Healthwatch Tower Hamlets, Q1 Patient Experience Report

24th October 2024Patient information, Tower Hamlets
Healthwatch Tower Hamlets, Q1 Patient Experience Report

Healthwatch Tower Hamlets is your local health and social care champion. Through our Patient Experience Programme (PEP), we hear the experiences of residents and people who have used health and care services in our borough.

They tell us what is working well and what could be improved allowing us to share local issues with decision-makers who have the power to make changes.

Every three months we produce this report to raise awareness about patient experience and share recommendations on how services could be improved.

Click here to read the full report

Spotlight/Healthspot

14th December 2023Patient information, Young People

Did you know at Spotlight we offer an amazing range of support options for young people to encourage a healthy lifestyle through our Get Active programme.

Our Get Active programme offers accessible and flexible support including one to one support, Fit Club sessions, Beginners Boxing, Dance, Skate Boarding, Football, Basketball and Healthy Eating through Lunch Club and more. Our programmes are tailored to young people in a way that is fun and social within their peer group.

Spotlight is a space for young people only that also helps them access fitness in a supported environment, with the motivation and support of specially trained youth workers.

We are here to support young people with excess weight concerns while having a focus on building up self-esteem and supporting positive mental and emotional wellbeing.

Our bespoke GP service Health Spot, a free service for young people in Tower Hamlets, helps put young people in control of their health care by being easily accessible within our youth space. Providing care for young people who need more intensive specialist support.

For more information, please head to:

www.wearespotlight.com 

Get Active

Health Spot

If you’d like to talk to us about our programmes please don’t hesitate to get in touch: 

Ade Akande – Sports Development Lead: ade@wearespotlight.com

Treaser Jassal – Youth Support Lead: Treaser@wearespotlight.com

Khadija Begum – Youth Service Manager Khadija@wearespotlight.com

General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR)

14th October 2021Patient information

Dear Patients,

On Thursday 2nd September 2021 the General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR), allowing patient data from GP records to be extracted and sent to NHS Digital for the purposes of planning and research, was put off again indefinitely. This is after more than one million people opted out of the NHS data-sharing in one month.

GP Practices in Tower Hamlets, have been at the forefront of this debate over the government plan to share medical records where we raised concerns about confidentiality. Refusal to hand over patient data until certain conditions were met was started via a letter by GPs in Tower Hamlets and then signed by a total of 113 GP Practices across the country.

This is great news however, there is still caution and we believe the government has yet to convince us that patient data will be safe.

Patients can still decide to formally opt-out by sending us a form, certifying their choice of not sharing their GP patient data with NHS Digital for planning and research purposes. Follow this link to download the opt-out form: https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/.

If patients also want to stop their non-GP data, such as a hospital or clinic treatments, or any anonymised data previously extracted by NHS digital, being used for purposes other than their direct care (e.g. for research and planning), patients need to opt-out by filling in an online form to prevent this information being processed any further. This form can be completed directly on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/manage-your-choice/.