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We visited Fountain Lodge nursing home to ensure that people who may be vulnerable and less able to raise their voices have the opportunity to speak to us. We looked at how residents' physical health needs are supported.

This report presents the findings of visits to mental health services for Coventry residents, including day services and rehabilitation services.

We know from our conversations with the public that some patients report feeling rushed during appointments and struggling to make themselves heard. Here are some tips that could help you get the most out of visiting your GP.

We reviewed patient information about GP services in order to see where this can be improved and promote good practice. We looked at practice websites, the NHS Choices website and practice leaflets.

We provided feedback on a new website being developed by Coventry City Council.

Find out about the work we did in 2014-15.

Having completed a series of care home visits we used what we had found to produce this list of quality factors which should be used when commissioning care home services

NHS Trusts must produce Quality Account documents each year to set out evidence about the quality of their services and to set quality priorities for the next year

We visited Arden Park Care Home to ensure that people who may be vulnerable and less able to raise their voices have the opportunity to speak to Healthwatch Coventry, and to look at how residents' physical health needs are supported.

Healthwatch gathered the views of 271 local people to understand the factors people though made a good quality GP service for them.

We visited University Hospital in Coventry to ask patients if they knew how to give feedback or raise concerns with the Trust

We worked with Healthwatch Warwickshire to produce a simple 9 step approach tool to help make engagement worthwhile for organisations and individuals.