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Healthwatch Isle of Wight is your local health and social care champion.
We ensure that NHS leaders and decision-makers hear your voice and use your feedback to improve care.
We can also help you find reliable and trustworthy information and advice.

Healthwatch Isle of Wight has completed a series of Enter and View visits to four residential care homes for people with learning disabilities during May and June 2025. These visits form part of Healthwatch’s statutory role in championing the voices of service users and ensuring that people receive safe, dignified, and person-centred care.

These reports are shared with local providers and commissioners of services so they can hear where things are working well, and take action when services need improving.

Every year we ask people on the Isle of Wight to complete our prioritisation survey, the top three services/topics chosen by the public then become our priorities for the forthcoming year.
This way, we can ensure that we are focusing on the issues that really matter to local people.

Six local care and nursing homes on the Isle of Wight have been visited by the Healthwatch Isle of Wight Enter and View panel.

New accessibility report unveils crucial findings and recommendations for improved Health and Social Care communication

This year we have been working hard to hear from as many people as possible
by using inclusive methods of engagement, sharing information with local
people and finding new ways of listening to people’s stories.

Every year we ask people on the Isle of Wight to complete our prioritisation survey, the top three services/topics chosen by the public then become our priorities for the forthcoming year.
This way, we can ensure that we are focusing on the issues that really matter to local people.

The last year has been difficult for everyone, including the providers of health and social care services, as the process of recovery after COVID developed.

Every year we ask people on the Isle of Wight to complete our prioritisation survey, the top three services/topics chosen by the public then become our priorities for the forthcoming year.

Like many organisations, general practice needed to adapt quickly as our country went into lockdown and respond to new ways of working such as offering video and telephone consultations. Some people have told us that these new ways of accessing GP services have
worked well for them, allowing them to save time and get the help they need, quickly. But for others it’s been more difficult, time consuming and frustrating trying to access support when they need it.

How people feel about waiting to access hospital care: Findings from a patient survey.