As your local health and social care champion, we want to hear about your experience of mental health support for adults with autism and how this could be improved.
Access to care is the main concern people have shared with Healthwatch in the past year. A new report by Healthwatch England looking at health and social care from the patients' perspective has warned that we risk "a two-tier health and care system" unless the NHS takes faster action to tackle access issues.
Last year (April 2022-March 2023), we supported over 2,500 people to have their say on health and social care and to get information and advice about local services.
As local health and care champion, we have published a report looking at patient experiences of booking GP appointments by phone, resulting in recommendations to help improve access to GP care in the city.
As Healthwatch marks its tenth anniversary this week, Healthwatch Wolverhampton joins the 152 local Healthwatch across England to appeal for more people to feedback on NHS care.
With spiralling costs of living, Healthwatch England is warning people are making changes to how they use health and social care services, which can have an adverse impact on their health and wellbeing.
As the new Black Country Integrated Care System becomes a statutory body and formally starts work on 1 July 2022, Healthwatch Wolverhampton looks forward to a productive partnership between services and the public to make care better.