News and reports

TCF is the provider for seven local Healthwatch across the South West. The Investing in Volunteers standard shows that the organisation values its volunteers and is committed to supporting volunteering within the organisation.

Our staff and volunteers visited the Respiratory Unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on 24th September 2025.

Resident (formerly, junior) doctors are due to strike tomorrow for five days from 7am, Friday 14th November to 6:59am, Wednesday 19th November.

We want to hear your views on the NHS App - whether or not you are using it, and what support is needed.

Find out more below about how to take part in our project exploring the experiences of girls, women, and gender-diverse young people who are autistic and ADHD. We want to understand what life is like in health, education, and community settings so we can share your voices in a public report that helps improve local services.

To make things a little easier, we’ve created a simple guide that brings together local and national mental health support options for young people (aged 11-25) in Gloucestershire. Whether you’re looking for someone to talk to, online support, or help in a crisis, this resource links you to services that can listen, support, and help you find the right care.

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 sight loss.

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.

The impact ADHD has on people’s lives can be profound and a diagnosis can be life changing. But people in Gloucestershire told us about a lack of support and long waiting lists for an ADHD assessment.

Approximately 0.4% of Gloucestershire’s population reported a gender identity different from the one assigned at birth - mirroring both regional and national figures. Despite this, the voices of trans and non-binary individuals in Gloucestershire are often underrepresented.

Our staff and volunteers visited The Old Vicarage Care Home on 22nd May 2025.

Instead of dismantling independence, we should be strengthening it.