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Over 50 people attended Healthwatch Newham’s event on Thursday 20 September, to hear the new Mayor talk about her vision.

Over 60 people attended our event on 20 September 2018 at Stratford Library, to hear the new Mayor talk about her vision.

Our team visited the foot health clinic at University of East London, Clinical Education Building, 1 Ferns Road to find out about patients’ referral pathway experiences as part of our joint Quality Assurance Project with NCCG.

As part of the Quality Matters initiative, Healthwatch England recently developed a toolkit for care services and councils to work with local Healthwatch to improve the way complaints are handled at a local level.

Our team visited the Continence Care Service in Romford Road with the purpose of finding out about patients referral pathway experiences as part of our joint Quality Assurance project with Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

This research project, carried out by Newham Older People’s Reference Group (OPRG), aimed to gather feedback from older people living Newham about their experiences of accessing GP services and what the obstacles they face in Newham.

Our team visited the Rainbow Homecare coffee morning on 14 July 2018 to engage with service users to gain feedback on their home care experiences.

The National Health Service is turning 70 on 5 July 2018.

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Our team visited this service as part of joint Quality Assurance Visits with Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

The project was carried out with the support of our Community Grants Programme.

NHS 111 is much more than a helpline – if you're worried about an urgent medical concern, you can call 111 to speak to a fully trained adviser.