News and reports

The Annual Meeting due to be held at the Rutland Community Hub in Oakham on 13 September has been postponed and will be rescheduled.

We have taken the decision to postpone our annual meeting which was scheduled to be held on Tuesday 13 September 2022 in person at the Rutland Community Hub Gover Room. A new date will be publicised in due course.

When The NHS starts the autumn booster rollout in early September, it will be using the next generation, bivalent vaccine, subject to supply.

Leicestershire Partnership Trust is carrying out major refurbishments to Rutland Memorial Hospital in Oakham.

We will be booking various outreach and engagement events over the coming months to share information about Healthwatch Rutland and to hear your NHS health and social feedback.

Keep up to date with local news and Healthwatch Rutland updates for Summer 2022

Admiral Nurses give practical and emotional support to people with dementia as well as their families and carers.

Everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster and a flu jab this autumn, as the NHS plans to increase protection against respiratory viruses ahead of winter.

Our dental health is so important to our overall health, we want to see NHS dental provision in Rutland meeting the needs of the county.

In April 2022 the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of Health and Social Care in England carried out its inspection of Oakham Medical Practice.

Our work over the past year has focused on ensuring that the public and patient voice is heard as early and loudly as possible in the development and transformation of health and care services across Rutland.

We are aware that at the moment, there are no dental practices in Rutland with capacity to offer general NHS dental care to new adult patients and capacity for children is limited.