News and reports

Healthwatch Northamptonshire and the Northamptonshire Young Leaders carried out a survey on the wellbeing of young persons aged 11-25 across the county

There are new duties for local authorities, as well as changes to how care is charged for, who has to pay and how much people will have to pay towards their care.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire has published a report on patient experience of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KGH)

Healthwatch Northamptonshire has been working in partnership with Northamptonshire County Council on a pilot project to monitor the quality of home (domiciliary) care services.

Working in partnership with the local NHS, we wanted to find out what patients and staff thought of current services and how they could be improved.

We asked 173 people in the A&E waiting area at NGH about what other services they had tried to access before going to A&E and what their experience was

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Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HNW) wants to ensure that the views of children, young people and families are gathered and heard and positively influence current changes in health care for children and young people.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire held a mental health workshop in May to understand the changes happening in mental health services currently and to ensure service users and carers are involved

Healthwatch Northamptonshire conducted an engagement campaign, between October and December 2013, with children, young people and families to inform plans to re-design children’s community health services.

Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HWN) was asked to provide the Care Quality Commission (CQC) with any information and intelligence we held about the experiences and views of people who have received care at Northampton General Hospital

During September and October 2013, Healthwatch Northamptonshire ran a campaign called “Make Your Voice Count”.