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Heading to university? Put your health on the checklist!
Between packing, moving in and Freshers’ Week, health rarely makes the list. Here are a few simple steps students can take before term gets going.
Could hospital discharge be better? Share your experience with Healthwatch Cheshire East
Healthwatch Cheshire East is inviting local people to share their experiences of leaving hospital as part of a new survey … Read more
Healthwatch Cheshire East publish Annual Report 2025-26
Healthwatch Cheshire East’s Annual Report for 2025/26 is here — a year of listening to residents and helping shape GP access, discharge and care.
NHS Industrial Action update
Resident doctors will strike from 15–19 June 2026, causing significant NHS disruption across Cheshire and Merseyside. Patients should attend appointments unless contacted, check local updates, and use NHS 111 for non-emergency care.
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Cheshire council leaders write to Secretary of State on Healthwatch abolition
Council leaders across Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester have written to the Secretary of State urging the Government to reconsider plans to abolish Healthwatch. Read the full letter.
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside launches ‘Make the switch’ Campaign
Make the switch: New NHS campaign tackles medicine myths Across the NHS, huge numbers of patients have been successfully switched to different versions of their medicines to treat their health conditions. But research shows … Read more
NHS App and Independent Feedback Report – March 2026
Our NHS App and Independent Feedback report brings together insights from 1,717 people across 19 Local Healthwatch areas and highlights … Read more
Healthwatch Cheshire publishes ‘The Value of Local Independent Voice’
Healthwatch Cheshire has today published The Value of Local Independent Voice, making the case for why independent patient voice matters now more than ever — and what 12 years of community insight across Cheshire has achieved.