15 June 2022
Tell us how changes at your GP surgery have impacted you!
The way we access our GP Practices has changed over the past few years, with these changes potentially being permanent. You may have found that access to care has moved to a triage system and online services with a mixture of video, telephone and face-to-face appointments. We would like to hear from patients, carers, and […]
15 February 2022
Emotional Health Matters
Healthwatch Derbyshire would like to hear your views on how well your emotional wellbeing has been addressed, during recent conversations you have had with health care professionals to discuss your health.
23 December 2021
Dental Access Report
How easy it is to find an NHS dentist in Derbyshire? The impact of Covid-19 on dentistry has been severe. Dental practices are working hard to recover but patients not already on their lists are the worst hit. Healthwatch Derbyshire has listened to your feedback, we’ve researched the NHS website to understand how easy it […]
29 October 2021
Vaccine hesitancy – you said, we did
This report highlights a number of the main themes identified and what happened as a result of people sharing their views about the vaccine with us.
20 July 2021
Cancer insight
Experiences of cancer diagnosis and/or treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
8 July 2021
Vaccine hesitancy report
Healthwatch Derbyshire gathered information to understand what concerns and worries people had around taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
6 July 2021
Healthwatch Derbyshire Annual Report 2020/2021
Our 2020/2021 Annual report has just been published. It outlines what we have been up to over the past year and how we have responded to the pandemic.
22 December 2020
December 2020 Intelligence Report
A summary of reports and actions that have been undertaken by Healthwatch Derbyshire, including information on what we are currently working on, what work we are planning and updates on work we have previously undertaken. December 2020 Intelligence Report
17 December 2020
Care Home Report: Sharing good practice and suggestions
Healthwatch Derbyshire gathered information to try to understand how the Covid 19 pandemic has affected the mental and physical wellbeing of care home residents (and their relatives) and what measures have been introduced to combat these problems.
5 November 2020
Experiences of Breastfeeding Support during COVID-19
Feedback collated as part of this campaign has been categorised into five key areas, Support Provided in Hospital, Virtual Support, Community Support, Weighing and Mental Health.
28 October 2020
Experiences of Virtual Appointments during Covid-19
The ‘Experiences of Virtual Appointments During Covid-19’ report sets out the Healthwatch Derbyshire’s key findings regarding the experiences of Derbyshire County and City residents of remote appointments since the start of the pandemic.
4 April 2020
Mental Health Service Visit Report – The Hartington Unit
A pilot of ward visits to the mental health units of the Trust was carried out during 2018 and found to be mutually beneficial. The programme has been further developed with the Head of Nursing for the Hartington Unit, Chesterfield and the Radbourne Unit, Derby. It was agreed at the time that visits should take […]
4 April 2020
Mental Health Service Visit Report – The Radbourne Unit
A pilot of ward visits to the mental health units of the Trust was carried out during 2018 and found to be mutually beneficial. The programme has been further developed with the Head of Nursing for the Hartington Unit, Chesterfield and the Radbourne Unit, Derby. It was agreed at the time that visits should take […]
12 March 2020
Falls Prevention
This report represents a summary of the comments received around falls prevention.
9 March 2020
Carers Report – March 2020 Update: Derbyshire County Council Response
Understanding the quality of life for carers in Derbyshire
29 January 2020
Mystery shop exercise completed at Chesterfield Royal Hospital – January 2020 Update
This mystery shop was conducted following patient feedback about hospital appointment letters at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT.
26 January 2020
NHS Long Term Plan for Derby & Derbyshire
The Healthwatch network were commissioned by NHS England to support public engagement around the NHS LTP within each Sustainable Transformation Partnership (STP) footprint. Therefore, between March and May 2019, we engaged with people across Derby and Derbyshire about what people think should happen in order to make care better for people in the community.
23 January 2020
Dementia Report
Experiences of Health and Social Care services in Derbyshire from the perspectives of people living with dementia, their carers and family members.
16 January 2020
Healthwatch Derbyshire Intelligence Report December 2019
A summary of work undertaken by Helathwatch Derbyshire.
21 December 2019
Stubley Medical Centre
This report relates to findings gathered on the specific date of visiting the service on 12th Septemeber 2019
11 December 2019
Offender Health Report
Experiences of offenders using health services in Derbyshire
6 November 2019
Mystery shop exercise completed at Ripley Hospital
Healthwatch Derbyshire Volunteers conducted a mystery shop to assess the Phlebotomy service at Ripley Hospital.
6 November 2019
Home Care Services
We are looking to hear from people who are receiving, or have received, homecare services within the last 12 months.
22 September 2019
Healthwatch Derbyshire Intelligence Report September 2019
A summary of reports and actions that have been undertaken by Healthwatch Derbyshire.
13 September 2019
Whittington Moor Surgery Enter and View Visit
The statutory requirements of all local Healthwatch include an ‘Enter and View’ responsibility to visit any publicly funded adult health or social care services.
2 August 2019
Children and Young People – Creative Engagement
We wanted to know what barriers Children and Young Adults (CAYA) Experience to making healthy lifestyle choices and what kind of ‘tools’ they feel they would need to help encourage healthy lifestyle choices.
1 August 2019
Three Little Words Event at Chesterfield Royal Hospital
This exercise was conducted as a result of public and patient feedback collected by Chesterfield Royal Hospital and was undertaken in order to expand on information gathered as part of a mystery shop conducted by HWD volunteers. It is hoped the exercise will offer feedback that will allow the hospital to improve the experiences of hospital patients.
17 July 2019
Thornhill House Enter and View
This visit was conducted to provide a lay perspective of the service and see if standards were being maintained following a CQC inspection rating of 'outstanding' from December 2016.
11 July 2019
Experiences of using health and social care services in Derbyshire
This report has been structured to present information that will offer support to make decisions about local services.
6 June 2019
Homelessness
Over the coming months, we will be engaging with ex-offenders to explore their use of health services.