News and reports

Please take a moment to read our latest review called We Matter. The report shares the first hand experiences of young people and their families who have used Children and Young People’s Mental Health services in Oldham.

We hope you like the new format for the Annual Report which sets out the work of Healthwatch Oldham over the last 12 months and includes examples of how we have engaged and supported Oldham residents.

The Royal Oldham Hospital invited Healthwatch Oldham to undertake a review of the experiences of pregnant women and their partners/birth partners attending their Antenatal Clinics.

This has been another productive year for Heathwatch Oldham. We have had an active role at the Greater Manchester level supporting the Health Devolution work, and at a local level supporting the development of Oldham Cares.

Our latest report contains findings from an engagement exercise we carried out on F11, Haematology Day Unit at Royal Oldham Hospital with 41 patients and 15 relatives and friends over four three hour sessions during February and March 2018.

Bringing together all the data collected at our July 2017 and Nov 2017 Healthwatch Forums which were focused on type 2 diabetes Prevention and Awareness as well as our health stall held at the European Islamic Centre Mosque in Werneth in Nov 2017.

Our latest report looks at the findings collected from 58 people who attended the Emergency Department at Royal Oldham Hospital and did not require admission. 22 of those people completed a more detailed follow up questionnaire.

Healthwatch Oldham is delighted to publish its Annual report for 2016-17.

For this Forum, we asked specific questions about people’s understanding of their own mood, diagnosis, possible treatments and services they have accessed. The answers to these survey questions have been collated and analysed to identify any trends.

The project included 209 Health Literacy Questionnaires and 7 in depth interviews undertaken with parents with children under 5 within the Failsworth GP Cluster.

We have published a report on the findings collected at the Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Awareness Forum from June 2016.

We have published a report which was undertaken with the aim of sharing with health and social care purchasers and providers a detailed account of the personal experiences of 26 people who use a range of health and social care services.