News and reports

Our new report – GP website check-up – is out today and looks at how easy it is to find information on GP websites across North Yorkshire.

Healthwatch North Yorkshire focuses on the access to health and social care services for rural communities.

Acute services at Scarborough Hospital face a series of challenges, requiring a review of how health and care provision is delivered.

This briefing focuses on dentistry, which once again has featured prominently in national media due to work of Healthwatch England, and a topic we at Healthwatch North Yorkshire have been raising for several months now.

This briefing focuses on the COVID-19 vaccine.

People across North Yorkshire have been helping to improve health and social care services by sharing their experiences during the past five months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This briefing focuses on Test and Trace, drawing on the results of our most recent COVID-19 briefing published in November, and updated from feedback gathered this month.

In the past 12 months, we have received 59 pieces of feedback regarding dentistry.

People in North Yorkshire have been sharing their experiences accessing care and support during the COVID-19 pandemic to help improve services.

North Yorkshire Council asked Healthwatch North Yorkshire to research the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ+ residents in accessing mental health and healthcare services.

Over the last six months Healthwatch North Yorkshire recognised the need for a fundamental restructure of the organisation – all during a year of changes, challenges and the unknown. Read more about our year in our annual report 2019/2020.

A consultation was launched to help shape the future of key services at the Friarage hospital.