News and reports

The Healthwatch Hartlepool mini bulletin for June is now is here!

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The Healthwatch Hartlepool Annual report for 2024/25 is now available to view or download.

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Please click below to view the ‘online’ edition of the TSAB May Newsletter.

TSAB Newsletter - May 2025 | Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board



This edition features:

NEW: Collaborative Working and Information Sharing between Professionals to Protect Adults Guidance
Refreshed Documents – High Risk Adults Panel (HRAP) Terms of Reference, Guidance and Referral Form
‘Spotlight On’ Carers Week and Elder Abuse Day
Training Courses – Dates available until December 2025

Healthwatch Hartlepool & Stagecoach Partnership Celebrate with a Coffee Morning event.
Following last year’s highly successful celebration of World Mental Health Day. On 9th April we held a coffee morning in the lounge at Greenbank to meet the recipients of money raised through our partnership.

We invited Stagecoach Hartlepool who came along to hand over cheques to two local charities, The Haven, making a difference and LilyAnn’s Wellbeing.

On 28th January, Healthwatch Hartlepool facilitated a workshop which gave the public the opportunity to take part in the biggest ever national conversation about the future of the NHS.

In November 2024, the government launched 'Change NHS: help build a health service fit for the future', with the aim of getting as many people as possible involved in informing their 10 Year Health Plan for England.

Healthwatch Hartlepool Newsletter for March 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.`

We need your views and feedback to help shape future services, including planning the next phase of the NHS’s dental recovery plan in the region.
So if you are living in the North East and North Cumbria, have recent experiences with using or trying to access dental services, then share your experiences with us here.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, local Healthwatch are working together to tackle this important issue. You can find more information about our Healthwatch Network here.
The survey closes on 31 March 2024 and as a thank you for your time we are offering £100 of Love-to-Shop vouchers to a lucky prize draw winner.
If you require a paper copy or have any questions about this survey, please contact 0800 254 5552 or email yoursay@healthwatchhartlepool.co.uk

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The Healthwatch Hartlepool March 2025 mini bullitin is here! Click on the link to read or download!

The Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board works in partnership with a wide range of organisations, to safeguard and promote the well-being and independence of adults at risk of abuse or neglect. (Safeguarding means “protect from harm”). We want to hear from you to help us plan our work for the next year. Please take a few minutes to fill in the survey below from your point of view – the form can be completed on someone’s behalf if the person is asked for their views. The survey is completed anonymously, so if you have any specific issues or queries about the survey that you would like to raise with us, please contact us directly by emailing tsab.businessunit@stockton.gov.uk. Questions marked with an asterix are required fields

Healthwatch Hartlepool Newsletter for September is now available to download
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The Healthwatch Hartlepool Newsletter for July is now available to download!