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Four questions staff should ask you or a loved one about your oral health if you’re a care home resident, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quick guide. -
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Do you or a loved one need help with social care? Read the article below and find out answers to key questions about who can access adult social care and how to pay for it. -
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Find out about our virtual enter and view to Rossmere Park and the recommendations we put to the service following our visit. -
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Read about our findings from our enter and view visit to Clifton House and the recommendations for improvement we put forward. -
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We visited De Bruce Court care home to talk to residents and staff about the care and service on offer. Read our report and recommendations. -
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Find out about our enter and view to Rossmere Park and the views on the care the residents received. -
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Read about our enter and view to Wynyard Woods where we spoke to staff and residents. Find out about the recommendations we put forward following the visit. -
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Read about our enter and view visit to West View Lodge and what people shared with us about the care they receive there. -
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Read about our biggest projects over the last year and the engagement we have done to find out what matters to you and how you want to see services improve. -
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Read our enter and view report into West View Lodge where we spoke to staff and residents about the care on offer at the service, -
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Read our enter and view report from when we visited Queens Meadow and what staff and residents told us about the care on offer here. -
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The Aim of the visit was to look at the quality of life and standard of care of all residents including those suffering from various degrees of Dementia. -
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Read our report into dementia and the experiences people have shared with us about health and care services for people living with dementia. -
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Read about our year and the projects we have undertaken to improve services across Hartlepool, in our latest annual report. -
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Read about our year, our projects and successes over the last year in our latest annual report. -
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Read about the work we have done both on our own over the past year and collaboratively with partners in our annual report. -
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Read about this years successes and highlights in our annual report, as well as the biggest projects we have worked on over the last financial year. -
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Find out about our year and the projects we have undertaken in our latest annual report. -
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NHS community infection control team helps care home residents improve oral health and hydration -
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Find out more about our Enter & View visit to Stichell House Care Home and the recommendations we put to the service following our visit. The visit to Stichell House was the first actual visit conducted by Healthwatch Hartlepool since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. -
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Read about our findings from our latest Enter & View visit to Warrior Park Care Home in Seaton Carew. See if there were any recommendations put forward. -
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Charlotte Grange is purpose built residential care home close to the centre of town - the home registration covers old age, dementia and physical disability. Have a look at our report and find out how our latest Enter & View Visit went. -
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With the gradual lifting of Covid restrictions it has become possible to reintroduce face to face Enter & View visits and West View Lodge is our fifth "live" visit to a care home. Read our report to see our findings. -
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The Healthwatch Hartlepool Annual report for 2022/23 is now available to view or download.
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Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy supports people to raise their concerns and complaints about NHS care and treatment.
Call our helpline on 03003 038037 for information, guidance and support. 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.
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Report -
Clifton House is our first visit conducted fully in line with pre-covid visit
arrangements. This allowed us to return to our normal practice of giving
the service provider a two week window during which the visit would take
place rather than a set date and time. -
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Merlin Manor is a new, purpose built care home situated on the Bishop Cuthbert estate in Hartlepool. It is registered to provide personal and nursing care for up to 94 people. The home supports older people, those with physical disabilities or sensory impairments and people living with dementia. At the time of our visit there were 78 residents. -
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Tell us about your recent experiences with local services over the last 12 months and we can help make your voice heard. The information you provide will be stored safely and used anonymously. Take a look at our website www.healthwatchhartlepool.co.uk to find out what we did as a result of people’s feedback last year.
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People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register. -
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Find out what support is available to help you when travelling to your GP, hospital or other NHS services. -
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With more and more appointments happening online, we've put together some tips on how to get the most out of the virtual health and care appointments both for patients and health and care professionals. -
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Our report looks at what you told us about whether you could access your GP and the barriers you faced. -
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Read our report into the consultation we conducted with carers about health and social care issues that have an impact on their wellbeing. -
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Find out about the problems people are facing when trying to get an appointment with their GP. -
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Read our report into the barriers faced by deaf people who are trying to access health and social care services across Hartlepool. -
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Healthwatch Hartlepool recognises that many people in Hartlepool are significantly affected by health inequalities and high levels of ill-health. -
Advice and Information -
To book an appointment for the 7 Day GP Access Service, please contact your own GP surgery first! -
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Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, The NHS bowel cancer screening kit detects signs of cancer before you notice anything wrong. Detecting it at the earliest stage makes it up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated. So if you're aged 60 to 74 (lowering to 50 by 2025), live in England and registered with a GP practice, you’ll be sent a kit in the post automatically, every two years. The kit is quick and simple to complete and can be done in the privacy of your own bathroom using the step-by-step instructions on the box. You only need to collect one tiny sample of poo using the plastic stick provided, pop it in the sample bottle and post it for free, to be tested.
The test works by checking for tiny traces of blood, which may not be visible to the naked eye. Blood in your poo is one of the signs of bowel cancer but does not always mean cancer. Instead, it could be a sign of piles or polyps (growths in the bowel). Polyps are not cancer but could develop into cancer over time.
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Are you aged 16-25?
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Healthwatch Hartlepool Newsletter for September is now available to download
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched an NHS campaign to encourage members of the public who could be living with undiagnosed high blood pressure to get their blood pressure checked at a participating pharmacy.
The campaign, backed by British Heart Foundation, Stroke Association, Heart Research UK, Blood Pressure UK, May Measurement Month, British Society for Heart Failure, and more, warns that there are often ‘no clues’ about who might have high blood pressure.
Who can get a free blood pressure check
You can get a free blood pressure check if you:
are aged 40 or over and live in England
You cannot get a free blood pressure check if you:
already have high blood pressure and have had your blood pressure checked by a healthcare professional in the past 6 months
What happens when you get your blood pressure checked
A pharmacist, or member of the pharmacy team, will wrap a blood pressure cuff around your upper arm to measure your blood pressure. They will then share the result with you.
Depending on the result, they might:
give you advice to support healthy living
give you a blood pressure monitor to take home with you and return later advise you to see a GP
If you’re registered with a GP surgery, your GP health record will be updated.
To find a pharmacy near you that offers free blood pressure checks, click on the link below!
Or pop into your local pharmacy and ask about a `Free blood pressure check.`
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GP Practice services have changed to meet increasing demand and respond to local health care needs.
Healthwatch Hartlepool have produced a booklet called "Top Tips for Accessing your GP Practise", that gives advice and information on the many services available at your local GP practice.
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Do you struggle to speak to your doctor about your medical concerns? You’re not alone. Take a look at our top tips to make the most out of your GP appointment.