News and reports

As part of our October/November HWO 100, we produced a survey which asked people for their thoughts and experiences on their local pharmacy and ordering repeat prescriptions.

Healthwatch England have released a new report showing that Hospitals need to do more to show patients how the NHS is learning from mistakes. 

Healthwatch England has used evidence collected by the network to find out if people with dementia are getting the support they need.

The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has responded to the Reports released on the NHS 10 Year Plan.

Long waiting times and poor communication among issues found in new report on Children’s Mental Health Services in the area.

Please take a moment to read our latest review called We Matter. The report shares the first hand experiences of young people and their families who have used Children and Young People’s Mental Health services in Oldham.

We hope you like the new format for the Annual Report which sets out the work of Healthwatch Oldham over the last 12 months and includes examples of how we have engaged and supported Oldham residents.

The Royal Oldham Hospital invited Healthwatch Oldham to undertake a review of the experiences of pregnant women and their partners/birth partners attending their Antenatal Clinics.

This has been another productive year for Heathwatch Oldham. We have had an active role at the Greater Manchester level supporting the Health Devolution work, and at a local level supporting the development of Oldham Cares.

Our latest report contains findings from an engagement exercise we carried out on F11, Haematology Day Unit at Royal Oldham Hospital with 41 patients and 15 relatives and friends over four three hour sessions during February and March 2018.

Bringing together all the data collected at our July 2017 and Nov 2017 Healthwatch Forums which were focused on type 2 diabetes Prevention and Awareness as well as our health stall held at the European Islamic Centre Mosque in Werneth in Nov 2017.

Our latest report looks at the findings collected from 58 people who attended the Emergency Department at Royal Oldham Hospital and did not require admission. 22 of those people completed a more detailed follow up questionnaire.