News and reports

Doctors’ leaders in North Yorkshire and York are asking patients to “keep calm and be kind” when they call their GP practice.

Read our March 2021 Spring Newsletter where we discuss some of the projects we have been focusing on over the past few months.

Following a necessary change of practice as a reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic and how well that’s been received by patients, the Audiology department at Harrogate District Hospital will not be reverting back to walk-in hearing aid repair clinics.

Healthwatch England warns dental crisis shows no signs of slowing, with four in five people, 80%, struggling to access timely care during the last lockdown.

The Partnership and the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trust (WYAAT) are looking for local people to join a new citizens’ panel and share their personal experiences of waiting for elective surgery or a planned care (routine) medical procedure.

A local artist has designed a calendar to help raise money for the new children and young people’s emergency department at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.

The NHS in Bradford District and Craven is urging anyone eligible for a Covid vaccination to book an appointment without delay.

This intelligence briefing is a collation of feedback gathered by Healthwatch North Yorkshire since the middle of 2019.

GPs in the Vale of York have joined forces with a leading local charity to improve the support on offer for people who may have dementia and those who care for them.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valley have been working with local primary care and NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group to improve access to services for people with mental health conditions.

A multi-million pound investment at York Hospital will help develop a brand new two-storey extension and eight bedded resuscitation area to the Emergency Department to increase capacity and improve care for patients.

Patients receiving end of life care at home in Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland are now being given dedicated share care bags after a local hospital trust has extended its support scheme.