News and reports

Nicola works in the Patient Experience team based at James Cook University Hospital. The aim is to work with and learn from patients, carers and their family members experiences. This helps improve outcomes and make effective changes to services.

Both Katie's work for Triage who are an employability and training provider working with people to improve their mental health.

The Reasonable Adjustment Campaign has been developed by the North East & Cumbria Learning Disability Network. It’s aims are to:
Raise awareness of people’s rights to reasonable adjustments
Raise awareness of the legal obligation of health & care services to provide reasonable adjustments
Support health & care services to provide reasonable adjustments
Support health & care services to document and share reasonable adjustments

The video features Paul James, Learning Disability and Autism Advisor Lived by Experience, at a consultation with GP Dr Hannah Brown, GP and subject matter expert for the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag.

Paul James, Learning Disability and Autism Advisor Lived by Experience at NHS England, talks about the benefits of the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag for people with a learning disability.

Redcar and Cleveland Council have commissioned Healthwatch to evaluate their Adult Social Care Services. This short report is to provide context into the work carried out to review and expand the current mapping information about groups and services throughout Redcar and Cleveland.

Kathy is an Allied Health Professional, Doctoral student, and a service user of Health and Social Care Services.

Redcar and Cleveland Council have commissioned Healthwatch to evaluate their Adult Social Care Services. This project is to review ASC customer satisfaction questionnaires, with recommendations on how to increase sampling and return rates.

Sandra works as a Growing Older Coordinator for the GO Project at the Citizen Advice Bureau based in Redcar.

As part of our priorities for 2024-2025 priorities, we are conducting a number of GP Roadshow activities across South Tees to share information that will help people get the best out of their health and care services.

As well as increasing awareness of Healthwatch South Tees, workshops were held to identify what health and care services these communities use, the barriers they face in accessing these services and most importantly discussing solutions to remove them.

Our report includes a summary of the key findings and recommendations to improve access to services.

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