Reaching out to our local community
We strive to make sure we hear from as wide a range of our diverse community as possible. We want to tell the people who make decisions and change things about the experiences everyone has with health and care services.
We understand that factors such as culture, location, wealth, education, environment and discrimination can lead to worse health outcomes, and we support the strong consensus that this must change. At Healthwatch Dudley, we stand ready to help by doing more to amplify the voices of communities that go unheard and reduce the barriers they face.
Small changes, big impact
We conducted Enter & View visits to six GP surgeries as part of our research into access to GP services.
All six of the GP surgeries we visited responded positively to the feedback from patients and have committed to making changes.
Addressing over-representation
We worked with One Love Community and Arts CIC to explore the over-representation of ethnic minority young people in the Youth Justice System.
Our report contributed to the formation of a steering group to address the issue and allocation of funds to a mentoring project.
