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Plan ahead this Bank Holiday - pharmacy opening times
Make sure you order and collect any repeat prescriptions you need in good time so you're not caught out.
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Healthwatch East Sussex Listening Tour Activity begins in Rother
The Healthwatch East Sussex Listening Tour is an opportunity for us to listen to the views and experiences of local areas and to find out what people think about health and care services.
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Petition to review decision to abolish independent local services
Following the announcement at the start of July that nationally Healthwatch is to be abolished as part of a wider re-organisation, local Healthwatch…
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NHS Sussex want to hear from residents on how they can improve NHS services
NHS Sussex would like to hear from people across Sussex about what matters to them about the NHS, and where further improvement is needed
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Holiday Food and Fun (HAF) in East Sussex
For six weeks during school holidays throughout the year (Easter, summer and Christmas) school-aged children and young people who receive benefits-…
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Latest reports and publication

‘You Said, We Did’ – July 2025
We regularly review the experiences you told us through public events, surveys, Feedback Centre and Information & Signposting enquiries.
Healthwatch uses your feedback with health and care decision-makers to seek a positive difference, and this document sets out the issues you raised and any changes you have helped us to deliver during July 2025.
Healthwatch uses your feedback with health and care decision-makers to seek a positive difference, and this document sets out the issues you raised and any changes you have helped us to deliver during July 2025.
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Mapping of Patient Participation Groups in East Sussex
Between May and July 2025, five Healthwatch volunteers reviewed public/patient facing information about Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) across 55 GP practices in East Sussex using their websites and follow-up requests
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