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The aim of this survey was to gather feedback from service users who had been taken to the Health Based Place of Safety in Devizes following the temporary closure of the facility in Swindon and Wiltshire.

We've launched a small grants scheme to invest in projects that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.

Our report following a visit to Ashgables House in Chippenham, a care home for people with mental health needs and/or a learning difficulty.

Highlights of our work from October-December 2018.

We asked people to tell us what they thought of health and social care services in Wiltshire during a two-week tour of the county.

People living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Swindon and Wiltshire are being urged to do their bit to help the NHS cope with an increase in demand for services this winter.

The findings of a tour which collected more than 2,000 comments from the public have been published in a new Healthwatch Wiltshire report.

Highlights of our work from June-September 2018.

The Bradford on Avon and Melksham Health Partnership (BoAMHP) have been unable to recruit enough clinicians following the retirement of three full-time GP partners and have sought approval to close St Damian's Surgery in Melksham.

A public consultation on proposals to transform maternity services across Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), Swindon and Wiltshire has been opened by Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group this week.

To mark Self Care Week, we're encouraging people to be well-prepared ahead of winter by taking simple steps to look after themselves and helping their families, friends and neighbours to do the same.

Healthwatch Wiltshire is looking for your ideas on how it can improve its work in 2019.