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Between May and July 2025, five Healthwatch volunteers reviewed public/patient facing information about Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) across 55 GP practices in East Sussex using their websites and follow-up requests

In April-May 2025, we ran a survey asking women and girls aged 14+ about their experiences of health and care services in East Sussex.

This quarterly report highlights how we have listened to the voices of the public, patients and partners and used people’s feedback, experiences and preferences to help shape health and social care in East Sussex from April – June 2025.

We regularly review the experiences you told us through public events, surveys, Feedback Centre and Information & Signposting enquiries.

Healthwatch uses your feedback with health and care decision-makers to seek a positive difference, and this document sets out the issues you raised and any changes you have helped us to deliver during June 2025.

We have been delivering our Listening Tours since 2017, visiting areas across East Sussex to capture people’s views and experiences of health and care. In 2024-2025 we refreshed our Listening Tour approach to reach more of the county more regularly.

We are delighted to share ‘Unlocking the power of people-driven care’, our Annual Report for 2024-25. It highlights how we have listened to the voices of the public, patients and partners and used people’s feedback, experiences and preferences to help shape health and social care in East Sussex, and across Sussex.

From February to May 2025, Healthwatch talked to people in Hastings about primary care, social isolation, social determinants of health, and what supports their wellbeing.

In May 2025, Healthwatch in Sussex wanted to better understand the challenges carers face when accessing health and wellbeing services for their own health.

We regularly review the experiences you told us through public events, surveys, Feedback Centre and Information & Signposting enquiries.

Healthwatch uses your feedback with health and care decision-makers to seek a positive difference, and this document sets out the issues you raised and any changes you have helped us to deliver during May 2025.

During two phases of engagement in 2024, we heard from 358 people in the waiting rooms of Emergency Departments (ED) or Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) at East Sussex hospitals, about the journey they had taken before attending.

In April 2025, Healthwatch in Sussex sought people’s experiences of satisfaction with their local NHS services. This included what services people felt most satisfied with and what services people felt most dissatisfied with.

We regularly review the experiences you told us through public events, surveys, Feedback Centre and Information & Signposting enquiries.

Healthwatch uses your feedback with health and care decision-makers to seek a positive difference, and this document sets out the issues you raised and any changes you have helped us to deliver during April 2025.