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Front cover of the spotlight on Learning Disabilities

Spotlight on Learning Disabilities

In the second of a new series of reports, we have highlighted the feedback we’ve heard from people with learning disabilities. Everything we have heard from people is included in the report.

Gypsy & Traveller report

Spotlight on Gypsy & Traveller communities

Kent has one of the highest populations of Travellers in the UK. At Healthwatch Kent we regularly visit Traveller sites to hear directly from the community about the issues they face about health and social care services.

Cover of the checklist for patient support during GP closures and mergers

What should happen when GP surgeries close or merge?

Healthwatches across the South East have heard from people who are concerned about their GP surgery either closing or merging.

What support is available for partially sighted patients?

Attending a hospital appointment can be daunting. If you struggle to read, hear, understand or communicate these worries can be extreme.

26 November 2018

Front page on our focus on Food Banks

Focus on Food Banks

Our parent company, Engaging Kent is working with Food Banks across Kent to support them to come together and create the Kent Food Bank Forum.

17 October 2018

First page of the 'Focus on Hospital Food' report

Focus on hospital food

We asked patients in East Kent for their feedback about the food and drink they had received during their time in hospital in East Kent.

11 October 2018

First page of the IAPT focus report

Have you used IAPT services?

We've had some feedback about IAPT services but we want to hear more!

tHealthwatch England's mental health report front cover. The images on the report incudes one of an older man and another of young people chatting.

What is everyone saying about mental health services?

There are 152 Healthwatches across the country and together we hear more about mental health services than anything else.

28 September 2018

Healthwatch Kent visits 24 Care Homes in Kent

Across the country, Independent Age has been working with Healthwatch to explore what people are looking for when choosing a care home.

19 September 2018

Illustration of a brain

Neurological services in East Kent

This week we held a workshop with people with neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease and Parkinsons, together with carers and staff working in neurological services.

The front cover of the discharge report for east kent. The image is of a person being pushed in a wheelchair to the discharge lounge.

What did people tell us about being discharged from hospital in East Kent?

Over 190 people shared their experience of being discharged from the three hospitals in East Kent in 2018.

Healthwatch Kent annual report

Read our annual report

Each year we publish an annual report. Here is the 2018 one!