birth story and lessons learned, Part I
- Carers First celebrates Carers Week 2020 in Essex
- Essex unites to say thank you in volunteer week
- What does your mouth say about you?
- Terminally ill man shares the challenges of life in a global pandemic to help others
- Cancer and COVID-19
- Hear my voice | Guest blog, Zoe’s story
- The challenges of seeking support for a young carer in Essex
- Who cares? Thousands of us in Essex alone!
- Hear my voice | Guest blog, Sarah’s story
- Mother Shares Her Experience of Safeguarding In Heartbreaking Story of Crisis While Caring For Her Son
- Healthwatch Essex Board welcomes new Chair & Vice Chair
- What’s on the line? Keeping Well This Winter
- What’s on the line? | Spotlight on Essex Street Pastors
- What’s on the line? | Spotlight On Anisha Grange Care Home, Billericay
- Nicole’s Experience of Life in a Secure Inpatient Mental Health Unit
- Maggie’s Experience of Life in a Secure Inpatient Mental Health Unit
- Jenny’s Experience of Life in a Secure Inpatient Mental Health Unit
- Hear my voice | Maternity Patient Partner, Kerry MacKinnon-Wright
- What’s On The Line? | Singing For the Brain
- What’s on the line? Living with hearing loss
- What’s on the line? Just a bit stressed…
- What’s on the line? Save a life Give Blood
- What’s on the line? World Oral Health Day
- What’s on the line? | Nutrition and Hydration Week
- What’s on the line? Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- What’s on the line? A focus on Oral Cancer
- What’s on the line? Time for a benefits check!
- What’s on the line? Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week
- What’s on the line? – Dementia Awareness
- Hear my voice | Natasha Senior
- What’s on the line? | Better health in 2019
- What’s on the line with Blind Veterans UK?
- What’s on the line at Christmas?
- What’s on the line this winter?
- Hear my voice | Adrian Goodwin
- What’s on the line? | Hearing Loss
- What’s on the line? | Winter is coming
- What’s on the line? | Cooking with Refugee Action
- What’s on the line? | Visiting the Blind Veteran’s Choir
- Patient Bed Roadshow Goes Down a Storm
- Talking About The Big ‘C’…
- Young People in Essex Shamed By School Initiatives Tackling Obesity
- Young People in Essex Say Low Cost of Cannabis Is Making it More Popular than Cigarettes
- Half of Young People in Essex Say TV Adverts Put Them Off Smoking
- Healthwatch Essex Uncovers Patchy Public Health Education for Young People in Essex
- While the NHS Celebrates Seventy Years the Government Can’t Take Its Eye Off The Ball
- Hear my voice | Samantha Glover
- Eating Disorders Awareness Week – what is it like living with one?
- Let’s talk about mental health
- Discussing death and dying
- Hear my voice | What does World Mental Health Day mean to me?
- Health care for the homeless – it’s a big issue
- Hear my voice | My experiences of growing up with a dad with MS
- There needs to be a better understanding of Asperger syndrome
- Diagnosis of autism is not a magic key
- Just a normal day in the life of Jack
- Hear my voice | Living with a long-term condition
- Hear my voice | So, what’s it like having Parkinson’s?
- Hear my voice | The accidental carer
- Hear my voice | One day something went wrong
- When it happens to you
- Better understanding can lead to better services
- Hear my voice | Carers’ wellbeing
- Hear my voice | Sharing a wonderful life with my daughter who has Cerebral Palsy
- New figures provide food for thought about obesity in children
- Hear my voice | “Change needs to happen”
- Hear my voice | The right diagnosis is vital for the right support
- Hear my voice | The Wonderful World of Autism
- Hear my voice | Technology in home care can help, but it’s not a replacement
- It’s your NHS – so remember to share your experience and have your say
- Hear my voice | It saddens me that post-natal depression is a taboo subject.
- Winter pressure on the health and care system – what’s the answer?
- Hear my voice | “I don’t look at the future too much because it can be very scary.”
- Do you know where to go for information about health or social care?
- Talking about mental health
- What does ‘integrated care’ really mean?
- Hear my voice | “I believe that because I was 16 I was the ‘test dummy’”
- “Change needs to happen” – Bradley’s story about living with a learning disability
Consultations
Films
- Supporting World Mental Health Day 2023
- Trauma Survivors Across Essex Launch Film to Improve Uptake of Cervical Screening
- Co-Production as part of COVID-19 recovery
- Living Well With Dementia
- Dying Matters | Crucial Conversations
- Experience of Care | Co-Production at its Best
- Hear my voice | Blindness following military service
- What do children think of the NHS?
- Joshua’s meets Dr Babu, his healthcare hero
- Hear my voice | Healthwatch Essex Patient Bed Roadshow
- Navigating the Care Maze – Hospital Discharge
- Navigating the Care Maze – Blindness and Cancer
- Navigating the Care Maze – Alcoholism
- Navigating the Care Maze – Dementia
- Healthwatch Essex – Who we are and what we do
- Healthwatch Harriett | What is Self Care?
