News and reports

We visited the Chemotherapy Cancer Services at Great Western Hospital on 6th December 2023.

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 & backgrounds are heard.

We are proud to be able to give the opportunity for seldom heard voices to be heard by providers & wider organisations in their own words.

On behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support we have looked at understanding where people would like information and support in Swindon.

Swindon Healthwatch and First City have worked together to understand what the people of Swindon think about the future of community care, now, next year and next decade.

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.

This report was written by Dr Aanchal Rana as a practice track report for the degree of MSc Global and Public Health Policy at the University of Bath.

We offered her access to our team and engagement pathways to support her delivering this piece of work. All opinions and findings are her own.

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, this report has been researched and written by a T-Level student at New College Swindon.

We worked with the NIHR (Clinical Research Network West of England) to understand current perceptions of Health and care research, and what the barriers are.

A review was undertaken by one of our Healthwatch Volunteers with lived experience of cancer asking five questions to understand what online support is offered via the GP surgeries locally. Our findings have been published in a report.

We were joined recently by a Year 10 Student from The Commonweal School, read about her experiences here

Read our annual report for 2022/2023 and find out about how our dedicated staff and volunteers have made a difference to care throughout the year.

Earlier this year we held our first Spotlight On meeting, focussing on your experiences of GP access. In this report we share what we've heard.

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

We are proud to be able to give the opportunity for seldom heard voices to be heard by providers & wider organisations in their own words