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Find out how five local Healthwatch worked together with Integrated Care Service (ICS) to improve young people' use of accident and emergency (A&E) departments locally.

Find out how Healthwatch Essex and Healthwatch Suffolk are working with their Integrated Care System (ICS) to improve digital access to health and care.

Find out how Healthwatch services in North East London joined together with their ICS to improve access to health services locally.

Find out how six Healthwatch in South East London joined together with their ICS to improve access to GP services locally.

Over 80% of local Healthwatch say they have regular contact with their ICS. Find out more in our review of current relationships between Healthwatch and ICS’s, including our strengths, and areas for improvement to work better together.

Thanks for coming to Healthwatch Week. Please take a moment to tell us how it worked for you so that we can learn for future events.

Take a look at some of the best from Healthwatch 2021, which saw over 600 staff, volunteers and stakeholders get together online to debate, share and learn.

The Quality Framework tool helps you work out the strengths and weaknesses of your service. Healthwatch Northumberland walk us through how they used it and the lessons they learned.

Now we may not all be in the same physical space this year to share what we’ve working on or our stand out achievements from the previous year – but that doesn’t mean we have to keep quiet!

Hear from Saba, a Healthwatch Commissioner about her views on where Healthwatch is going and what she’s most looking forward to when it comes to supporting the network to be the best it can be.

With the introduction of the Integrated Care Systems there will be a heavier focus on collaboration within and between different ICS areas. Find out how you can help improve data standards across the network to enable better collaboration.

Over the last year, we have been reviewing our digital systems to improve our offer to local Healthwatch.