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Where can students find mental health advice?
A local sixth form student curated this guide of five resources that can help young people with their mental wellbeing, during work experience with Healthwatch Reading.
20 June 2019
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How to carry out effective involvement and engagement
We've created a toolkit for local organisations to help them meet their duties to involve the public when planning health and social care services and collated other useful resources too.
14 June 2019
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What the NHS Long Term Plan means for you
The government published the NHS Long Term Plan on 7 January 2019, backed by an extra £20bn a year for the NHS until 2023.
1 April 2019
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Do you need help getting to hospital?
Find out what kind of support is available to attend hospital appointments.
29 March 2019
What are your NHS rights?
Did you know that you have dozens of legal NHS rights, including access to free care, waiting times, medical records, making a complaint, and more.
13 March 2019
How you can get help with Continuing Healthcare (CHC)?
Find out how you can get help for CHC applications or appeals.
13 March 2019
Which NHS services do you have to pay for?
Find out costs for dentist visits, prescriptions, and other items.
13 March 2019
Where can you find official care and treatment guidelines?
Find out if you are getting the care you should, by accessing national or local guidelines.
13 March 2019
How can you access your medical records?
Find out how you can see what information is held about you under current legislation.
13 March 2019
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Your guide to patient participation groups
Patient participation groups (PPGs) play a key role in helping people get the best out of their GP surgery.
1 February 2019
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What should you expect from home care services?
The number of people being cared for in their own homes is increasing but what should you expect from home care services?
29 August 2017
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The Accessible Information Standard - What you can expect from services
A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect.
31 July 2017