Healthwatch Isle of Wight has won 2 national awards that celebrate the difference local Healthwatch have made to health and social care in the past year.

Chosen from over 150 entries, Healthwatch Isle of Wight has won awards for its work on Residential and Nursing Care Homes for the following categories:

Engagement in service improvement

For the local Healthwatch who has influenced local health and social care providers through evidence from the experiences of their local community, resulting in positive change.

The NICE better care award:

Sponsored by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, this special award will celebrate the most outstanding example of where a local Healthwatch has been able to help improve local health or care services by using NICE advice or guidance.

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Healthwatch Isle of Wight worked in partnership with the IOW Safeguarding Adults Board to produce a film about mate crime. The film was developed with the involvement of local people to raise awareness of mate crime and was presented at the IOW Annual Safeguarding conference in March 2017.

Since then the film has been published on Youtube and has been shared with Martin Clarke Learning & Development Manager at TACT (UK's largest Fostering and Adoption charity) who said: 'Thanks for sharing this excellent quality and very informative film' and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has tweeted about the film to their 27.5K followers.

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