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This is your chance to tell help improve local services in Tower Hamlets by sharing your experience of using them.
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Tower Hamlets Council and its partners have secured a £5m funding award through a new national scheme to boost support for research to address health inequalities. -
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Volunteering with us will help you learn new skills or develop existing ones and gain valuable work experience. We provide training in research, data analysis, report writing and much more!
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Our local CVS organisations and Tower Hamlets Together partners, are working to reduce social isolation, through longstanding work, with support of Tower Hamlets Loneliness Taskforce Grants and other resources.
Tower Hamlets Connection Network is supporting local organisations to work together to share ideas, information and access to resources to deliver a stronger local response to loneliness and isolation, affecting our most marginalised residents.
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Pregnancy is a major life event for any family. It can be joyful and fulfilling but also challenging. We’re launching a national survey to understand if care works for new mothers and birthing parents. Share your story. -
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Improving how the Council and NHS can work with people and the voluntary and community sector to improve health and care services. -
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Tower Hamlets Council one of first 75 local authorities to pilot government Family Hubs model to be rolled out across the borough by March 2024 -
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Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. Yet the latest data shows that almost one third of people who were sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit in England last year did not go on to complete it. Early diagnosis is vital, as detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated. -
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Share Your Feedback about Health and Care Services
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Gain experience in using a variety of skills whilst contributing to your local community and build your CV too! -
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Anxiety is one of the most common mental health problems we can face. Focusing on anxiety for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week will increase people's awareness and understanding of anxiety by providing information on the things that can help prevent it from becoming a problem.
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For the last two weeks, we had our work placement candidate as part of our work placement programme. Read on to find out what type of work she got involved in and the kind of skills she learned during her time with us.
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NHS England has recently published its "Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care". We outline what the planned changes will mean for you. -
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Loneliness and social isolation are common problems for people of all ages in our borough. These conditions can lead to poor physical and mental health and increase the risk of developing conditions like dementia and depression. The elderly are particularly vulnerable due to reduced mobility and lack of proximity to family, but young people also experience loneliness when away from home.
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Thank you for supporting Healthwatch Tower Hamlets during our transition to YVHSC. We are proud of the progress made in the past year and welcome your feedback. Take our survey to share your thoughts.
Note: the survey is for stakeholders only. -
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We're thrilled to announce that we had interns as part of our internship program. Their names are Luke and Haley, and they supported us for 12 weeks in 2023. Please keep reading to learn more about the tasks they worked on and the skills they acquired during their time here. -
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We're thrilled to share that there has been a new intern at Healthwatch Tower Hamlets as part of our internship program. Casey joined us for six-weeks between March to April 2024.
Please keep reading to learn more about the tasks he worked on and the skills he acquired during his time here.