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Healthwatch Tower Hamlets joined by two work placement candidates
For the last two weeks, Healthwatch Tower Hamlets were joined by two work placement candidates as part of our work placement programme. Read on to find out what type of work they were involved in and what skills they learned during their time with us.
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NHS Bowel Cancer Screening
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. Yet the latest data shows that almost one third of people who were sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit in England last year did not go on to complete it. Early diagnosis is vital, as detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated.
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Tower Hamlets Council to pilot government Family Hubs scheme
Tower Hamlets Council one of first 75 local authorities to pilot government Family Hubs model to be rolled out across the borough by March 2024
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GP appointments in north east London
Each month the NHS publishes national and regional data on GP appointments. You can see in the infographic below that in December 2022, GP practices in north east London provided over 860,000 appointments. 46% of the of these appointments were same day, 57% were within one day and 78% were within one week. 65% were face-to-face and 34% over the phone; and 58% of these appointments were with a GP and 41% with another member of practice staff like a nurse.
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Tower Hamlets Together-Coproduction Network
Improving how the Council and NHS can work with people and the voluntary and community sector to improve health and care services.
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Formal Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) Consultation
Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board is in the process of developing an updated Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for the borough. This is an important document that describes health and wellbeing need and the provision of pharmacy services.
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Tell us your story of maternal mental health care
Pregnancy is a major life event for any family. It can be joyful and fulfilling but also challenging. We’re launching a national survey to understand if care works for new mothers and birthing parents. Share your story.
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Loneliness Event
Our local CVS organisations and Tower Hamlets Together partners, are working to reduce social isolation, through longstanding work, with support of Tower Hamlets Loneliness Taskforce Grants and other resources.
Tower Hamlets Connection Network is supporting local organisations to work together to share ideas, information and access to resources to deliver a stronger local response to loneliness and isolation, affecting our most marginalised residents.
Tower Hamlets Connection Network is supporting local organisations to work together to share ideas, information and access to resources to deliver a stronger local response to loneliness and isolation, affecting our most marginalised residents.
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Volunteer for Healthwatch Tower Hamlets and boost your CV!
Volunteering with us will help you learn new skills or develop existing ones and gain valuable work experience. We provide training in research, data analysis, report writing and much more!
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Council wins £5m research boost to address health inequalities
Tower Hamlets Council and its partners have secured a £5m funding award through a new national scheme to boost support for research to address health inequalities.
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We have launched our Healthy Neighbourhood project
This is your chance to tell help improve local services in Tower Hamlets by sharing your experience of using them.
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