News and reports

A joint report by Healthwatch Halton and Healthwatch Warrington has called for improvements when patients are discharged from hospital.

The new Pharmacy First scheme enables your local pharmacy to treat some common conditions with prescription-only medicines, without you visiting your GP. Find out everything you need to know.

Healthwatch Warrington is proud to announce we have published our Annual Report 2023/24, containing highlights from the past year and details of the year ahead.

Each year, Healthwatch Warrington produces an annual report to showcase our achievements over the year and demonstrate how we have been working to improve health and social care services in Warrington.

Warrington Disability Partnership, the organisers of the UK’s and possibly, the worlds, largest voluntary led pan disability exhibition are finalising the plans for this year’s 33rd annual event that will be the finale of a week of seven complementary events.

The Warrington Palliative Virtual Ward pilot commenced in April 2022 and was the first national community Palliative Virtual Ward. This programme was aligned with NHS England’s national ambition for Integrated Care Systems to work towards the comprehensive development of virtual ward beds.

Norman Holding has been appointed as the interim Chair of the Healthwatch Warrington Independent Strategic Advisory Board. The news follows the recent departure of Pat McLaren who resigned at the end of May.

Talking Points are for Warrington residents to access face-to-face information and guidance about the issues that matter to them. Talking Points are designed to be easily accessible within the community, with sessions now established in Birchwood, Penketh, the town centre and Latchford.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals Trust has introduced a new system that allows patients to access their hospital outpatient appointments online, via the NHS App.

There is a worrying rise in whooping cough, officials warn, external, with 553 cases in England recorded in January alone and high numbers in Wales. The best way to prevent whooping cough is to get vaccinated. In the UK the vaccine is only offered to children.

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside has developed a Dental Improvement Plan 2024 – 2026 which aims to improve access to routine and urgent NHS dental care for the population of Cheshire and Merseyside.

After our Priorities Survey, in which we asked local residents to rank our top 6 priorities in order of their preference, we have outlined our work plan for the top three. This work plan explores our aims, objectives and rationale.