News and reports

Find out more about how we influenced and made a difference to health & social care services in Darlington during 2017/18.

The second report which follows a series of care home visits conducted by Healthwatch Darlington, to ascertain the quality of life and choices of care home residents across the Borough.

Find out more about the experiences of local BME patients and the accessibility within GP services across Darlington.

Find out how Healthwatch Darlington worked with other regional local Healthwatch organisations to listen to services users about what they think about digital patient records.

Volunteering opportunities for young people living in Darlington aged 14 to 25.

Healthwatch Darlington carried out a short survey to achieve a better understanding of what
patients and their families thought about the maternity care they had received at Darlington
Memorial Hospital in the last 12 months.

Volunteering opportunities for anyone over 25 living in Darlington.

Information sharing about a new sexual heath & contraceptive service in Darlington was confusing for young people. Find out more about what they told us and hear what happened with our findings.

Darlington Borough Council (DBC)
and Darlington Clinical
Commissioning Group (CCG)
contacted Healthwatch
Darlington (HWD) to help gather
feedback from Children and
Young People (CYP), Parents and
Carers.

Healthwatch Darlington worked with GP surgeries to understand the different requirements for each practice, when it comes to patient registration and identification.

We know from our conversations with the public that some patients report feeling rushed during appointments and struggling to make themselves heard. Here are some tips that could help you get the most out of visiting your GP.

Following consultation over a 3 month period ending March 2015, we listened to residents from the Bengali, West Indian, Roma Gypsy, African, Jewish and Chinese communities.