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What is the Coventry Health Challenge?

Most of us know that it is important to our health and well-being to eat well, stay active (physically and mentally), give up smoking, cut down on drinking and make sure you get things like the flu jab.

Our Steering Group met via Zoom in November.

Each year Healthwatch Coventry looks at the evidence local NHS organisations produce about the quality of their services, and inputs into the ideas for future quality priorities based on what we hear about services.

Our Steering Group met via Zoom in October.

NHS website is the country's biggest health website giving information including conditions, symptoms and treatments, what to do and when to get help.

Between 6 July 2020 and 7 August 2020 we spoke to 71% of residential care home managers and heard their experiences and views about the impact of Covid-19 on the services they provide along with examples of what worked and what did not.

Volunteers from Healthwatch Coventry looked at the websites of GP practices in Coventry to see what information was given about Covid-19 and how to access GP services.

We looked at the information about dental services available at Coventry dental practices following their reopening to patients.

Our Steering Group met via Zoom in August.

Read about Gillian's experience of volunteering with us as an Authorised Representative in her own words.

Healthwatch Coventry worked alongside Healthwatch Warwickshire to find out the impact changes to services and support resulting from Covid-19 were having on local people.

Our Steering Group met in July.