Healthy Working Life – research and mystery shopping
16/01/2026 Healthwatch Kirklees
Healthwatch Kirklees was asked to carry out a mystery shopping exercise as part of the national Healthy Working White Paper and Sir Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review. The aim was to understand how people in Kirklees find information and support to help them stay in work, return to work or manage health conditions that affect their employment.
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Digital access to GP services
22/10/2025 Healthwatch Kirklees & Healthwatch Calderdale
During June and July 2025, Healthwatch Calderdale and Healthwatch Kirklees heard from local people about their experiences of using digital tools to access GP services. This includes online systems such as PATCHS, SystmOnline, and AccuRx, as well as the NHS App. Digital access is now a bigger part of NHS services. National policy encourages a move from paper and phone to digital, aiming to save staff time, improve access and give people more control. This report looks at people’s experiences of using online services to contact GP practices across Calderdale and Kirklees.
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Healthwatch England – What trans and non-binary people told us about GP care
25/07/2025 England & Kirklees & Calderdale
Evidence already suggests that transgender and non-binary individuals often experience poorer health outcomes than the general population. After transgender and non-binary people shared with Healthwatch concerns about their interactions with the NHS, we examined the issue by focusing on people’s experiences of GPs.
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Trans and non-binary people’s experiences of GP care in Kirkees and Calderdale
31/07/2025 Kirklees & Calderdale
As part of Healthwatch England’s project, we asked trans and non-binary people about their experiences at their GP surgery. The aim was to understand how well GP services are working for people who need general healthcare and gender-affirming support, like hormone prescriptions or referrals to gender clinics.
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Healthwatch Kirklees and Healthwatch Calderdale Annual Report 2024-2025
14/07/2025 Kirklees & Calderdale
We’ve been listening. You’ve been sharing. This report details all the work we have done and the impact that it has made from April 2024 to April 2025.
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Understanding smoking, quitting, and health inequalities
03/07/2025 Kirklees
Understanding the experiences of people who smoke and people who previously smoked helps shape effective support services. This engagement aimed to explore who smokes, why they continue, what might help them quit, and what factors supported people who quit in successfully stopping, all with a focus on health inequalities. The findings will inform Public Health and the system partners to shape and deliver the stop smoking service offer in Kirklees and wider stop smoking opportunities.
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15 Steps for Maternity
26/02/2025 Calderdale
The Kirklees and Calderdale Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) completed a 15 steps visit at Calderdale Royal Hospital. ’15 Steps for Maternity’ enables the MNVP to involve a wide range of people in reviewing and improving maternity services. This report includes all of the 15 steps findings, recommendations, and what will happen next.
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Opening doors: Enhancing hospital visits for patients, visitors, carers, and staff
27/11/2024 Kirklees & Calderdale
Healthwatch Kirklees and Healthwatch Calderdale were asked by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) to engage with people in our areas regarding the current visiting options at Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. Healthwatch and CHFT wanted to know what patients, visitors, carers, and staff feel about hospital visiting. They plan to use this feedback to shape the future visiting policy set by CHFT.
The engagement project gathered detailed feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including patients, visitors, carers, and hospital staff. The objective was to identify areas for improvement in visiting times, visitor numbers, and accessibility, as well as to uncover potential barriers faced by different demographic groups.
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