News and reports

Healthwatch Bracknell Forest, Healthwatch Slough, and Healthwatch Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead spoke to 580 women as part of this project to understand their experiences of local NHS women’s health services (excluding maternity care).

Out of these, 507 women completed a survey, and 73 took part in focus groups. These focus groups specifically aimed to hear from women of Asian heritage, whose voices were underrepresented in the national Women’s Health Strategy survey.

We are pleased to publish Healthwatch Slough Annual Report for 2024/5

As part of our 2024 Enter and View programme, this report provides a summary of key findings from our visits to six care homes.

Patient feedback on accessing the urgent care centre was generally good, with suggestions for improvement, including outdated street signage still directing patients to the closed walk-in centre.

Our monthly hospital visiting programme has been running since September 2023. We have spoken to 546 patients, visitors, volunteers, and staff at Frimley, Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospitals. (306 in the last 6 Months)

A summary of our Enter and View visit to Langley Haven Care Home, where we spoke to residents, relatives and staff. Our visit focused on independence and choice. We have shared with commissioners and CQC.

We are pleased to share our Healthwatch Slough Annual Report with you.

A summary of our Enter and View visit to Windmill Care Centre, where we spoke to residents, relatives and staff. Our visit focused on independence and choice. We have shared with commissioners and CQC.

This report was originally published in 2023. However we received additional substantive information from a deaf resident about failings in the provision of accessible information.

A summary of our monthly hospital visiting program which has been running since September 2023. We have spoken to 240 patients, visitors, volunteers, and staff at Frimley and Wexham Park hospitals.

This Healthwatch project and report seeks to understand the awareness, motivation, and barriers for women in communities of interest taking folic acid, asking them for their experiences and ideas to aid better understanding within the maternity system.

We wanted to hear from a variety of people from different communities, gathering insight into the health and social care experiences of residents in Slough.