Come along to our health inequalities research project community engagement event!
Blackpool Council, Healthwatch Blackpool, and Boing Boing Foundation have 5 years of funding for a health inequalities research project (HDRC) from the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR). The Blackpool community will be at the heart of this project. Working together as co-researchers, we will ensure that people’s lived experiences of facing health […]
Women face rationing of HRT under medication shortages
Women will only be able to get a common hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for two months at a time under new measures brought in by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).Ad-hoc shortages of various HRT have been reported by women to local Healthwatch over the past few years as suppliers try and keep up demand […]
Type 2 Diabetes prevention week 2023
Finding out your risk of type 2 diabetes only takes a few minutes, but it could be the most important thing you do today…. Right now, millions of people across the UK are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is serious and every diagnosis is life changing. It’s a relentless condition, and […]
The British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre want to hear from you!
Researchers at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre are seeking public views to help design a new app that could better study how activity levels vary with changing heart health. The research team at the BHF Data Science Centre hope that a new app could give valuable insights into why heart and circulatory […]
Calling all local people living with COPD!
Calling all local people living with COPD! Join NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospital and partners on June 7th, 2023, at The Grange in Blackpool. Let’s break healthcare barriers together. Share your stories, conquer challenges. Email: bfwh.ebc.blackpool@nhs.net for more.
AI risks worsening health inequalities and harming patients, experts warn
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare settings may worsen health inequalities and harm patients, experts from the UK, US, Australia, Costa Rica and Malaysia have warned. AI has the potential to revolutionise healthcare, particularly in diagnostics, they said, but research has largely failed to consider the broader social threats it poses. In a […]
Better Health: Every Mind Matters: Lifting Out Of Lonliness
‘A roundabout with many exits and no signposts’: People’s experiences of dementia
It’s Dementia Action Week and Healthwatch have been working to highlight how people often struggle to find their way to help and support before and after a diagnosis, and we’re asking the question ‘Why don’t we treat dementia like any other illness?’ For more information please head to Healthwatch Suffolk. Healthwatch Suffolk
Better Health: Every Mind Matter: Anxiety
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