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So what does this mean for health and social care?

There are a number of organisations and websites that can support you regarding your mental health and wellbeing.

What people across West Yorkshire and Craven shared about their experience of health and care services.

This report aims to provide a picture of the many areas of work that we have undertaken between April 2020 – March 2022, including our engagement, volunteering, projects and partnerships.

We recently completed a project that focused on young people's mental health and well-being. As a result, we published a report exploring the mental health and well-being challenges young people (aged 16-24) have faced or are facing.

Mental health practitioners are working in most GP practices across North Yorkshire – to help people receive the right care and advice as quickly as possible.

Another key aspect for Esta is for healthcare professionals to understand a patient’s needs without making assumptions. As she feels this is vital in health and social care settings.

The local NHS asked Healthwatch North Yorkshire to help with the promotion of the NHS App. As a result, we have produced this report to show how we have been out there speaking to people about the benefits of using it.

Our Annual Report for 2021-22 provides a summary of the many things we have undertaken, achieved, and will continue to champion over the coming year.

Harrogate Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) is a friendly group of volunteers and professionals that work together to gather information from maternity service users in our area to shape and develop local maternity services.

The introduction of Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System gives us a unique chance to feed people’s views into the planning and running of services – especially the voices of those who are not being heard now.

A new report by Healthwatch North Yorkshire and Healthwatch York has concluded health and care providers must do more to help patients who need information in an accessible format.