Welcome to Healthwatch Suffolk

All we need is an email to send you occasional updates about our work. Our updates (roughly 2-3 per month) will help to keep you informed about opportunities to shape, influence and improve local standards of NHS and social care.

There’s more to us. We provide trusted insights to support projects and decision-making across health and care systems. Visit our dedicated page to find out how our team can support your next project and make an enquiry.

Discover our work. Find our latest reports and briefings.

Find out what people told us about living with dementia in Suffolk.

Find out what people tell us about their experience of access to prescription medication across Suffolk.

We’ve heard from more than 30,000 children and young people about their mental health and emotional wellbeing. Download our latest reports and see how this work is helping schools, colleges, the NHS and other bodies to help young people in Suffolk.

Find out how you can join our project to shape services and support for people who identify as transgender, non-binary, and those exploring their gender identity.

Be a part of our project exploring lived experience of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Suffolk. Find out how you can take part now.

Share views on NHS plans to move majority of orthopaedic surgery from West Suffolk Hospital to a new facility in Colchester.

From British Sign Language support, to translated web forms, accessible research projects, our Feedback Centre and more – we’ve got you covered if you want to share your experiences. Learn more on www.healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk/feedback/. You can also contact freephone 0800 448 8234 for support from our team.

We passionately believe that listening and responding to your experiences is vital to create health and care services that meet the needs of everyone in Suffolk.

‘Share for Better Care’ – a joint campaign run by Healthwatch and the Care Quality Commission – aims to help more people to give feedback about their care, particularly people from ethnic minority communities and people living on lower incomes.

If you’re disabled, or if you have a sensory loss, you have a legal right to expect that information about your health and social care should be provided in a way you can access and understand it.

‘Your Care, Your Way’ helps us challenge services to improve their compliance with the Accessible Information Standard, and increase people’s awareness of their rights.

Learn more about our current opportunities to shape local NHS and social care services, including details about our latest research and co-production projects.

Find out how we’re supporting NHS and care organisations to think differently and to design their services with local people.

Find out how we’ve used your experiences to improve and influence local health, social care and wellbeing services.