News and reports

TARACC are launching a new cancer support service from July 2024.

Redbridge Rainbow Community are holding a number of events to celebrate Pride Month.

Find out about the latest Community Cash Fund Project run by Mind Axis.

We are looking for dedicated volunteers to collaborate with Healthwatch Redbridge staff members in delivering information sessions for our Women’s Health Project.

We want to hear from you about your experiences of cervical screening.

For National Diabetes Week, join the Diabetes UK, South East Coast and London team for an online event for people living with and affected by diabetes, plus healthcare professionals.

Under half of women would act on ‘red-flag symptoms’ a bleed after the menopause or between periods (45 and 44% respectively). Abnormal vaginal bleeding is a ‘red-flag’ symptom of three of the five gynaecological cancers: womb, cervical and vaginal, which together affect around 13,150 women and people with gynae organs each and every year in the UK.

Following phase one of the Care Homes Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Report, Healthwatch devised further questions designed to extract data from those Homes where the DES was deemed to be working well.

Charges for prescriptions and prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) will increase by 2.59% (rounded to the nearest 5 pence) from 1 May 2024.

The community treatment team (CTT) works with adults in the community with an acute physical need who could potentially be treated at home, rather than attend accident and emergency (A&E).

ELFT, along with North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) and partners across NEL, are working together to ensure that service users experiencing mental health crises can access support via NHS 111, a freephone number that provides urgent health advice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to people of all ages.

Redbridge Rainbow would like to interview local LGBTQ+ people (aged 18 or over) about their experiences of health or social care services.