1. Access to GP Services

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    We received intelligence through engagement activities and our Information & Signposting service that people were experiencing difficulties in making appointments at their GP surgeries.

  2. Evaluation of Patient Experience at the South Tees Access & Response (STAR) Scheme

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    The STAR pilot extends evening and weekend opening times for patients from 6.30pm to 9.30pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 8pm on weekends and bank holidays to ensure patients get the right care, first time through a single point of access.

  3. A Focus on Hearing Loss

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    During August 2017 we received information from Middlesbrough Deaf Centre, highlighting issues affecting some of their service users in accessing various health and social care services.

  4. GP Practice Visits

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    During September 2017 we visited 41 GP Practices across South Tees.We provided them with our new contact details and information leaflets, anticipating that this information would be displayed throughout every practice in the area.

  5. Patient Awareness of Urgent Care and Out of Hours Services

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    This report seeks to evaluate patient and public awareness of urgent care and out of hours services within South Tees and to determine if people are aware of alternative pathways available to them.

  6. GP Surgery Feedback: Woodside Surgery, Loftus

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    We received intelligence suggesting that there was an issue with the appointment system at Woodside Surgery. Following on from this we carried out engagement work to see if other people had similar experiences.

  7. How can a GP Practice raise awareness of caring roles?

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    This case study explores how a local GP Practice decided to be more proactive in identifying people on their register who were responsible for caring for others, because many of them don't identify as a carer.

  8. Experiences of GP access, Ongoing Treatments and Wellbeing Throughout the Pandemic

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    In October 2020 we launched our GPs, Ongoing Treatments and Wellbeing survey.

  9. Healthwatch Redcar and Cleveland Engagement - Ravenscar Surgery

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    We received feedback through our information and signposting service regarding Ravenscar Surgery which included suggestions for updates to the website and improvements to the patient experience.

  10. I need to see a doctor! Tees Valley Youthwatch Consultation with Young People’s Report

    Report -

    Tees Valley Youthwatch were asked to provide feedback on a Document that was produced by Healthwatch Middlesbrough and Healthwatch Redcar and Cleveland, called “I need to see a Doctor!”

  11. Women's Health Report

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    This report highlights all of the work we have carried out so far.

    It includes feedback from our menopause event, responses from consultation surveys and identifies improvements to support services that are required locally which would improve experiences.

    The full report is available to download below

    If you need this report in a different format, please get in touch:

    healthwatchsouthtees@pcp.uk.net

    Call: 0800 118 1691 / Text only: 07451 288 789

  12. GP Resource Evaluation

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    In August 2023 we produced our GP Resource in collaboration with a range of professionals in response to the most common questions we heard from local people. We also wanted to raise awareness of the changes that are now in place in GP practice teams, to help people understand how to make the most of the range of options available from this service.

    Following the launch, we received many positive comments from health care professionals. We wanted to find out if our GP resource was helpful to local people as well as professionals. With this purpose, we carried out a number of engagement activities in order to collect evidence of the impact of the resource on local people.

    The full report is available to download below

    If you need this report in a different format, please get in touch:

    healthwatchsouthtees@pcp.uk.net

    Call: 0800 118 1691 / Text only: 07451 288 789

  13. GP Practice Website Analysis

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    This report has been completed following a review of 38 GP Practice websites across the South Tees region.

  14. Roadshow Report

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    In September 2023, Healthwatch South Tees (HWST) welcomed two new Engagement & Events Officers to the team as a way to increase awareness of our function with South Tees communities and encourage additional feedback of health and care services to inform our work.

  15. Your Future Your Care

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    As part of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council’s Fair Cost to Care Exercise, we worked in collaboration to produce a survey.

  16. Growing Older Planning Ahead

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    Tees Valley Healthwatch Network worked in partnership with North East Commissioning Support on behalf of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) with the aim of delivering a local review in response to the national requirement to improve the planning process for families, who care for an adult with a learning disability, when they can no longer support their family member to stay at home.

    The particular focus of this project is to improve support for families, carers, and older people with learning disability (aged 40+ to reflect the early onset of chronic health conditions such as dementia) by producing effective recommendations.

    We have produced a South Tees report of our findings from our engagement with adults with a learning disability, their carers and professionals.

    The Tees Valley Combined Report can also be found below.

    If you need this report in a different format, please get in touch:

    healthwatchsouthtees@pcp.uk.net

    Call: 0800 118 1691 / Text only: 07451 288 789