News and reports

A roundup of what we've been hearing recently - good and bad - and what we'd like to change.

At Healthwatch, we believe that everyone deserves fair and equal access to health and care services.

We listen to your feedback to tell the NHS and social care decision-makers so that they know what is working well and what needs to improve.

Healthwatch visits social care settings to hear how services work for residents and where they could be improved.

Healthwatch North Yorkshire has been working hard to ensure that everyone, especially those with disabilities, impairments, or sensory loss, can easily access and understand healthcare information.

Listening to experiences to make healthcare services better.

Using your experiences and feedback to make healthcare services better.

We listen to your feedback to tell the NHS and social care decision-makers so that they know what is working well and what needs to improve.

The local NHS wants to improve end-of-life care by learning from the experiences of those who use these services and their loved ones.

Because of your help we’ve raised awareness of some key issues, and championed change where it’s needed. Take a closer look at the difference we made together in 2023 and 2024.

Experiences of care for mother and baby at home and in the community can be a struggle, but thanks to your feedback, we're asking for more to be done to make things better.

Using experiences of care of people locally, we wanted to make sure that their views are listened to and care is made better.