News and reports

TCF is the provider for seven local Healthwatch across the South West. The Investing in Volunteers standard shows that the organisation values its volunteers and is committed to supporting volunteering within the organisation.

Resident (formerly, junior) doctors are due to strike tomorrow for five days from 7am, Friday 14th November to 6:59am, Wednesday 19th November.

The NHS in our area wants to hear your views on local weight management services. Share your views by completing their survey.

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.

Food insecurity is a growing issue across the UK, and is closely linked to health inequalities. We looked at the experiences of 78 people facing food insecurity across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire.

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.

The experience of unpaid carers across BathNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW).

Wiltshire residents and local pharmacists spoke to us about their experiences of Pharmacy First.

The experience of unpaid carers across BathNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), when someone they are caring for refuses to accept help that could benefit them.

Please complete our survey and share your experiences with us.

Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.

131 local Healthwatch services across England have signed a powerful open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, urging the government to reconsider proposals that would bring public voice functions under the control of local authorities and NHS bodies.