News and reports

This edition of Healthwatch Wigan and Leigh's Quarter 1 Spring newsletter is now available to read. It covers what we have been up to as a team from April-June!

About us
We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services within the Wigan borough. We are here to find out what matters to people, and help make sure their views shape the support they need. Link below to download.

The Care Quality Commission has told Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to make urgent improvements in the safety of community-based mental health services for adults of working age following an inspection of two teams in April.

here is a download to the PDF download of our priorities for the year, you can find our methodology of how we gathered the data to choose the 4 topics, as well as the 4 topics themselves.

This edition of Healthwatch Wigan and Leigh's quarter 2 newsletter is now available to read.

Our board meets bi-monthly to discuss local health and social care issues, and use what people are telling us to make decisions for our Healthwatch. Download minutes from our meeting from the 29th January 2022.

Our board meets bi-monthly to discuss local health and social care issues, and use what people are telling us to make decisions for our Healthwatch. Download minutes from our meeting from the 27th September 2021.

Our board meets every six weeks to discuss local health and social care issues, and use what people are telling us to make decisions for our Healthwatch. Download minutes from our meeting from the 7th September 2020.

Healthwatch Wigan and Leigh makes its decisions in an open and transparent way and ensures the interests of the people of the Borough will always come first.

This report captures the voices and experiences of people across the Wigan Borough who are accessing services at their General Practice (GP). We engaged with over 300 residents to hear how practices are continuing to interact with them.

People with eating disorders use food to cope with difficult situations or feelings. This can include limiting the amount of food eaten, eating very large quantities of food at once and much more. In this article we're going to take a look into ED's.

Bridging Gap, an independent mental health peer support organisation and Healthwatch Wigan and Leigh have come together to develop a Mental Health Lived Experience Forum.