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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] -
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 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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
News -
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. -
Advice and Information -
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". -
Advice and Information -
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. -
Advice and Information -
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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In June 2018, we published a report about Services in Havering for people who have a visual impairment, which followed a survey we had carried out of people who had a visual impairment. -
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In 2013, it emerged that a computer error during the migration of data from one computer system to another had resulted in delays for a significant number of patients in receiving treatment at Queen’s Hospital, Romford and King George Hospital. -
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Earlier this year, we joined Healthwatch across London to discover what Londoners thought about the London Ambulance Service (LAS). The LAS commissioned this work as part of the background to developing their five-year Strategic Plan for 2023-2028. -
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In December 2022, we joined with Healthwatch across North East London to carry out an extensive survey on behalf of NHS North East London to find out the demand for, and nature of, culturally sensitive Maternity care provision with North East London. -
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The support on offer for patients at their GP practice is expanding across Greater London, with thousands more healthcare staff working in local communities.
While people will always be able to see their family doctor when they need to, the NHS is giving people more options with the type of healthcare professional they can see at their general practice.