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Advice and Information -
Take a look at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) quick guide to discussing and planning support following a dementia diagnosis. -
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Look here for our reports about the social care facilities we have visited and reported on... -
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We have visited Abbcross Nursing Home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below.
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Our policies and procedures set out how we carry out our activities. These policies describe how we arrange, carry out and report on our Enter &View visits to health and social care facilities. -
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Our policies and procedures set out how we carry out our activities. This policy describes how we deal with safeguarding issues. -
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Who are the Havering Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) and why they are important? -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below.
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out several visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
Report -
We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out four visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
Report -
We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below] -
Report -
We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out three visits; all of our reports are available below] -
Report -
We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out four visits; all of our reports are available below] -
Report -
We visited this home to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out two visits; all of our reports are available below] -
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Last year, the Havering Safeguarding Adults Board asked us to find out what local people understand about safeguarding and its implications.
We have now completed another survey - see below.. -
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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. -
Advice and Information -
If you find it difficult to express yourself, and you don’t have a friend or relative who can support you, Havering Integrated Advocacy service can help make sure your voice is heard. -
Advice and Information -
Changing unhealthy habits is never easy; there may be many factors at play, such as a physical ailment, a mood disorder such as depression, or a busy schedule that prevents a person from engaging in healthy practices. -
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The Care Act 2014 underpins all the welfare work done by local authorities, setting out in one place, local authorities’ duties in relation to assessing people’s needs and their eligibility for publicly funded care and support. -
Advice and Information -
We regularly send emails to our Friends Network to keep people updated about changes to local health and social care services and facilities, and to pass on other information and news.
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Over several months in 2021, at the request of the North East London CCG, we worked with all of the Healthwatch organisations covering North East London to find out how disabled people had coped during the Covid pandemic. -
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The Richmond Group of Charities’ physical activity coalition - Movement for All - has developed a new physical activity programme aimed at people living with multiple long term health conditions. -
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The Government has now published its new social care plan in a white paper, "People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform". -
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There are an estimated half a million fragility fractures in the UK each year, many of which could be prevented with earlier diagnosis. Osteoporosis is a condition that weakens bones, making them fragile and more likely to break. -
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Healthwatch across North East London came together to deliver this additionally commissioned project seeking insight into GP services provided to Care Home residents, in each of the eight boroughs in the region. -
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Healthwatch Havering works with the other Healthwatch organisations that together represent people across North East London (the City of London, Barking & Dagenham, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) to gather Community Insights and to present them to NHS North East London, the eight local authorities and health and social care provider organisations across the region. -
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, finance, and meetings of the Governance Committee. -
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, finance, and meetings of the Governance Committee. -
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, finance, and meetings of the Governance Committee. -
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, finance, and meetings of the Governance Committee. -
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available.
The Company AGM took place on the same day; the AGM minutes are also available.
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available
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Our policies and procedures set out how we carry out our activities. These policies describe how we manage our organisation. -
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Our policies and procedures set out how we carry out our activities. These policies describe how we protect the privacy and personal information of the people we deal with. -
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Our policies and procedures set out how we carry out our activities. These policies describe how we deal with complaints - both those against us, and those we receive about service providers. -
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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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Our Annual Reports give an account of our activities in the year (April to March) just passed. They are published around the end of June.
Our annual Report for 2022/23 is now available.
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At this meeting, the Board received information about current activities and concerns, and finance.
The Finance Report presented at the meeting is also available -
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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. -
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We are publicly funded through Havering Council (although we also generate some income in other ways). Details of our income and expenditure are available.