News and reports

The Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) is distributing their annual surveys to provide service users, professionals and the public with the opportunity to have their say and inform the Board’s future priorities for safeguarding across the Tees.

A new survey has been launched to gather feedback on three NHS services designed to help people access care more quickly and conveniently.

The NHS has launched new guidelines on what to expect from your GP, and how to use their services, and they would like your feedback.

WorkWell (WW) is a new NHS service to help people with health problems stay in work or get back to work. The North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) commissioned Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees to gather feedback from focus groups as part of a larger review of the WW service.

We worked with Stockton-based Bridges Family & Carer Service kinship group to hear their thoughts on the service and share ideas on what would make the WorkWell service more accessible and effective.

The latest edition of the Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) newsletter is now available online.

In June, the Government published its NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England after an engagement exercise in which over a quarter of a million NHS staff and members of the public gave feedback.

ADHD and autism are two neurodivergent conditions that present in contrasting ways. In recent research, Healthwatch England heard from people who were diagnosed with, or suspected they had, both conditions. They talked about the impact of being diagnosed with both conditions.

NHS England has published the long-awaited updates to the Accessible Information Standard. Read the response from Healthwatch England.

As part of the Healthwatch North East & North Cumbria Network, we work in partnership to represent the public voice across our whole region. Our latest published report details some of the work we have done together during 2024 - 2025, with external funding, to look at health topics across our region.

Thank you to everyone who has contacted us with messages acknowledging the importance of independent patient voice. We’ve been truly overwhelmed by the response to the news that, as part of the NHS 10-Year Plan, Healthwatch is set to be abolished.

You can find out the opening hours for pharmacies across the Tees Valley for the August Bank Holidays below.

Diabetes UK have launched a new set of video resources designed to improve access to diabetes education for people with hearing loss or lived experience of being Deaf.