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Advice and Information -
We've pulled together a number of services for parents in need of support for their mental health. Read more to find out where you can go to get the help you need. -
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Look here for our reports about the social care facilities we have visited and reported on... -
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Take a look at our advice article on the organisations and groups that can support you if you’re grieving. -
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Look here for our reports on Community Health facilities, Mental Health services and Dental surgeries -
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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 the facility to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out one visit; our report is available below] -
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We visited the facility find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it.
[We have carried out one visit; our report is available below] -
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We visited this facility 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 facility to find out about the services provided there, and what service users and staff think about it. -
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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 -
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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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Whether you want to get in shape, build muscle and get stronger, or simply look better in your favorite jeans, stubborn body fat can feel like an obstacle to achieving your fitness goals. -
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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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Post-Covid Syndrome (PCS), or Long Covid, is affecting an increasing number of people who have recovered from Covid infection but find it has left long term effects. -
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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 -
Since the pandemic, many people have found it easier to workout at home than go to a gym, even though gyms are open again.
Options for home workouts are available from BarBend. -
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Healthwatch Havering, with other Healthwatch and the NHS in North East London have worked to find out what changes are needed in the Local Maternity and Neonatal System to improve the service, especially for minorities and deprived communities. -
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When it comes to your health care, you must be your own best advocate. After all, you are the one who is most familiar with your body. You might wonder, though, how you can even begin to advocate for your health. Read on for ideas to get you started. -
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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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We have been working with Havering Council and the local NHS to find out what people think about the services available to people in Havering living with autism or a learning disability (or are the carer of a person) and what improvements they think are needed. -
Advice and Information -
For parents of children on the autism spectrum, the process of house hunting and moving can be particularly stressful. -
Advice and Information -
In the midst of our high-stress society, the quest for effective stress and anxiety management strategies has become paramount. Amidst the myriad of modern solutions, there's a gentle yet profound shift happening: the return to nature's apothecary. -
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We have been working with Havering Council and the NHS in Havering to find out what services are available to people in Havering who are Deaf or have a hearing impairment (or their families and friend) and what improvements are needed.
We have received comments from Deaf service users, their families, friends and informal carers and from professionals who work with them. -
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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.