News and reports

Here is a list of pharmacies in Leytonstone. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports.

A directory of pharmacies in Waltham Forest by area.

Here is a list of pharmacies in Walthamstow. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports from April 2019 onwards which means some pharmacies have yet been inspected.

Here is a list of pharmacies in Leyton. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports.

Here is a list of pharmacies in Chingford. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports.

We’re excited to be part of Volunteering Link – a new five-year project that brings together volunteering opportunities across Healthwatch Waltham Forest, Waltham Forest Community Hub, and Carers First under one coordinated programme. It’s designed to make volunteering easier, more flexible, and more rewarding for local people.

This week (31st May to 6th June) is Patient Participation Group (PPG) Awareness Week.

Barts Health NHS Trust have seen a significant fall in the number of people missing appointments since the introduction of the patient portal in April.

A brand-new digital X-ray room equipped with a brand new x-ray scanner, bringing faster diagnostics and improved comfort for inpatients has opened at Whipps Cross Hospital.

Our Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme, is coming to two locations in Walthamstow in June. The programme is designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection, and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and dementia.

Millions of patients can now track their prescriptions thanks to the rollout of a new feature in the NHS App helping to reduce unnecessary calls and visits to pharmacies.

Academic Centre for Healthy Aging (ACHA), based at Whipps Cross Hospital, is running a workshop that will help shape our future research into delirium—a serious and often sudden change in thinking and awareness that can affect people during illness or hospital stays.