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As well as increasing awareness of Healthwatch South Tees, workshops were held to identify what health and care services these communities use, the barriers they face in accessing these services and most importantly discussing solutions to remove them.

Our report below includes a summary of the key findings and recommendations to improve access to services.

We are pleased to present Healthwatch Middlesbrough's Annual Report for 2023/24.

In September 2023, Healthwatch South Tees (HWST) welcomed two new Engagement & Events Officers to the team as a way to increase awareness of our function with South Tees communities and encourage additional feedback of health and care services to inform our work.

This report has been completed following a review of 38 GP Practice websites across the South Tees region.

The particular focus of this project is to improve support for the family, carers and
older people with a learning disability (aged 40+ to reflect the early onset of chronic
health conditions such as dementia) by producing effective recommendations.

We worked with in collaboration with Tees Valley Healthwatch Network and both the South Tees and wider Tees Valley reports are available to download.

In August 2023 we produced our GP Resource in collaboration with a range of professionals in response to the most common questions we heard from local people. We also wanted to raise awareness of the changes that are now in place in GP practice teams, to help people understand how to make the most of the range of options available from this service.