News and reports

Over the last year, everyone has been spending a lot more time at home. But more time at home means you need to get creative with keeping your body moving and managing stress.

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, finance, and meetings of the Governance Committee.

This report gives the results of our survey of patients' access to GP practices, and the availability of Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) in Havering - May 2021

Our Annual Report for 2020/21 is now available...

This is our latest Annual Report

We are a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee, set up specifically to provide a Healthwatch service in Havering, under contract to Havering Council.

Plans and programmes for improvement in health and social care services are proposed by NHS organisations or the local authority. In many cases, we will have supported the development of these plans in some way.

Our latest Monthly Financial Report shows income and expenditure for last month. The report is updated on, or soon after, the first working day of the current month.

At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available

Some business decisions are taken by our Directors under delegated authority, usually on grounds of urgent or because they are considered to be of minor importance.

All Healthwatch activity is governed by legislation. Healthwatch was set up by the government in the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

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