The COVID-19 health and wellbeing webpages are now live on the Council website and can be found here: https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/category/1430/health-and-wellbeing-during-covid-19 They aim to give basic information to residents with relevant links to support and services during the current situation, all in one place.
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Riverside Community Health Project has made 15 online courses free to access for people with a Newcastle postcode Download poster here.
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Service Changes Information Hub We are working hard to bring you all the updates and changes to NHS, social care and community services due to Coronavirus. To make things easier, our online Service Changes Information Hub brings together the rapidly changing information about local services into one easy to access place. The hub includes information…
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What health and social care services matter to you? Please help us choose our work priorities for 2020—21 from a shortlist of health and social care topics. The list is: Adult social care assessment process Carers’ assessments Interpreting services Reviews of social care support for people who are no longer in crisis Supporting young people…
Read More What areas should we focus on during 2020—21? Every year we ask for your help in choosing our work priorities from a shortlist of health and social care topics. The list for this year is: Adult social care assessment process Carers’ assessments Interpreting services Reviews of social care support for people who are no longer…
Read More Healthwatch Practice Participation Group ForumSaturday 22 February, 10am to 12pm, Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7BJ We’re starting a Healthwatch Practice Participation Group Forum in February. This is open to all members of Practice Participation Groups (PPGs) in Newcastle and Gateshead. A PPG is a group of patients, carers and GP practice staff…
Read More Health and care survey extended to 3 February There’s still time to do our annual health and social care surveyWe want to celebrate services which provide excellent care and find out where improvements might be needed. To do this, we need your feedback. Complete our short online survey and you can enter our free £25 prize…
Read More The Healthwatch Newcastle office will close for the holidays at 2pm on Tuesday 24 December and re-open on Monday 6 January. You can still call us during office hours over the holidays if you need information about any local health or social care service. You can also search, review and rate services any time at…
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Our Healthwatch survey – what matters to you? If you live in North Tyneside or use North Tyneside services then we want to hear from you. Please complete our annual survey and tell us: how easy services are to use what works, if staff are staff helpful, if you got the care you needed what could be…
Read More Mental health services for children and young people We launched our survey to gather experiences of mental health services in October. So far we’ve had 152 responses: 53 from Newcastle residents and 89 from Gateshead residents. Most responses have been from parents and carers. We’d like to hear from more people in Newcastle — particularly…
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