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Help decide our health and social care priorities for 2026–27
By sharing your views, you can help decide what we focus on during 2026–27 and help improve services for people across Gloucestershire.
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Exploring lifestyle behaviours and mental health in young people
Aged 11 - 18? Complete our short survey looking at how how things like exercise, social media and vaping affect the wellbeing of young people in Gloucestershire.
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Feedback from people with macular disease and sight loss
We were kindly invited by the Macular Society to visit two of their Gloucestershire groups in May and June 2025 to raise awareness of Healthwatch Gloucestershire and to listen to the health and social care issues facing people with macular disease and…
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Complete our survey - Breaking Barriers: Improving Access to Cancer Services – Including Screening
A new collaboration has launched which aims to uncover inequalities and barriers to accessing cancer care and shape how services can be improved for the most vulnerable people in Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon and Gloucestershire.
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Sign our petition to review the decision to abolish independent local Healthwatch
Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.
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Project up for national award after residents speak up about the Care Act assessment process
The National Healthwatch Impact Award recognises outstanding examples of people sharing their experiences to improve care for their community.
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NHS industrial action: 17th December to 22nd December 2025
Resident doctors (previously called junior doctors) are striking between 7am on Wednesday 17th December until 7am on Monday 22nd December.
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Provider of Healthwatch Gloucestershire awarded 'Investing in Volunteers' standard
TCF is the provider for seven local Healthwatch across the South West. The Investing in Volunteers standard shows that the organisation values its…
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NHS industrial action: 14th November to 19th November 2025
Resident (formerly, junior) doctors are due to strike tomorrow for five days from 7am, Friday 14th November to 6:59am, Wednesday 19th November.
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Latest reports and publication
Report: Experiences of Parkinson’s care in Gloucestershire
More than 150 people with Parkinson's and carers of people with Parkinson's spoke to us about what it's like living with the condition, and their experiences of the care they have received.
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Enter and View: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Respiratory Unit
Our staff and volunteers visited the Respiratory Unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 24th September 2025.
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