News and reports

The NHS offers support for people on low incomes to help with care costs. We look at how easy it is to access this help and how it can be improved.

Healthwatch England's new research calls for a more personalised approach to cervical screening to help the NHS meet its ambition to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040.

The Enter and View at Royal Oldham Hospital Postnatal Ward was a revisit from our previous Enter and View in August 2023. The revisit was a planned joint revisit with the provider being notified in advance and given a two-week timeframe for the revisit.

Healthwatch Rochdale, has today, 26th July 2024 published a report with their findings and recommendations after carrying out an Enter and View revisit at Rochdale Infirmary Outpatients department.

We have published our 2023/24 Annual Report showing how we have helped to shape and make a difference to local health and social care services.

Healthwatch Rochdale has today published their second report on what local people told us about their experience of going through the menopause in the Rochdale borough.

Healthwatch Rochdale have published their findings on Patient Participation Groups (PPG) in Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale & the Pennines.

Healthwatch Rochdale has published its new business strategy detailing its aims, goals, and objectives for 2023-2026.

Below you will find available to download papers for Thursday the 18th of July's Board Meeting.

As part of Healthwatch Rochdale’s ongoing commitment towards maintaining and developing a working environment that is welcoming to people from all backgrounds and abilities, we have recently embarked on a journey with the National Centre for Diversity that will lead us to achieving the Investors in Diversity for Small Charities Award.

Healthwatch Rochdale is currently recruiting for a new voluntary Vice Chair to join its existing board members in the development and management of the strategic running of the organisation.

You may have heard that cases of measles are on the increase in England. Healthwatch Rochdale wants to get a better understanding of the reasons why people do or do not have measles vaccinations.