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Rutland County Council has created a Healthy Rutland Grant Scheme for 2018/19 that will provide funding to encourage local projects that will improve health and wellbeing, promote independence and reduce the impact of long term health conditions.

NHS England wants to hear your views about how you feel child orthodontic services should be delivered in the future.

We are really pleased to announce that we have been awarded a bursary from the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) to set up Young Healthwatch Rutland so that local young people can raise their issues and concerns.

Keep up to date with local news and Healthwatch Rutland updates for October 2018

NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) have published plans to develop out-of-hours or “urgent care services”, offering GP and nurse appointments when practices are closed on weekday evenings, weekends and holidays

Part of our local Healthwatch programme is to carry out Enter and View visits. Healthwatch Rutland authorised representatives carry out these visits to health and social care services to find out how they are being run and make recommendations.

The Better Care Together (BCT) Partnership (previously known also as the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership) is inviting the public to a series of open engagement events to hear about, and discuss, what is happening to improve services.

Rutland County Council has created a Healthy Rutland Grant Scheme for 2018/19 that will provide funding to encourage local projects that will improve health and wellbeing, promote independence and reduce the impact of long term health conditions.

People in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland are being asked to share their views on healthcare that patients receive at home and in local communities as the local NHS looks to improve community health services.

We fully supports local Councillors’ recommendation that University Hospitals of Leicester Trust and local Clinical Commissioning Groups pause their plans to reconfigure Intensive Care Units (ICU) and offer full public consultation on the plans.

These policies support the legal requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the UK’s interpretation of GDPR), which places certain obligations on CTCIC, its staff and those who process data on our behalf.

Volunteers for Connected Together CIC, including Healthwatch Northamptonshire (HWN) and Healthwatch Rutland (HWR) are supported by the volunteer leads - Katie Bayliss based in the HWN office, and by Amy Crawford for HWR.