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What has been your experience of mental health during pregnancy and early parenthood?

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South London Listens is a joint initiative to prevent people becoming mentally unwell as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

NHS General Dental Services are operating at significantly reduced capacity due to social distancing and infection prevention.

Healthwatch Wandsworth want to hear more about your experiences of video or telephone appointments with health and social care services.

At the Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly this year, we talked about Health Inequalities in Wandsworth. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown has had an inevitable impact on health and care services.

Read or report on the discussions about news ways of working during the Covid-19 pandemic and the positive and negative impact on health inequalities.

In July 2020 we worked with SWL CCG (Wandsworth) to develop an independent survey for care home staff. Read our report about how well staff in care homes felt supported to care for their residents and to look after themselves during the pandemic.

As part of the NHS is here for you campaign, the NHS in Wandsworth have created a short film offering reassurance to local people that it is safe to return to the NHS for treatment.

Healthwatch Wandsworth wanted to find out the experiences of people regarding health and social care services amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We opened a COVID19 survey in May 2020 based on Healthwatch England’s survey with some minor adjustments.

Intermediate Care services offer short-term care to patients and aims to increase independence & recovery. Wandsworth Council is developing an integrated model of care and wants to understand how these services can be improved for patients.