Annual Report 2025/26

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Healthwatch Essex report on their key achievements in 2025/26:

  • 240 ambassadors and 193 network members in our team who use their lived experience to shape local services. We have ambassadors with experience of mental health, trauma, caring, disabilities and more.
  • 1399 people got support from the Healthwatch Essex Information & Guidance Team via our website, phone, text, WhatsApp, or email and 5,160 were engaged with in person.
  • Making a difference on a wide variety of topics, including cancer, exercise and shared care for ADHD.

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Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch Essex
Publication date
Date evidence capture began
Date evidence capture finished
Key themes
Access to services
Caring, kindness, respect and dignity
Consent, choice, user involvement and being listened to
Integration of services and communication between professionals
Lifestyle and wellbeing; wider determinants of health
Medication, prescriptions and dispensing
Service organisation, delivery, change and closure

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
No

Details of health and care services included in the report

Details of health and care services included in the report
Oncology and cancer care

Details of people who shared their views

Number of people who shared their views
1,399
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