Healthwatch Warwickshire Annual Report 2017/18

Message from our Chief Executive, Chris Bain

It has been a year of intense activity and real change for Healthwatch Warwickshire. We have said farewell to some staff and welcomed new ones. We were delighted to have secured the Tender to deliver Healthwatch Services for the next three years, starting on the 1st November 2018. There have been three very high profile public events and an escalating program of activity working with local groups. Our Enter and View Service has entered a new and fascinating phase of activity that is making a real difference to our local communities.

We also now have a new and much improved website and have greatly strengthened our social media presence, helping us to reach even more people. None of the things that have happened over the last year would have been possible without our incredible group of committed, creative and experienced volunteers. It has been a real privilege to work with them.

There are so many exciting developments happening. Our work with seldom heard groups, our Standing Conference, which brings patient groups from across Warwickshire together, a new programme of voluntary Enter and View visits being requested by local providers, our Health and Social Care Forum taking on critical issues such as loneliness and isolation, our participation in the Homelessness Strategy Group, our place on the national steering group for the ReSPECT program, and much more.