On 11th September, our Voluntary, Community & Faith Sector Health & Wellbeing Forum focused on people’s experiences of the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) assessment and how, with Sheffield CCG and our local authority, we can improve the process
Over a number of years, concerns have been raised with NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) about the future of two Sheffield care homes – Birch Avenue and Woodland View, and whether adequate funding is in place to guarantee their future.
We visited the Outpatients Department at Sheffield Children’s Hospital on the 6th September 2018 and asked people to fill out a survey about their experience
For the past three years, mental health has been the number one health and social care issue for the Healthwatch network. Take a look to see what people have told Healthwatch about their experiences.
Challenge Sheffield and SODIT work with people with lived experience of mental health distress and used their grant to hold the Sheffield Mental Health Challenge Day.
The Health Team at Zest work closely with Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) women and had been made aware of a number of issues in relation to how and why the women access GPs and other health services.
City of Sanctuary Sheffield used our Speak Up grant to run two health events for asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield in May 2018, to listen to their experiences of local health services.
Shipshape is a community health organisation based in Sharrow. They offer a range of one-to-one and group health and wellbeing services. Shipshape received a grant to gather the views and experiences from people who are supported by their services.
Burton Street Foundation used their #SpeakUp Small Grant to ask their clients, people with mild/ moderate learning difficulties, about their experience of their local GP surgery.
The Darnall Community Development Centre (DCDC) provided workshops with their #SpeakUp Small Grant, aimed at young males to discuss their experiences and views of accessing, or reasons for not accessing, local health and mental health services.
Disability Awareness with Sport (DAWS) runs DAWS Community Gym in Hackentorpe. They support people with disabilities to improve their health and wellbeing, and wanted to better understand their clients’ experiences of health services.