News and reports

Healthwatch Kingston is taking part in a special memory walk, "Night to Remember," to raise vital funds for Kingston Hospital Charity on September 7th.

This year's focus is to help ensure that the pediatrics service can offer every family who suffers the devastation of losing a child professional support, similar to the service now available to mothers who have experienced a fetal loss.

The London Assembly Health Committee is currently investigating dentistry in London. The deadline to have your say is Friday, 6 September 2024.

Vaccination is a high priority action for the NHS, to protect people from serious illness and to support NHS and adult social care resilience.

Healthwatch organisations in South West London are conducting surveys to understand your experiences with GP services as someone covered under the Accessible Information Standard (AIS). It should take 10 minutes to complete.

Now is your chance to have your say as Kingston Hospital plans to merge with Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) later this year.

The NHS plans to triple the number of physician associates it employs. But how much do patients know about this role, and how can their role be safely expanded?

A poll of 1,504 working-age disabled adults found that 28% have never accessed social care or other support despite potentially being eligible. Healthwatch call for a fully funded, long-term plan to reform social care.

Do you have 10 minutes to help us understand how easy it is to understand and communicate information about health and care with GPs?

The public is welcome to join PART A of this meeting.

This meeting will be held on MS Teams

For a summary of all Healthwatch Kingston's reports published for the year 2023-2024, please see below.

This report is one of two (the second is our ‘Including Digitally Excluded Communities’ report) that share findings from our community engagement with Kingston residents over almost two years.

In this year's YOL! Activity Update, find out what young people think about local heath and care service, watch an interview with Tom Baverstock, a Kingston’s Cycling Paramedic and discover more about how the YOL! Digital Youth Project has worked with the Kingston Resilience Fund to tackle young peoples challenges with social media.