Insight bank

Access to GP services for children and young people in west Essex

This report aims to capture the thoughts, emotions and lived experience of those people trying to access GP services within west Essex for themselves or on behalf of a friend or loved one. From this, we aim to provide key learnings and recommendations in order to help develop policies and processes to match the needs of the local population.

Accessing GP services in Harlow and Uttlesford

The aim of this project was to explore people’s experiences of accessing GP services in Harlow and Uttlesford in order to inform the Hertfordshire and west Essex Integrated Care System.

Accessing GP services: views from Broxbourne patients

A survey in to views from residents in Broxbourne about how they access GP services, what challenges they encounter and barriers to accessing services. Report made recommendations to the HWE ICB primary care workforce around improving access to these services.

Accessing GP services: views from Hertfordshire’s parents and carers

To gather lived experiences from parents and carers on their views of accessing GP services in Herts and to identify recommendations for improvements.

An insight into health and care access, including self-care for adults with a learning disability

The aim of this project was to gather people's experiences of accessing and using primary care across west Essex. The focus was to gather feedback and lived experience from adults with learning disabilities and their carers/families and support workers.

Autistic people’s experiences of GP services in Hertfordshire

Carers views and experiences of accessing support from their GP practice

Explore whether unpaid carers are registered as a carer with their GP practice, and if so, whether they are receiving the additional support they should be entitled to.

Cervical screening: your views and experiences

To gather lived experience to feed directly into the Integrated Care Board (ICB) Primary Care workstream.

Experience of living with diabetes in west Essex

This report aims to take advantage of listening to and understanding what people living with diabetes in West Essex are experiencing and identify areas where the systems that are supposed to be in place are not functioning as they should.

Experiences in west Essex of the menopause and perimenopause. “How are we meant to function?”

The aim of this project was to canvas lived experiences of the west Essex populous around menopause and perimenopause and analyse this data in relation to current and future service provision.