NHS England have announced that they will be increasing transgender services by £6.5m to improve access to care for the transgender community. This is partly due to Healthwatch Hampshire's work around the transgender community with Chrysalis, gathering their feedback and bringing awareness to service providers of recommendations of improvement for them. Click here to read the article!

Take a look at the achievements that we have made at Healthwatch Hampshire! Thank you for all your support and hard work with providing feedback about your local services. Thank you to community organisations for all the work you do helping to make your local communities a better place. This short video shows how by working together, we can take action and create a greater impact! Just imagine what we can achieve next year!

Take a look at our annual report for 2015/16 to see how Healthwatch Hampshire have listened to your views, taken action, and made an imapct to help local services to improve and to understand all of us a little better!

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Healthwatch Hampshire worked with Autism Hampshire to listen to the views and experiences of people with Autism and how they find their local NHS services. Here is a snippet of what using the service is like for them. There is a longer, more in-depth film being produced which is going to be showed to commissioners and providers of health and social care services to raise the awareness of Autism in individuals and how to help them when accessing their care services.

Healthwatch Hampshire won a community award for the work that was done with our Community Cash Fund projects, which help support patients' health and wellbeing! To see a list of previous projects, click here.

Healthwatch Hampshire talks about a new research project concerning visual impairment! We need people living in Hampshire, who are visually imapaired or blind, to take part so we can find out ways to improve your experiences with NHS services and social care services. 

Click here to listen to our radio show explaining details

Click here to view leaflet to explain details of the research and what is needed to qualify

We have heard a great deal about wheelchair services in Hampshire.  In partnership with others we have held a focus group and written to the West Hampshire CCG to ask for improvements. After continued feedback about the service we held a public meeting in December 2015. Our full report with responses from both provider and commissioner can be found here.

The mental health and wellbeing of younger people is currently an important item on the national agenda for the UK. The government's ‘Future in Mind’ report from March 2015, extra funding being put into services and, most importantly, the larger numbers of young people experiencing mental health problems make the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) a developing area in society. Healthwatch Hampshire went around gathering views from various people involved in CAMHS to hear what it is really like. 

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Healthwatch Hampshire spent time visiting lip reading groups across the county to hear from people with hearing loss what it's like for them to use the NHS and other services. We were interested to see what local services could learn and change to improve for people who struggle to hear

Healthwatch Hampshire Speak Up app now available!

Check out our new quick and easy way for you to report feedback to us about your health and social care experiences.

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The film aims to explain to the public what service redesign of health and care services is, why it is happening and how their voice can help influence what happens.