News and reports

Healthwatch Southwark are working with Mindwave Ventures to find people to take part in an online co-creation workshop which will help in the development of a local digital wellbeing service. Participants will be rewarded for their time.

We all need to stay at home as much as possible to prevent the spread of infection, and some people may be avoiding going out completely. We want you to be able to keep active, whatever your age or ability!

We’re looking to appoint two new members from Southwark to sit on our Healthwatch South East London Patient Group.

NHS South East London Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCG) is looking for local people from to join its Engagement Assurance Committee to help them plan how they involve local people in health services.

Are you registered with a GP in Southwark, identify as part of a Black and/or Ethnic Minority community and experiencing signs of stress, anxiety or depression?
You might find this ethnic minority empowerment group helpful.

You have a legal right to choose a GP practice that best suits your needs.

Find out more about our work and achievements over the year.

Find out more here about the changes hospitals, doctors, and other health services are making to help delay and deal with the coronavirus outbreak, and how this might affect your care.

We have analysed our recent signposting and feedback calls and emails to give you a picture of what Southwark residents are telling us about the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

NHS England has written to dental practices setting out the next steps for delivery of NHS dental services in England, as the NHS moves into the second phase of the Covid-19 response. Dentists can start reopening for all routine care from 8 June.

As we move into the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, some patients are being identified by clinicians (doctors and other healthcare professionals) as no longer needing to be on the clinically extremely vulnerable list. What does this mean?

On Friday 24 April I attended the Southwark Mental Health Carers Forum, where we heard about the proposal to move mental health inpatient wards for Lambeth residents from Lambeth Hospital to the Maudsley in Southwark.