News and reports

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.

Healthwatch Oldham is delighted to publish its Annual report for 2016-17.

For this Forum, we asked specific questions about people’s understanding of their own mood, diagnosis, possible treatments and services they have accessed. The answers to these survey questions have been collated and analysed to identify any trends.

The project included 209 Health Literacy Questionnaires and 7 in depth interviews undertaken with parents with children under 5 within the Failsworth GP Cluster.

We can help you if you want to make a formal complaint about a mental health service. This includes mental health services accessed within a hospital or community setting.

We can help you if you want to make a formal complaint about NHS service. This includes any services funded by the NHS and covers hospital services, GP services, dental services, pharmacies and community health services.

We can help you if you want to make a formal complaint about an NHS hospital service, or a private hospital service where the treatment is funded by the NHS.

NHS dental care is usually very good, and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong.

The care you receive from a GP is usually very good and most people don’t have any problems. But occasionally things can go wrong.