News and reports

We called all GP practices in Wolverhampton to understand the public's experience of booking appointments and accessing care.

The City of Wolverhampton Council is developing an All Age Carers Strategy. Carers aged 18–25 years, adult carers and professionals are being invited to have their say and help shape a new strategy which will aim to ensure the right support and services are in place for them and the people that they look after.

The first of several coproduction workshops will be taking place on Thursday 9 December 2021 from 9.00am to 12.30pm to allow people to help design what the Integrated Care System (ICS) engagement approach should look and feel like across the Black Country as part of a strategy for working with people and communities.

Today marks the start of Orange Wolverhampton, the annual campaign from 25 November to 10 December to end interpersonal violence and raise awareness of the help and support available to victims in Wolverhampton.

The City of Wolverhampton Council are inviting professionals from organisations who come into contact with, or provide support to carers in Wolverhampton, to have their say to help shape a new strategy which will aim to ensure the right support and services are in place for them, and the people that they look after.

The experiences of people who were more likely to be digitally excluded when accessing primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year marks the fourth annual Advocacy Awareness Week (1-7 November 2021) and the theme this year is #AdvocacyinAction. We want to remind people about what advocacy is, how it works best and how it has already helped people in our communities to live their lives.

Your mental wellness is as important as your physical health but seeking help can be daunting. Here's what to expect when you seek support for your mental health.

In this Annual Report we share our key challenges and successes, how we responded to COVID-19 and continued to gather the views of the public during the pandemic.

Pride month is a celebration of the LGBT+ community and is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall riots in 1969 and the subsequent work of countless people to further the rights of LGBT+ people around the world since then, making society a more equal and just place to live for all of us.

NHS Digital have recently announced plans to allow an NHS system to extract patient data from GP surgeries in England. The new data-sharing system was due to start in July, with the public being able to opt-out but has now been pushed back to 1 September.

Healthwatch England explored vaccine confidence amongst people from African, Bangladeshi, Caribbean, and Pakistani backgrounds to understand the barriers to vaccination and to make sure key lessons are taken forward for future public health campaigns.