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A good night’s sleep helps us to rest and repair our mind and body, it's vital for maintaining good physical and mental health and wellbeing. Sleep problems are common and the reasons we struggle to sleep are likely to change throughout our lives – stress, illness, work, having a baby or menopause are all possible causes.

Healthwatch is an independent organisation in the United Kingdom that gathers and represents the views and experiences of patients, service users, and the public on health and social care services.

Together we’re making health and social care better.
Annual Report 22/23 find out what we got up to in 2022-23 and read about our plans for the future. As always, we’ve done our best this year to put your voices at the heart of health and social care.

In 2016 the Accessible Information Standard was introduced to give disabled people and people with sensory loss the legal right to receive information from the NHS and local adult social care in a format they choose, so they can understand information and can access communications support if needed.

Slough residents tell us What Matters Most when it comes to health and social care services.

During the autumn of 2022 Slough Borough Council asked Healthwatch Slough to undertake a “Quality Visit” to two supported accommodation projects close to Slough town centre: Hope House and Hope Place.
The project was co-ordinated by Healthwatch Slough in collaboration with the managers of Hope House and Hope Place.
The project aimed to capture feedback from customers about their experiences of living at Hope House and Hope Place.

Newsletter

Every Spring we decide which areas we should focus our work on over the coming year. We base this on feedback we’ve had from local people and on the priorities of local health and care services. We have prepared a short survey with a list of the topics you have contacted us about over the last year. We would like you to look at these and tell us which you think are most important to you and why. We don’t have the resources to work on all of them so your feedback will help us to decide which ones to focus on.

Read latest news, information and updates on our work.

Many women and girls will encounter some sort of domestic abuse in their lifetime, it has a rippling effect and can have devastating consequences for those caught in that cycle of abuse.

The NHS wants to make it easier and safer for patients to get the right treatment when they need it, without waiting a long time to be seen in A&E. Find out what this means for you and your loved ones.