Healthwatch Isle of Wight is strongly urging Isle of Wight residents to complete their annual health priority survey.
The survey consists of a list of the top 20 most common health or care themes that have been reported to Healthwatch Isle of Wight over the past 12 months – such as GP services, care of older people, adult social care – and asks that people choose their top 5 priorities.
The areas that receive the highest number of votes will become the next areas that Healthwatch Isle of Wight will begin to work on.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many changes and challenges within the health and care sector at the moment and Healthwatch play an important role in ensuring the public are not adversely affected.
In order to make sure the organisation is as effective as possible it is vital that people continue to share their experiences and contribute to surveys as it is this information which is used to demonstrate the impact upon service users to commissioners and service providers.
As a result of last year’s survey, Healthwatch Isle of Wight has completed work on dentistry, access to GP practices and suicide prevention, and work in these areas is ongoing.
Joanna Smith, Healthwatch Isle of Wight Manager, says:
“This survey will ensure that the voices of the Isle of Wight people are heard. With the current financial and workforce challenges affecting both health and social care services, it is more important than ever that local people have a say in how services are delivered and improved”.
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The survey is open now at www.healthwatchisleofwight.co.uk and will run until 10th March 2021.
Anyone who requires support to complete the survey or who wishes to share their experiences (good or bad) of local health and/or care services can do so by ringing 01983 608608 or by emailing [email protected].
Clicked on the above link and could not find the survey.
Where do we find it?
it’s there if you look, have another go.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HS1NIC/
Click on the top ‘link’ then when the site page is shown, the left hand side near the top has a ‘page’ with Island survey’ or something like that written on it.
Click on that and it will show the survey.
Only a case of then clicking five options of choice.
But who is/are “Healthwatch” and what do they achieve? Looked at their website and they seem to do a lot of report-writing, but to what effect? Is any health service provider required or expected to act on their reports? If not, there’e not much point in their carrying out yet another survey which will tell them exactly what all the previous ones have found.
Another ‘independent’ quango that seeks to find fault…?
less house building on the island, mean less pollution and less overcrowding – means better air quality and better mental health, leading to an overall increase in the quality of life for islanders.
Quite right!