- Hear my voice | Working Carers
Research Reflections
- #Red4Research- Recommendations for organisations to encourage their staff to engage in service improvement projects
- #Red4Research- Exploring the difference between informal and formal co-production
- #Red4Research- An overview of hospital staffs’ perspectives of co-production
- The impact of social media on eating disorders
- Benefits of Wilderness Therapy: How Green Exercise Can Improve Mental Health
- Austerity and Women’s Health
- A Lost Opportunity: My Reflections on a Women’s Health Conference
- Why am I rewatching the same TV show again?
- Translating Research
- Introducing Healthwatch Essex’s Glossary
- A short guide on preparing for an interview
- Reflecting on mindfulness for Mental Health Awareness Week
- ‘Tell us about a book that means a lot to you’: Compiling a Healthwatch Essex reading list
- Approaches to Co-Production: Overcoming Inequalities and Empowering Citizens
- Transitions in Research (One Researcher’s Journey)
- Lived Experience Research at Healthwatch Essex: A Service User’s Perspective.
- Participatory Research and Informed Consent: using lived experiences to encourage active involvement
- The moral considerations of conducting short-term research in a pandemic
Resources
Academic Articles
- Positive and negative experiences of mental health from a service user’s/lived experience perspective
- Valued tactics: Men’s reframing of participation in football-based weight management programmes as a working utopia of collective action
- Lived Experience Research: A Guide to Barriers and Facilitators From a Service User’s Perspective
- Extraordinary normalcy Home, relationships and identities in narratives of unpaid care
- The experience of transitional care for non-medically complex older adults
- Frontline Healthcare Staffs’ Experience of Organising Complex Hospital Discharges
Annual Reports
- Annual Report 2023/24
- Annual Report 2022/23
- Annual Report 2021/22
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2020/21
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2019/20
- Annual Report 2018/19
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2017-18
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2016-17
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2015-16
- Healthwatch Essex Annual Report 2014-15
Reports
- Supporting Partnerships
- Digitally Accessing Information About CYP Mental Health
- Healthwatch Essex Trauma Card Pilot Evaluation
- Exploring Hospital Discharge at Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Experiences of Living with Diabetes in West Essex
- Experiences in West Essex of the Menopause and Perimenopause
- Children and young people’s asthma support
- IBD and Pregnancy
- Experiences of Cervical Screening in West Essex
- Neurodiversity & Accessing Health and Care
- Community Asset Mapping: Be Well
- Community Asset Mapping: Age Well
- Hidden Homeless
- Experiences of accessing treatment and support for COPD and other 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 health and wellbeing effects of living with mould in North East Essex
- Experiences of Dermatology Services in North East Essex
- Happiness, Heartbreak & Hope: Experiences of Fertility in Essex
- Community Asset Mapping: Stay Well
- Experiences of Community Pharmacies in West Essex
- Support and help for people who care for others in West Essex
- Community Asset Mapping: Die Well
- Accessing GP Services in Harlow and Uttlesford
- Experience of Elective Care Waiting Times in North East Essex
- Experiences in North East Essex of The Menopause and Perimenopause
- Access to GP Services for Children and Young People in West Essex
- Young Mental Health Ambassadors Discussions: Body Image
- Community Asset Mapping: Feel Well – Mental Health
- Pathways to Meaningful Lives
- Middle-aged Men’s Experiences of Mental Health and Suicide
- The Transition From Child To Adult Services
- Do I Want To See A GP?
- Addiction: Gambling, Drugs & Alcohol
- Community Asset Mapping: Start Well – Children, Young People and Families
- Living with Obesity
- What Matters to Veterans?
- ‘Victims, Perpetrators and Witnesses’: Tackling child criminal exploitation in Essex
- Mental Health on the Frontline
- 555 Making Safeguarding Personal
- Making Safeguarding Personal | Phase 2
- SWEET!3
- Constructing the End of Life: Tools, Conversations, Ideas of Home
- YEAH! 3
- Extraordinary normalcy Home, relationships and identities in narratives of unpaid care
- The health care experiences of homeless people in Essex
- SWEET! 2
- Dementia Voices
- The lived experience of self-care in mental health in Essex
- 555 Sensory Impairment report
- The experience of transitional care for non-medically complex older adults
- Negotiating the Care Maze
- Insights into Hospital Discharge at Colchester General Hospital
- Social and Cultural Aspects of Food Shopping Report
- Insights into Hospital Discharge at Princess Alexandra Hospital
- HOSC Success Regime Report
- YEAH! 2
- Frontline Healthcare Staffs’ Experience of Organising Complex Hospital Discharges
- Insights into Hospital Discharge at Broomfield Hospital
- 555 Neurology Report
- Carers said
- SWEET!
- Exploring the lived experience of carers in South Essex
- YEAH!
- 555 Mental Health Project Report
- Cancer Services in Colchester
- Future Focus