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Our volunteers are our lifeblood. They help us with every aspect of Healthwatch from making decisions about our priorities, listening to patients and ensuring peoples' voices are heard.

Each May multiple awareness raising campaigns are running, some focused on specific weeks or days.

 

High blood pressure (which is also known as hypertension) rarely has noticeable symptoms; so if you have it, you’re unlikely to realise it.
But if untreated, it increases your risk of serious problems such as heart attacks and strokes.

So many of us put memory loss down to old age; but that’s not always true.

Here are some facts about ovarian cancer:

What is available on the NHS? What do you have to pay for? How much is it going to cost? These are some of the questions you have asked that we can answer.

At the end of last month, organised by both Healthwatch Kent & Healthwatch Medway, 200 guests came together to celebrate the best in health & social care.

The theme this month is about support during pregnancy and when caring for those under 5years old which you can download at the bottom of the page.

How do we make our decisions?

More than a million people will be eligible for a spring Covid-19 jab in the south east, as the NHS begins to roll out the next phase of the vaccination programme.

32 people and organisations were winners last night at the prestigious Healthwatch Recognition Awards last night.

We all know that a work life balance is hard to achieve. But sometimes we need to take a moment to step back and consider what we can do to help ourselves.