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North Tees & Hartlepool and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts have come together under a ‘Group Model’ to improve healthcare across Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, and County Durham. The joint trusts will hereby be referred to as University Hospitals Tees. This report summarises the findings of a community engagement project led by the Healthwatch Tees Valley Network, which gathered feedback from patients, carers, and the wider community to help the hospitals focus on areas for improvement. Read on to find out what recommendations were made.

Home care services involve care workers visiting a person in their home, providing assistance with important daily tasks that the individual cannot manage to do independently. People of all ages access home care services, but people aged over 65 are the largest single user group. Home care service provision is means tested, with some people receiving services free of charges, others paying part of the cost and some the full cost of services.

Read on to find out the outcome of HWH doing this piece of work