News and reports

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

We have responded to this year's GP Patient Survey.

Our annual report 2023-24 shares how we've listened and championed the peoples, partners and organisations voices of Swindon to help shape health and social care services.

This month we bring you our latest reports, details of a welcome space and more.

To champion the public's views, we act on clear, informed evidence of their health and social care experiences. Find out what evidence we use and how.

From 31 October 2023, GP surgeries must give patients online access to their new health record entries. Find out what information is in your record and how to access it.

My Voice Matters is ensuring the voice of people with diverse lived experiences and backgrounds are heard.  

Each year Healthwatch Swindon sets its priorities for the year ahead based on the experiences that we hear from local people.

This month we bring you details of a new maternity and neonatal advocacy service, diabetes prevention programme plus much more!

On March 23rd 2024 we co-hosted an event with NEC Care to help raise awareness about diabetes.

We visited the Maternity Services at Great Western Hospital on 19th February 2024.

Our Enter and View visits are a way that we can gather information about services and collect views of service users, staff and volunteers.

Following on from our visit we have made some recommendations to the service provider based on the feedback we have received and what we observed.

My Voice Matters is ensuring the voice of people with diverse lived experiences and backgrounds are heard.
We are proud to be able to give the opportunity for seldom heard voices to be heard by providers and wider organisations in their own words.