1. What should you expect when it comes to care for your teeth?

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    Four questions staff should ask you or a loved one about your oral health if you’re a care home resident, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quick guide.

  2. Dental Services in Havering

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    During October 2020, we surveyed dental practices in Havering, prompted by many reports by residents of difficulty in obtaining dental treatment during the pandemic.

    Of the 27 practices that responded, only 4 were accepting new NHS patients...

  3. Our reports on Community Health, Mental Health and Dental Services

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    Look here for our reports on Community Health facilities, Mental Health services and Dental surgeries

  4. Policies and procedures - Enter & View of health and social care facilities

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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.

  5. Policies and procedures - Safeguarding

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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.

  6. Improving health and social care in Havering...

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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.

  7. Havering and the Coronavirus pandemic - the story so far: March 2020- October 2021

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    This review examines the course of the Covid pandemic in Havering, bringing together various facts and figures into a single document that will hopefully help understanding of how the pandemic evolved in Havering.

  8. How can your pharmacy help you?

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    Did you know that pharmacies provide advice and information on minor illnesses and ailments? Take a look at how they can help you.

    Pharmacists are qualified healthcare professionals who can offer clinical advice and over-the-counter medicines.

  9. Our Friends Network Archive

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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.

  10. Save a life - Use a Defibrillator

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    A defibrillator is a machine that is used to restart someone's heart when they are suffering from cardiac arrest.

    Defibrillators are increasingly available, including at railway stations, sports centres, supermarkets, and other public places.

  11. North East London Community Insights

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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.

  12. What the new dental recovery plan means for you

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    Are you struggling to find an NHS dentist? The new dental recovery plan might help you get the dental care you need.

  13. 10 top tips to get the most out of your dental appointment

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    Everyone should be able to access good quality NHS dental services. Take a look at our top tips to help you get the most out of your next dental appointment.

  14. Policies and procedures - handling complaints

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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.

  15. Safeguarding Adults is everybody’s business

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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..

  16. Advocacy - help with getting yourself heard

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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.

  17. The Care Act 2014

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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.

  18. Because we all care - Voices of disabled residents and Covid 19 - North East London

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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.

  19. Delayed Referrals to Treatment - Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust

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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.