News and reports

Read enter and view reports on care homes.

Alongside these visits we do lots of work 'behind the scenes', which includes researching, planning, and working in partnership with the Care Quality Commission and Warwickshire County Council to make sure we use your feedback to improve care. Not all feedback will end with a visit but all feedback is used to make a difference.

Compassion in Dying are calling for collaboration from government, health and voluntary and community organisations to:

Introduce an advance care planning conversation guarantee, initially through the NHS health check

Deliver a public health campaign on advance care planning

Create more opportunities for people to record what matters to them at the end of their lives

Introduce a duty of openness and transparency in end-of-life conversations to enable properly informed consent around treatment decisions

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals on end-of-life decision making under mental capacity legislation

Develop mandatory training for healthcare professionals to recognise when a person is approaching the end of their life and to support a transition to comfort care

"Coventry and Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia Strategy 2024-2029 sets out six key priority areas that will help ensure that people with dementia, as well as their carers, receive the appropriate support, information, and advice along their journey with dementia."

We are pleased to share with you our Healthwatch Warwickshire Annual Report for 2023-2024.
Included are examples of how Healthwatch Warwickshire have made a difference to our community, and how our activities will benefit people living in Warwickshire.

Read the report from our visit to Arden House Care Home on 11th June 2024

Read the report from our visit to Kenilworth Grange Home

Here are the Board minutes from the Board meeting held in March 2024.

We hold our Board meetings bi-monthly. You can read the minutes of each Board meeting below.

This is the second performance report of our new contract. Every three months we provide a report on our activities, and their impact.

This quarter we bid a fond farewell to Carla, (pictured right) as we prepare to welcome a new Engagement and Outreach Officer for Warwickshire North, in June.

Scroll to the end of this page to download the full report.

November 2023 marks the start of our new five year contract period to deliver the Healthwatch service across Warwickshire. Every three months we provide a report on our activities, and their impact.
The image to the right is a Contents list of the sections in this quarter's report.

Scroll to the end of this page to download the full report.

The Mencap Heart of England Reach Out Group are Ambassadors for Adults with Learning Disabilities.

In January 2024 we visited the group to find out what they had to say about Adult Social Care.

Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences of menopause services across Warwickshire with us.
You can read our findings in the report below.