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During the COVID-19 pandemic there have been considerable challenges across Sussex care homes, including how to keep families in touch with their relatives.

On the 10th November Healthwatch in Sussex1 hosted an online webinar for families and friends of care home residents. It explored the impact and potential solutions to the separation of care home residents and their loved ones in a pandemic.

The conversations outlined in this report were with a sample who completed the ‘Accessing health and care services: findings during the Coronavirus pandemic’ survey.

Update on dentist services in East Sussex and what’s being done to improve NHS dental services.

NHS dental services should have resumed from early June 2020.  As with so many other services, the need to keep people safe from the virus continues to mean there is less time available for dentists to talk to and treat patients under the NHS.

Interim headline findings from the Healthwatch in Sussex and Sussex NHS Commissioners’ Digital Engagement Survey 2020: Preferences towards the future of health and social care services in Sussex

What would you do – a review of what local people told Healthwatch across three areas about their views on the NHS Long Term Plan?

The findings in this report have been drawn from responses to a country wide survey commissioned by Healthwatch England to stimulate public feedback on the NHS Long Term Plan.

It analyses local views gathered in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex and a small contribution from East Surrey residents (not statistical data) that reflects public opinion on priorities for the future of the NHS in Sussex; known as the Sussex & East Surrey Partnership Sustainability & Transformation Partnership (STP).