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In September 2015, 3 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Firth Park GP surgery. -
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In August 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Darnall Primary Care GP surgery. -
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In December 2015, 3 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Porter Brook Medical Centre, a GP surgery. -
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In November 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Page Hall Medical Centre, a GP surgery. -
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In December 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Baslow Road GP surgery. -
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In February 2016, 3 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Woodhouse Health Centre, a GP surgery. -
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In June 2016, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Highgate Surgery, a GP surgery which is part of the Clover Group. -
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In December 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Manor Park Family Dental Centre. -
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In November 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited GHB Dental Practice. -
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In November 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Hurlfield Dental Practice. -
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In December 2015, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Forge Farm Dental Practice. -
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In October 2016, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Charles Clifford Dental Services. -
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In February 2016, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited East Glade Centre, which houses one of the four Community Mental Health Teams in Sheffield. -
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In February 20165, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Burbage Ward, a mental health inpatient ward at the Michael Carlisle Centre. -
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In March 2016, 4 of our Enter & View volunteers visited the out-patient Ante Natal Clinic and the Rivelin Ward in-patient Ante Natal Clinic at Jessop Wing, Royal Hallamshire Hospital. -
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In September 2016, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited the Medical Outpatients area at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. -
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In September 2016, 2 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Huntsman Ward 7 (Orthopaedic) at the Northern General Hospital -
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In November 2016, 4 of our Enter & View volunteers visited Beech Hill Intermediate Care Unit. This is an NHS community rehabilitation unit, providing intermediate care for patients following a stay in hospital. -
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Writing our Annual Report has given us the opportunity to look back over some of the work we were doing before Covid-19 disrupted life for everyone, as well as reflect on the early impact of the pandemic for local people. -
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Challenge Sheffield and SODIT work with people with lived experience of mental health distress and used their grant to hold the Sheffield Mental Health Challenge Day. -
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The Health Team at Zest work closely with Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) women and had been made aware of a number of issues in relation to how and why the women access GPs and other health services. -
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City of Sanctuary Sheffield used our Speak Up grant to run two health events for asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield in May 2018, to listen to their experiences of local health services. -
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Shipshape is a community health organisation based in Sharrow. They offer a range of one-to-one and group health and wellbeing services. Shipshape received a grant to gather the views and experiences from people who are supported by their services. -
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Burton Street Foundation used their #SpeakUp Small Grant to ask their clients, people with mild/ moderate learning difficulties, about their experience of their local GP surgery. -
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The Darnall Community Development Centre (DCDC) provided workshops with their #SpeakUp Small Grant, aimed at young males to discuss their experiences and views of accessing, or reasons for not accessing, local health and mental health services. -
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Disability Awareness with Sport (DAWS) runs DAWS Community Gym in Hackentorpe. They support people with disabilities to improve their health and wellbeing, and wanted to better understand their clients’ experiences of health services. -
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Foxhill Forum used their #SpeakUp Small Grant to engage with their community at Foxhill and Parsons Cross and ask about their experience of accessing health and social care provision. -
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The Sheffield Chinese Community Centre used their #SpeakUp grant to conduct surveys, interviews, workshops and a focus group meeting with Chinese members to obtain feedback about their experiences and views on local health and social services. -
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STAMP is a group of young people aged 14—25 who are passionate about making a positive change to mental health in Sheffield. They hosted a consultation event to give young people the opportunity to #SpeakUp and influence change around mental health -
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The Link Community is a community hub based in South East Sheffield. They run a nearly new shop and delivers other activities and services to support local people. They used their #SpeakUp grant to talk to local residents about their experiences. -
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2017-18 was the first year of our #SpeakUp small grants scheme. We awarded funding to 11 local groups, enabling them to work with their communities to talk about health and social care services. Here we summarise the findings of these reports. -
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Edukation Solutions is an organisation that offers courses to those who have English as a second language. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to consult with the BAMER (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) community about their views on health care -
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Reach South Sheffield is a community regeneration organisation working with local people in the communities of Gleadless Valley, Lowedges, Batemoor and Jordanthorpe. They heard from parents about their experiences of accessing health services. -
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Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group provides information and support for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Fibromyalgia, their families and carers.
They used their #SpeakUp Grant to create a film documenting the ‘Missing Millions’ event. -
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STAMP is a Sheffield based group of young people aged 14-25 years old, the majority of whom have accessed mental health services before. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to give young people the opportunity to talk about their experiences. -
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South Yorkshire Eating Disorders Association (SYEDA) helps people with eating disorders and their supporters. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to explore a voice initiative and to consider the new eating disorders pathway in Sheffield. -
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Foxhill Forum is a community organisation based in North East Sheffield. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to support local pople to take photos using the theme of health and wellbeing and to discuss their own experiences. -
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Flower Estate Action is a small registered charity based on the Flower Estate in North Sheffield. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to support local people to have their say regarding primary care and dentists. -
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SAYiT provides support for young people aged 12-25 years old who identify as LGBT+ or affected by HIV. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to explore young people’s experiences of sex and relationships, health and puberty advice and education. -
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City of Sanctuary Sheffield provide information, advice and support to refugees and asylum seekers. They used their #SpeakUp grant to explore what kinds of health and wellbeing advice and activities would help asylum seekers and refugees. -
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Family Voice Sheffield run classes that aim to build the confidence of mums in the Nether Edge, Lowfield and Sharrow areas of Sheffield. They used their #SpeakUp Grant to hear from women about their experiences of GPs, dentists and pharmacies. -
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Sheffield Mencap & Gateway provides support to adults and children with learning disabilities and their families and carers. They wanted to explore the awareness of and experiences of people with learning disabilities regarding Annual Health Checks. -
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2018-19 was the second year of our #SpeakUp small grants scheme. Building on last year's success, we awarded grants to 11 local groups who helped their communities to #SpeakUp about health and social care. You can read a summary of the reports here. -
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Healthwatch Sheffield, in partnership with local groups SAYiT and Transactive, has carried out an investigation into the experiences of trans people using health and care services in the city. -
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In March, we published the findings from our investigation into the experiences of health and care in Sheffield's trans community. Health and social care commissioners have now told us what they're going to do in response. -
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Earlier this year we published our investigation into home care in Sheffield. People told us how they would like services to improve, and we've now had a response to those recommendations from the Council and CCG. -
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Young Healthwatch are a group of volunteers who work with Healthwatch Sheffield to make sure children and young people’s views are listened to. They wanted to find out how young people in Sheffield feel about their self-worth. -
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Healthwatch Sheffield has carried out a review of public experiences of mental health support outside of hospital. We spoke to 450 people to find out what they thought. -
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We worked with Sheffield Mencap and Gateway to explore the experiences of people with a Learning Disability when they access health and social care services. Here's what they told us. -
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Take a look at the papers for our March 2019 meeting in public.