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Opening Doors: Enhancing Hospital Visits for Patients, Visitors, Carers, and Staff
Leaving Hospital: experiences of those needing reablement support at home or intermediate care is out now!
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Giving a voice to people who need it most
We’re working creatively across Kirklees and Calderdale to give a voice to people who feel unheard and/or who find it hard to access current ways of giving feedback to health and social care services.
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Healthwatch Kirklees and Healthwatch Calderdale were asked by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) to engage with people in our areas regarding the current visiting options at Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. Healthwatch and CHFT wanted to know what patients, visitors, carers, and staff feel about hospital visiting. They plan to use this feedback to shape the future visiting policy set by CHFT.
The engagement project gathered detailed feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including patients, visitors, carers, and hospital staff. The objective was to identify areas for improvement in visiting times, visitor numbers, and accessibility, as well as to uncover potential barriers faced by different demographic groups.
Opening Doors: Enhancing Hospital Visits for Patients, Visitors, Carers, and Staff report
Enter and View CRH Discharge Areas Report
As a part of our Enter and View programme, we made three announced visits to the discharge areas at Calderdale Royal Hospital.
We observed the service and engaged with patients and staff members to gather feedback on:
- Patients’ thoughts on hospital discharge
- The discharge area experience
- What’s working well in the discharge areas
- Any suggested areas for improvements
This report outlines our findings and recommendations – Enter and View CRH Discharge Areas Report
Let your voice be heard
Between now and 30 November Healthwatch are taking an essential step to ensure that all women in our community are represented in how the health and social care system supports your health, wellbeing and ability to self-care.
We’d like to invite women, girls and those who identify as female over the age of 16 to come and talk to us about:
- Health Management: How are you currently managing your health and wellbeing?
- Confidence Levels: How confident do you feel in your ability to self-care effectively?
- Ideas for Support: What do you think is needed to help women look after their health and wellbeing?
Taking part is easy
It’s quick and easy to share your experiences
- Just click on the following link and let your thoughts be heard.
- Prefer to chat on the phone? Call our friendly team on Kirklees 01924 450 379 or Calderdale 01422 412 141
- Or send your views via email to info@healthwatchkirklees.co.uk
Thank you, your voices matter and you can find out how our engagement projects make a difference on in our project pages. Your feedback will be kept anonymous and gives health and social care service managers the information they need to make changes everyone in our community will benefit from. Find out more and read the Healthwatch self care secrets.
