News and reports

From October this year, the new NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service will offer local pharmacy appointments to anyone calling NHS 111 about minor conditions such as earache or a sore throat..

If you need medical help and advice you can now choose a new online method to seek appropriate treatment. Find out more about how you can use this new service.

We all grieve differently." That's the message Young Minds want to give to any young person who has experienced a bereavement or loss in their life.

Each year we take a retrospective look back at our achievements throughout the last twelve months and try and pull them all together in our Annual Report.

At our event in May 2019 those in charge of local health and care services told us of plans to make improvements to services across Wandsworth and also specifically for hospital outpatients. Read the report on what attendees thought about the plans.

You can contribute to the improvement of local NHS cancer services in Wandsworth. Find out how

Carers in Wandsworth told us they need more support and now Wandsworth Council are developing a new digital tool. Find out more and how you can shape this new tool.

Wandsworth Council's Co-production and Partnership Group wants local people who use social services, carers and voluntary sectors representatives to work partnership with council staff to help shape the way adult social care services are developed.

Read about the research from Healthwatch England suggesting that dementia care needs to be improved. Often people needing care are unaware of what they can access and what they are entitled to. 

'Bed Sores’, ‘Pressure Ulcers’, ‘Pressure Sores’. They have many names, but talking about them is hard and rarely done.

Read this guide on how staff can easily improve the oral health of care home residents.

A new report from the CQC has found that there needs to be more of a focus on oral health in care homes. Read more from Healthwatch England about the perspective from the Healthwatch network.