Big thanks to Echo for volunteering with us over the past 6 weeks. Here s to seeing you fly in the health and care world in the future!

Want to move more for your #MentalHealth ? Not sure where to find groups in #Leeds ? Explore our #MindWell website! #MoveYourWayLeeds with our new resource: bit.ly/MindWell-Move-… & our Exercise & move your way pages: bit.ly/MindWell-Exerc…

NightOWLS is for every child or young person, including neuro-diverse people, who are experiencing a mental health crisis at night. Open 8pm - 8am every day. Call free, text or online chat at wynightowls.org.uk #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Grt little video made by Gemma in the market yesterday. Tips from mh service staff on how they stay well with their mental health, experiences of accessing services and what could help us become a mentally healthy city. Visit mindwell and mindmate for up to date mh services info.

Jason highlights the struggles that deaf people face when communication is not made in an accessible format. Like many deaf people, Jason struggles with many services requiring contact by telephone.
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#GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay
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Supportìng/challenging services to be accessible to everyone has been one of our key workstreams for the past five years. The accessible information standard is still not being adhered to in many services despite being law for several years. This issue needs immediate action.

Did you know you can ask health and care staff to contact you in a way that suits your needs? Advocate for yourself and raise awareness of access needs. Watch our video: youtube.com/watch?v=OSk7lp… #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #InclusionForAll #Accessible
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Supporting/challenging Leeds to be a mentally healthy city is one of our priority areas at HWL. It's one of the key priority areas that people talk to us about. Lots to do against a backdrop of ever challenged budgets but we will do all we can to keep it high on the agenda.

Please book for this, Surfing Sofas is so brilliant with his wisdom, talent and creativity and engaging our Leeds citizens LCH NHS Trust Leeds Teaching Hospitals Forward Leeds Bevan Health and Wellbeing St George's Crypt steph lawrence MBE RGN RN child DN QN FQNI ✨ John Walsh✨ Basis Sex Work Joanna Project

Great to be able to share our work on reducing health inequalities in the north east of Sheffield by transferring power to the communities we serve greg fell FFPH lucy ettridge Mark Gamsu Sheffield Health and Care Partnership NHS South Yorkshire New Local

If you work with people with learning disabilities or autism, you can find out more about how to make reasonable adjustments on our website: bit.ly/3tNa8Ei

Big congrats to Rameesah for being announced as one of the Common Purpose global 25 top young leaders under 25yrs! We are very lucky to have Rameesah as a core member of our Youthwatch and now part of the Healthwatch Leeds team. Go Rameesah!

Lucy is a disabled queer PhD student researching the experiences and thoughts of disabled trans/NB people living in Leeds about the police in relation to hate crime/incidents.

Did you know you do not need proof of address, immigration status, ID or an NHS number to register with a GP? nhs.uk/nhs-services/g…

Thank you Harriet Wright for helping this pregnant woman access her local GP.

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Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service and Yorkshire MESMAC Leeds want to hear LGBTQ+ people's experiences of crisis services in Leeds and what a service centred around supporting LGBTQ+ people may look like.

Share your thoughts by filling out their survey: forms.office.com/e/ujjmXWnz9Q?u…
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Come find us tomorrow at LeedsKirkgateMarket for the Autism Acceptance Month Event. Free for anyone to attend. Along with many other stalls, we will be offering information about support available in Leeds. #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptanceMonth

Today we featured in a BBC article shedding light on the digital divide in healthcare and growing concerns about the accessibility of these services for vulnerable groups. We encourage you to read the article and share your experiences

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Grt to profile our latest report . The move to digital. Working for some but not for others with the potential of increasing inequalities and costly inefficiencies. How do we move forward with digital delivery in a measured/person centred way that doesn't leave people behind?

Inspiring day listening to how other local healthwatch are making such a difference. Commended for us this year, big congrats to Blackpool and Coventry for runner up and winner for work around vaping in young people and maternity care for refugees.

Never in doubt that Harriet would do a brilliant job. Great comment from the Chief Exec of Healthwatch England about our ongoing work.