Healthwatch Waltham Forest will focus on two key engagement projects over the next year:

  • Integration Transformation with a focus on older people and including End of Life, Carers and dementia services.
  • Access to GPs – working alongside GPs and the people who contract their services, to improve GP access by adapting to meet the needs of different cohorts of patients.

We will also focus on working with the Waltham Forest Health and Care Partners to develop a network of local people to enable local people to set their own engagement priorities and activities moving forward.

Our priority setting process aims to

We are also currently working on gathering insights and making recommendations for improvement relating to:

  • Encouraging all health and care service providers in Waltham Forest to assess if their services meet the Good Care Framework developed from the Big Conversation Report we produced in November 2023. That is, are they Accessible, Competent, Person Centred and Trustworthy.
  • Vaccine Literacy in the Pakistani and Romanian communities.
  • How to engage people from more diverse communities in clinical research.