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Tips to help you stay well this winter and get the care you need.

The latest edition of the Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) newsletter is now available online and to download.

Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees worked with Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Community Based Learning Disability Day Services to engage with people with a learning disability on their views and experiences of health and wellbeing over the past year.

Healthwatch Stockton-on-Tees engaged with the community to understand how the Accessible Information Standard (AIS) is working on a local level and to find out how people experience receiving health information from health and care services.

Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board (TSAB) must produce an Annual Report in line with the requirements of the Care Act 2014, setting out what the Board and its member agencies have done to carry out and deliver the objectives of the Strategic Plan.

Healthwatch is working with the NHS to improve the wellbeing of people in our area and across the region.

The 7-Day service from Hartlepool and Stockton Health, run in partnership with local Primary Care Networks (PCN), offers evening and weekend clinics.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report following an inspection of forensic inpatient or secure wards, run by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in July and August.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its annual survey of people’s experiences of NHS community mental health services.

The Stockton Lived Experience Forum is being set up to consult with local people across Stockton-on-Tees on their lived experiences of mental health and will help inform the Community Mental Health Transformation.

Have you or your loved one been left frustrated after struggling to get a GP referral for tests or treatment? You’re not alone.

The NHS wants to make it easier and safer for patients to get the right treatment when they need it, without waiting a long time to be seen in A&E. Find out what this means for you and your loved ones.