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This report provides insights into local people’s views on, and experiences with, health and social care services in Guildford and Waverley. It is based on what people have told us at a series of engagement events in the area, as well as enquiries to our Helpdesk, between November 2023 and April 2024.

Through 2023 – 2024, 1632 Surrey residents shared their experiences about health and social care with us and 824 Surrey residents sought advice and support from our Helpdesk and Independent Health Complaints Advocacy (IHCA) service.

Our 2023 – 2024 annual report ‘The value of listening’ highlights our impact throughout the year supported by our volunteers, and how we have worked with others to make a difference.

This report highlights our major impacts throughout our fourth quarter of 2023/24 (January to March 2024).  Our work has included empowering communities to access services online, co-producing advice leaflets to improve people’s knowledge of primary care services, sharing Surrey residents’ experiences of dementia services on a national stage and working in partnership to make services more inclusive through the Accessible Information Standard.

This report highlights our major impacts throughout the third quarter of 2023/24 (October to December 2023). It focusses on our priority areas including information and signposting, access to primary care, mental health, social care, involvement of people and tackling health inequalities.

This report has been designed to share with the Guildford and Waverley Alliance to highlight what local people are talking to Healthwatch Surrey about.

This report highlights our major impacts throughout the second quarter of 2023/24 (July to September 2023). It focusses on our priority areas including information and signposting, access to primary care, mental health, social care, involvement of people and tackling health inequalities. .

Our latest Insight bulletin summarises the key themes we’ve heard throughout September 2023 as well as providing details of our latest reports and information about how we gather our insight and our future engagement sessions.

Between 18^th February and 14^th March we ran a short survey, hosted on SurveyMonkey and publicised through our social media platforms.  71 people responded with 100% questionnaire completion rate. This report explains the outcome of this survey.