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Whipps Cross Hospital is hosting a public meeting to present updates on its redevelopment programme, to answer questions and to hear the views of local people.

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Earlier in the year, the General Medical Council (GMC) ran a consultation on changes to their revalidation requirements for patient feedback.

Help make sure that your practice meets people’s accessibility requirements using this checklist from Healthwatch Slough.

Four questions staff should ask you or a loved one about your oral health if you’re a care home resident, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quick guide.

GPs in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge have praised the strength of the partnership between local health and social care organisations after financial directions imposed on the boroughs’ NHS commissioners had been lifted.

"For the past three months we have been examining what Queen’s Hospital in Romford and King George Hospital in Ilford will look like in the future as part of developing a new clinical strategy."

Commissioned by Healthwatch England to gather feedback, we worked as part of a footprint with other local Healthwatch across North-East London. As a group we focused on the following themes:
Preventation
Personalisation
Primary Care services

Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) CCGs has today (8 July 2019) launched an online survey to seek feedback on our proposed written continuing healthcare (CHC) placements policy.

The Office of the Chief Dental Officer England and NHS England and NHS Improvement has produced a commissioning standard for Urgent Dental Care services in England.

The review draws on one hundred inspections of care homes on which CQC inspectors were accompanied by inspectors from dental regulation.

Healthwatch needs people who can talk with users and take note of what is happening in places where problems have been reported, or where examples of interesting or good practice can be made known and publicised.