News and reports

Healthwatch Kent comments on the Maternity services in East Kent.

Kent County Council have just launched a new consultation on their 5 year plan 'Your Future, Our Priority' and want to know your thoughts.

NHS Trusts all over Kent come to Healthwatch regularly seeking guidance on how to involve patients, carers and families more constructively in their services.  In this report, we discuss patient experience.

Can you share your experience to help improve it for others?

What could be improved? What worked well? Did you get the response you expected?

Three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our lives. Kate* tells us about what it was like becoming a carer for her husband and the difficulties they faced.

That's the question we asked ourselves when we visited Tunbridge Wells Hospital recently.

South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) want you to nominate an ambulance service or NHS 111 hero in a new award to be presented at SECAmb’s annual staff awards.

We recently had the opportunity to chat with a group of Carers about End of Life services in North Kent.

For Stress Awareness Week, we created a space in our office for team members to share their de-stressing tips they use at work. At the end of the week this is what we got!

We've been helping decision makers to develop a new pathway for children and young people who have special educational needs.

Together with the Stroke Association and Healthwatch Medway, we have set up the Stroke Co-Design Group to ensure the voice of patients and carers is clearly heard during the design of our new stroke services in Kent & Medway.

Kent County Council have launched a public consultation to seek your thoughts on their services for older people which includes support for adults living with Dementia, physical disabilities and sensory impairments.