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What you have told us about local health and care services between April – September 2019. -
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Lambeth Dementia Action Alliance is a network of local organisations, services and businesses that are working to make Lambeth more dementia friendly. -
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People have told us they can have problems registering with a GP. This article explains more about your rights and what do to if you are refused the right to register. -
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Health issues unfortunately don't leave us alone at the weekend and people are often in need of medical assistance out of hours. Using NHS guidelines, we have provided some advice and information on where you can go for help when your GP is closed. -
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Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments. -
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Four questions staff should ask you or a loved one about your oral health if you’re a care home resident, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quick guide. -
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End of life care is support for people who are in the last months or years of their life. Resources on advance care planning, and the guidance on the NHS website helps you know what to expect, how to plan ahead and how to manage your decisions. -
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Help make sure that your practice meets people’s accessibility requirements using this checklist from Healthwatch Slough. -
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We've pulled together a number of services for parents in need of support for their mental health. Read more to find out where you can go to get the help you need. -
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Take a look at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) quick guide to discussing and planning support following a dementia diagnosis. -
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Find out what support is available to help you when travelling to your GP, hospital or other NHS services. -
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We carried out an Enter and View to take a closer look at community-based mental health services. The project was based on a recognition of the large numbers of people who rely on primary care and community services as an important means of support. -
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In 2016 we conducted a series of six Enter and View visits to South London and Maudsley NHS Trust community mental health services. These included supported accommodation services, employment support services and clinical services. -
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We carried out an evalution of the first two years of Project Smith, where local people worked together with NHS Lambeth CCG and Lambeth Council, recognising that the community and people are the assets and key to good health and wellbeing.
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At our annual general meeting (AGM) on the 20 November, we shared our new draft position statement, which outlines how we aim to support better public involvement for Lambeth Together moving forward. -
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A couple of months ago we published a report on perinatal mental health in Lambeth. We looked at the experience of mothers during pregnancy and after giving birth – and the support they received. Here's what we've done with the findings -
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A pilot project aimed to test out an approach for building a picture of older people’s experiences of health and social care services following a stay in hospital. -
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We evaluated the adaptation of an existing hospital-based initiative designed by the Guy's and St Thomas' Trust, to help carers of elderly family members with dementia prepare for their return home after a stay in hospital. -
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Our survey of care home managers and sheltered scheme managers reveals that some residents are not receiving a level of social care that meets their needs.
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The visit was aimed at understanding how ‘children and youth-friendly’ the services at Evelina London from the views of patients, relatives, and staff. -
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This Enter and View project aimed to understand how ‘youth-friendly’ the services at King’s College Hospital from the perspective of young people interviewers, patients and their families, and staff. -
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We were interested in understanding how ‘youth friendly’ the services at King’s College Hospital were from the perspective of young people and their families. -
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Every three months, we’ll bring you a round-up of the latest feedback we have received from Lambeth residents. Here’s a summary of what we’ve heard from 48 people between April and September 2018. -
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We have published our latest round up of feedback from local people features experiences of a range of services. We received 63 calls between October 2018 to March 2019 (Quarter three and four of 2018/19). -
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Our Volunteer Louise shares her experience of volunteering with us, the things she has learned, and how it was an eye opener to help her think about future career options.
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A number of Lambeth residents have voiced their concern that proposals for "Our Healthier South East London", the regional coordinator of the national NHS Long Term Plan. People worry that proposals will have a major impact on Lambeth's autonomy. -
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Lambeth Council has reviewed all the fees and charges for adult social care in Lambeth, and are now seeking views from Lambeth residents as part of their decision-making process. -
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In September and October we’re carrying out Enter and View visits into three care homes that are providing block contract beds for Lambeth Council. This will support Lambeth Council’s improvement plans for the care homes. -
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Over the past year, we have been working with Lambeth Council on a project looking into how home care can be improved. The aim was to use design approaches to find ways for home care to be more joined up with other services and to empower people. -
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Over the summer, we hosted two student volunteers, Fahmida and Hager, from the Nuffield Research Programme. They supported our Engagement Manager Natalia’s two projects for children and young people in Lambeth. Hear from Fahmida about her experience. -
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The Right for Everyone project was a partnership initiative to investigate how well community health services work for people with learning disabilities. We looked at dental services, GP practices, pharmacy, foot clinics and opticians. -
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This visit programme contributes to one of Healthwatch Lambeth’s priority areas; access to community based services and their impact. We chose to focus on community pharmacies because most people use these services. -
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King’s College Hospital, CliniQ’s Tuesday service is at the Caldecot Centre, 15-22 Caldecot Road, London, SE5 9RS. It is open every Tuesday from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. -
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In partnership with the Lambeth Council and Lambeth Made we evaluated the Early Help pilot in Streatham. Reframing Early Help Programme aims to improve the Early Help offer to enable families to receive high quality, whole-family support. -
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s have launched a sunflower lanyard for their patients and staff. The sunflower lanyards are for people who have a disability that you might not be able to see, and for people who might need extra help. -
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The trust was rated ‘requires improvement’ for being safe, effective, responsive and well-led. It was rated ‘good’ for being caring, following the inspection in January and February 2019. Their previous overall rating was also ‘requires improvement'. -
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The Sanctuary at Mosaic Clubhouse is an out of-hours support service in a non-clinical space, targeted at Lambeth residents over 18 years of age who live with a mental health condition. -
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Our work in Vassall Ward in 2015 revealed that most people would choose to visit their GP first if they needed help for a mental health concern. That's why we decided to look at people's experience of tlaking to their GP about mental health. -
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in 2016, we looked at websites of GP surgeries in Lambeth to find out what information and signposting was available for patients online. -
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We were interested to listen to the experiences of adults either living in Lambeth or registered with a Lambeth GP who had spoken to their GP about mental health concerns in the last twelve months. -
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We explored GP waiting rooms from a mental health perspective, rRecognising that the waiting room atmosphere and the information displayed affect all patients, not only those with mental health concerns. -
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We planned a series of Enter and View visits to community-based mental health services including supported accommodation, employment and training and clinical treatment services, including Penrose Options. -
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We ran a series of Enter and Views into community services. Connelly House, run by Cyrenians, offers 24-hour supported accommodation for those with complex mental health needs.
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As a provider of community based mental health support services, we chose to conduct an Enter and View visits at Living Well Network (LWN) Hub. A ‘front door’ to comprehensive community mental health and wellbeing support.
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We were keen to learn from people who have mental health needs how they find information and advice about where they can seek help and support, and what their experiences of receiving this support has been. -
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We visited Mosaic Clubhouse to hear from people about listen to how mental health service users perceive the quality of the support they receive at Mosaic Clubhouse and, if and how it enables them to manage and maintain their wellbeing. -
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We explored current understanding among residents of Vassal ward of how they would seek advice, information or support for a mental health concern. -
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Healthwatch Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark contributed to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspector information pack prior to their inspection of South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Trust in September 2015.