Access to Primary Care Briefing Paper

Access to primary care briefing paper
 

People's experience of accessing Primary Care in West Yorkshire


Local Healthwatch across West Yorkshire are working together to share people's experiences of health and care services at a West Yorkshire level. This is to ensure that people's voices are at the heart of shaping these services.
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First page of the access to primary care november 2023 briefing paper by healthwatch working together in west yorkshire

West Yorkshire Insight Briefing - Access to Primary Care in West Yorkshire, November 2023

What people across West Yorkshire are telling us about their experience of Primary care services in November 2023
Primary care was the focus of the Integrated Care Board meeting in November 2022 and again in November 2023. The meeting is a discussion between people in charge of NHS health and care services in West Yorkshire and the theme of the meeting changes each time. At the Integrated Care Board meeting, local Healthwatch across West Yorkshire prepared to share what we heard about Primary Care services. Primary Care includes services such as your GP, dentist and pharmacy. In 2022 we brought a mixture of positive and negative experiences along with recommendations to make these services more accessible. In 2023 we talked about how positive examples of good practice can be shared to make things better for more people.
Healthwatch, working together across West Yorkshire, has produced a briefing paper highlighting some of the challenges and issues being faced by people and communities, when trying to access Primary care services.
This report has been shared with those in charge of planning health and care services at the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board meeting on Tuesday 21 November 2023.
Local Healthwatch in West Yorkshire includes:
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    Please get in touch if you require the report in a different format. Either call 0113 898 0035, email info@healthwatchleeds.co.uk or text 07717 309 843.

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