News and reports

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

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.

Enter and View is a statutory function of Healthwatch Warwickshire allowing us to enter health and social care premises to hear, or see, how people experience the service.

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.

Action Menopause Warwickshire and Healthwatch Warwickshire are working together to enable men to support the women in their lives who are experiencing a difficult perimenopause or menopause.

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.

My Planned Care is an NHS website that gives you advice and support while you wait and helps you to prepare for your hospital consultation, treatment, or surgery. This includes giving you information about waiting times at your hospital and other supporting and local services while you wait.

You can also find your hospital or treatment centre using the A-Z Search or a Postcode Search. In addition, you can compare average waiting times for your local hospitals.