News and reports

The Chair of Healthwatch Manchester has released a statement regarding the result of the Dash Report and subsequent government plan to abolish all 153 local Healthwatch organisations.

131 Local Healthwatch Services Unite to Oppose Government Plans to Undermine Independent Public Voice

We are happy to release our 2024-2025 Annual Report which contains information about our work over the last year.

Healthwatch Manchester are currently conducting a large piece of work individually assessing each GP Practice in Manchester for their understanding of and compliance with the Accessible Information Standard. These results have been placed into a league table that you can find at the bottom of this article.

We recently performed an Enter and View style visit to the Southmoor Suite located in the Accident & Emergency Department in Wythenshawe Hospital.

We recently performed an Enter and View at The Robert Darbishire Practice in Rusholme, Manchester.

Healthwatch Manchester have created a new YouTube channel containing all of our old videos as well as some fantastic new ones.

Healthwatch Manchester have completed a report detailing the experience of Manchester citizens when in receipt of an adaptation in their home.

Healthwatch Manchester have completed a comparison report between our two Enter and View Visits to Park House and North View.

In the past five years we have seen a gradual decline in the provision of NHS dental services across the country. At Healthwatch Manchester we have struggled throughout this period to get people into NHS dental services as more and more dentists within their practices choose to go wholly private. This has meant that patients have been forced to join the queue for an alternative dentist at their own practice or seek NHS dental treatment elsewhere. This article presents the latest update from NHS England regarding dental treatment on the NHS.

The Healthwatch Manchester team conducted an Enter and View visit to the inpatient wards at North View, located on the North Manchester General Hospital site, to speak with the patients about both their experience of living at North View and also their experience when relocating to North View from Park House.

The Healthwatch Manchester team conducted an Enter and View visit to the inpatient wards at Park House, located on the North Manchester General Hospital site, to speak with the patients about both their experience of living at Park House and also their knowledge & understanding of their future relocation to a new site known as North View.