News and reports

Following three years of extensive engagement with local people, Reverend Lloyd Denny, has published the Denny Review into health inequalities across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.

Please see details below of Healthwatch Bedford Borough visit to Lilibett Lodge in May 2023

Please see details below of Healthwatch Bedford Borough visit to Waterloo House in May 2023

Please see details below of Healthwatch Bedford Borough visit to Bushmead Court in June 2023

Healthwatch Bedford Borough is proud to announce we have published our Annual Report 2022/23, containing highlights from the past year and details of the year ahead.

Healthwatch Bedford Borough is the local, independent voice for the public in health and social care services. One of the ways that we fulfil our role is to carry out focused projects each year and develop our annual workplan based upon public priorities.

As Healthwatch Bedford Borough, we will give critical challenge to highlight where improvements can be made, be the voice of the public, show the impact our work can make and work hard to listen to people throughout the Borough.

Community Nurse Fellows commissioned local Healthwatch across the East of England to engage with patients, carers and families about their views towards community nursing, and their experiences of accessing this service. 6 Local Healthwatch involved in this engagement included: Healthwatch Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, Central Bedfordshire, Bedford Borough and Suffolk.

Please see details below of Healthwatch Bedford Borough and Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire's visits to Bedford Hospital in July 2022.

Following on from our Seen and Heard report, where people told us that they were not being communicated with in accordance with their rights under the NHS Accessible Information Standard (AIS), HBB have produced the following report.

We have published our Annual Report 2020/21, containing highlights from the past year and details of the year ahead.

During December 2021 and January 2022 Healthwatch Bedford Borough undertook an observational review of publicly accessible information in relation to dentistry provision within Bedford Borough. Please see findings in report below.