News and reports

On Thursday 14th November we held our Annual General meeting online via Zoom. The agenda for our AGM included an overview of our Annual Report from 2023 to 2024, as well as HWW’s Financial Report and appointment of auditors.

Read the report from our visit to Canning Court Care Home on 15th October 2024

Do you or someone you care for need help with daily living tasks or getting out and about? Read the article below to find out answers to key questions about adult social care.

In July 2024, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned Lord Darzi to conduct an immediate and independent investigation of the NHS. The review was published on Thursday 12 September.

Lord Darzi wrote a letter to the Secretary of Sate to accompany his review. The letter includes a summary of Lord Darzi's 28 findings and reported "Nothing that I have found draws into question the principles of a health service that is taxpayer funded, free at the point of use, and based on need not ability to pay".

This is the third performance report of our new contract. Every three months we provide a report on our activities, and their impact.

This quarter we welcome Shabina (pictured right) as our new Engagement and Outreach Officer for Warwickshire North.

Scroll to the end of this page to download the full report.

Here are the Board minutes from the Board meeting held in May 2024.

Read our latest enter and view reports on care homes we have visited in 2023.

Alongside these visits we do lots of work 'behind the scenes', which includes researching, planning, and working in partnership with the Care Quality Commission and Warwickshire County Council to make sure we use your feedback to improve care. Not all feedback will end with a visit but all feedback is used to make a difference.

Read our latest enter and view reports on care homes we have visited in 2024.

Alongside these visits we do lots of work 'behind the scenes', which includes researching, planning, and working in partnership with the Care Quality Commission and Warwickshire County Council to make sure we use your feedback to improve care. Not all feedback will end with a visit but all feedback is used to make a difference.

Enter and View is a statutory function of Healthwatch Warwickshire allowing us to enter health and social care premises to hear, or see, how people experience the service.

Compassion in Dying are calling for collaboration from government, health and voluntary and community organisations to:

Introduce an advance care planning conversation guarantee, initially through the NHS health check

Deliver a public health campaign on advance care planning

Create more opportunities for people to record what matters to them at the end of their lives

Introduce a duty of openness and transparency in end-of-life conversations to enable properly informed consent around treatment decisions

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals on end-of-life decision making under mental capacity legislation

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals to recognise when a person is approaching the end of their life and to support a transition to comfort care

"Coventry and Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia Strategy 2024-2029 sets out six key priority areas that will help ensure that people with dementia, as well as their carers, receive the appropriate support, information, and advice along their journey with dementia."

We are pleased to share with you our Healthwatch Warwickshire Annual Report for 2023-2024.
Included are examples of how Healthwatch Warwickshire have made a difference to our community, and how our activities will benefit people living in Warwickshire.