News and reports

By seeking help from your GP and getting an early diagnosis can get the right support in place to live well with dementia.

Find out how COVID-19 impacted people's mental health in Stoke-on-Trent.

Strut Safe is a free phone service in the UK to help people who need to feel safe and supported when walking home late at night.

Find out people's experiences of the Royal Stoke University Hospital fracture clinic.

Our call for NHS dental reforms has once again been featured in the media.

The Hospital Services Survey part 1 consisted of 10 core questions. There was a mixture between multiple choice questions and open text for subjective comments and opinions. The structure of the survey is mirrored within the report discussion through a breakdown of headlines that each relate to the respective survey questions.

Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the former suspension of the Enter and View Programme, Healthwatch Stoke-on-Trent took the opportunity to pilot a series of virtual visits to ensure that public conversations, experiences and concerns can continually be shared with their local Healthwatch.

Find out to what extent canceled or postponed hospital appointments had on patients during the Coronavirus Pandemic.

We organised an announced virtual visit to Dresden House between 18 October and 5 November 2021. Read all about our visit in this short summary report which details a background, the methodology utilised, an outline of the findings and a selection of experiences from participants.

Find out how primary care and community services are meeting people's needs in Stoke-on-Trent.

The HWE project was a follow up project after an online survey was undertaken about access to primary care at the start of the pandemic. The initial survey found that people were generally happy accessing their GP remotely, but as a survey that was online it potentially did not reach people who were actually digitally excluded and struggling to access primary care.

How has the increasing use of digital health services, affected people's access to care?