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NHS reshapes community health services to improve access to the right care
From 1 April 2026, NHS community health services delivered across the region will operate as Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Community Health.
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Complete our survey - Breaking Barriers: Improving Access to Cancer Services – Including Screening
A new collaboration has launched which aims to uncover inequalities and barriers to accessing cancer care and shape how services can be improved for the most vulnerable people in Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire.
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Sign our petition to review the decision to abolish independent local Healthwatch
Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.
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Complete our blood pressure survey
We need your views about how to encourage more people to get their blood pressure checked - particularly those who are at risk of having high blood pressure.
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Unpaid carers: complete our survey
We want to know what happens when someone rejects being given care and the impact that this has on their carer. We are also interested in what it is like to access care on behalf of someone else and the barriers that carers face.
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NHS industrial action: 7th April to 13th April 2026
Resident doctors (previously called junior doctors) are striking between 7am on Tuesday 7th April until 7am on Monday 13th April.
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NHS industrial action: 17th December to 22nd December 2025
Resident doctors (previously called junior doctors) are striking between 7am on Wednesday 17th December until 7am on Monday 22nd December.
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Provider of Healthwatch Wiltshire awarded 'Investing in Volunteers' standard
TCF is the provider for seven local Healthwatch across the South West. The Investing in Volunteers standard shows that the organisation values its…
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Latest reports and publication
Report: What parents told us about childhood vaccinations
Parents and carers spoke to us about their decisions to vaccinate - or not vaccinate - their children.
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Report: Empowering the patient - how to increase the understanding and testing of high blood pressure
High blood pressure (also called hypertension) affects around one in three adults in the UK - yet most people don’t know they have it. You can have high blood pressure and feel completely well, but over time it increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease.
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