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For Mental Health Awareness Week this year, organisations are coming together to raise awareness of the impact of loneliness on mental health and the practical steps that can be taken to address it.

Dementia Action Week is an awareness raising campaign. This year's theme is 'diagnosis'.

On 1 April 2022 the government lifted the last of the Covid restrictions as part of their Living with Covid Plan.

A carer is someone of any age who provides unpaid support to family or friends who could not manage without this help.

Inclusion and amplifying the voices of people with a learning disability is a key priority for the work of Healthwatch Kingston. Here is the Healthwatch Kingston Learning Disabilities End of Year Report 2021 - 2022

Healthwatch Kingston independently chairs and provides administrative support for this group.

The LSVG will bring together three people with lived experience of Safeguarding from each London borough. Healthwatch Kingston has been commissioned by the London Safeguarding Adults Board to coordinate the LSVG work programme.

REPORT PUBLISHED 24 March 2022: In April 2021 Healthwatch Kingston launched our ‘Pulse Check’ engagement programme to work with our diverse communities in Kingston and listen to their views and experiences of health and social care services.

The public is welcome to join PART A of this meeting via the Zoom Meeting link, ID and Password below.

The NHS in South West London is running a number of focus groups and a survey to hear from parents of children between the ages of 5-17 years living in South West London.

In April 2021 Healthwatch Kingston launched our ‘Pulse Check’ engagement programme to work more closely with our diverse communities in Kingston and listen to their views and experiences of health and social care services.

Advice and information about Multiple Sclerosis services in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and other resources provided by the MS Society.