Current consultations

Do you have a passion for improving health and care? Do you want to put your personal experience as a patient, or a family member or friend of a patient to good use? The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Adopting Innovation Hub is looking for people to join a new Citizen Participation Group. The Citizen Participation Group […]

Have you used any of our carer support services? Would you be willing to give some feedback about your experience over sandwiches and cake? Have you been to any of our hubs? Or maybe you’ve been on one of our trips or been to a learning session? Or it could be you used your What […]

Whatever your role as a carer, we want to hear from you. We want to have carers of all ages, and from all parts of the community involved in our new carer council. The council has been set up to ensure the voice of carers is heard throughout the work of Caring Together. Chair of […]

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust (CUH) are looking for current and past cancer patients and carers to join a new Cancer Patient Network. The network will be involved in the project to develop a new Cancer Research Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. CUH has had a Cancer Patient Partnership Group (CPPG) for 10 years […]

Are you someone who has experienced stroke or are you caring for someone affected by stroke?  Do you have an interest in improving health care and a passion for improving patient experience and developing excellent public participation? If you are, the new East of England Stroke Patient, Public Voice and Carer Assurance Group are keen […]

Researchers at the University of Warwick and Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust are looking for children and adolescents with moderate to severe learning disabilities and their parents to take part in a research study on specific phobias. A specific phobia is an extreme fear of a specific object, animal or situation which is so overwhelming […]

Young carers and young adult carers have met with member of the House of Lords. And have been told by Lord Young the peers hearing their experiences were “lost in admiration for what you have done” in their caring roles. The group of Peers also spoke of the need to ensure changes are made to […]

Health and care champion, Healthwatch Cambridgeshire are helping Cambridgeshire County Council find out what you would like from an Independent Living Service – either now or in the future. The Independent Living Service involves building new self-contained homes for life for people with health and care needs. The new homes plan to help people live […]

Have you visited Addenbrooke’s Hospital urgent and emergency care services (including A&E and same day emergency care clinics) in the last 12 months? If you have, Healthwatch Cambridgeshire, your local independent health and care champion, would like to hear about your experiences, the good and not so good. Your feedback will help the hospital provide […]

Steve Acklam shares his experience of being a carer and how you can join the carer council to make a difference. If you are interested, or would like to find out more, don’t hesitate to contact Steve, chair of the carer council, at [email protected] I can’t speak for the many, many other carers looking after […]