Annual Report 2025/26

Healthwatch Bracknell Forest report on its key achievements for 2025/26.  It:

• Influenced local healthcare planning through a major women’s health project, ensuring the views of 580 women informed NHS work on women’s health services, waiting times, information provision and culturally appropriate support. 
• Improved the quality of care in local care homes through Enter & View visits, leading to dementia-friendly adaptations, improved signage, enhanced resident involvement, expanded visiting arrangements and better social opportunities. 
• Ensured residents’ experiences shaped improvements to hospital services and patient information, highlighting issues around communication, discharge processes, accessibility and service navigation, while helping providers develop clearer and more inclusive information. 
• Amplified the voices of underrepresented communities, including people with learning disabilities, people with sensory impairments, carers and residents at risk of health inequalities, helping shape hospital rebuild plans and improve access to community dentistry services. 
• Influenced wider local planning through work on the Communities Strategy, disability access, primary care, mental health and the Frimley New Hospital Programme, ensuring lived experience informed decision-making.