The input of local people, partners and local organisations is invaluable to us in shaping healthcare services.
We often have involvement exercises running, and the details of any that are currently active will be available below - simply click the title to read more.
Current ICB involvement opportunities
Current partner consultation/engagement activities
We want all people in Sandwell to “feel good and function well” to give them the best opportunity to live their life to its full potential.
Anyone can have poor mental health at any time in their lives. However, people in Sandwell have been shown to have high rates of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, as well as more serious mental illness.
Men are less likely to seek mental health support or get support when they are in a mental health crisis. Suicide is the biggest killer of males aged 5 – 49 years in England. In Sandwell 79% of deaths by suicide are men. We want to change this by raising awareness of men’s mental health and enable men to access support sooner.
We understand that you can have good mental health and still have stress and sadness from time to time. But when you're mentally healthy, you're able to cope with the ups and downs of life. When you can’t cope, we want to have support and help available in all of our communities and towns in Sandwell to help you feel better sooner.
To help achieve this, we want to ensure that there is a wide range of community-based mental health support and services for men available in Sandwell. We can only do this by asking men who live and work in Sandwell about their mental health and what services and support are most helpful. We are also interested in hearing the views of others who support men in their personal or work life.
We are also seeking feedback and information from organisations in Sandwell to help us to better understand current provision and services to support men’s mental health and wellbeing.
Click here: https://consultationhub.sandwell.gov.uk/public-health/mens-mental-health-campaign/
Engaging Communities Solutions CIC (ECS) are the providers of local Healthwatch in Bedford Borough, Halton, Sandwell, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall and Warrington.
We are carrying out a survey across all seven areas about people's knowledge and experiences of Pharmacy First services that were launched in 2024.
Access the survey here: engagingcommunities.welcomesyourfeedback.net/s/e4ru06
For more information, you can visit both Healthwatch Sandwell and Healthwatch Walsall's websites.
If you have used Walsall urology services in the last 18 months, Healthwatch Walsall would like you to share your experience of using the service via an online survey. They want to know if Walsall patients were happy with the treatment and care they received. To find out more, and to get involved, please take part in this online questionnaire, or you can call 0800 470 1660.
Following on from a series of public and citizen engagement events in 2023, Healthwatch Sandwell are now hosting a second round of events to take place in each of the six towns of Sandwell, on behalf of the Sandwell Health and Care Partnership.
The original events aimed to identify what matters most to local people around health and social care and other factors contributing to their health.
The purpose of the upcoming sessions is to provide an update on the top priorities that were raised by local people. There will also be updates on any related work now being carried out across the partnership and an opportunity for people tell us whether any priorities are missing and where there may be gaps in local services.
Please visit our events page for the to view upcoming workshops.
To find out more about the previous town events and view the report please click here.
