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It's been a great year of growth for Healthwatch Islington. We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services in the borough.

GP websites can be hard to navigate and present many barriers to patients who are not confident online. We've been working with residents and commissioners to make things better.

In Islington, participation in bowel, breast, and cervical cancer screening programmes is below the national and the London average.

Decision-makers responsible for GP services have worked with us to produce this resource, which is being distributed across general practice in Islington to support providers to improve their messaging.

Yussuf Ahmed is the Coordinator at Islington Somali Community, an organisation belonging to our Diverse Communities Health Voice partnership. In this guest blog, Yussuf talks about the benefits of the collaboration.

Our analysis of GP websites in January 2023

We spoke to 65 residents from communities experiencing health inequalities. All were smokers or ex-smokers. Few had taken up the offer of support to give up.

A new scheme could see women across England save hundreds of pounds yearly on their Hormone Replacement Therapy with a prepayment certificate.

We spoke to 98 smokers and ex-smokers from communities experiencing health inequalities.

We asked people about their experiences of cervical screening, bowel cancer screening, and breast screening services.

We listened to feedback from LGBTQI+ residents on a wide range of services including healthcare, social care, mental health support, and housing.

LGBTQI+ residents shared their experiences of accessing health, mental health, social care, and housing services.