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Making sure NHS leaders and decision makers hear your voice and use your feedback to improve care

At Healthwatch Barnsley, we are here to listen to your views about your treatment and care from your local NHS services. We will then share your feedback with the service providers and use our influence to make sure that change happens. By speaking up, services can be improved, or services can be commended for working well. It helps to ensure that good practice is maintained and reflects the needs

of Barnsley. Share your experiences with us and help improve health and social care in Barnsley for you and your family.

03/09/2026

🎉🎉 When you set the team a challenge to come up with a creative post to promote our discharge from hospital project........and they come up with this 🥰🥰

📢📢Introducing our very own Dr Polly and Paramedic Ned Sheeran, making their acting debut 🎭 are they worthy of a BAFTA 🏆😎 You decide 😂

‼‼ Now for the serious bit, we are currently involved in a project with Healthwatch England looking at peoples experiences of hospital discharge, have you been discharged from hospital 🚑 in the last 12 months?
💊Did you feel that you were discharged before you were ready?
💊Did your discharge not go to plan?
💊Did you end up being re-admitted to hospital?

We would love to hear your experiences, you can fill in our survey online
➡ https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Barnsley
Or you can contact us via
☎ 01226 320106
📧 [email protected]

01/09/2026

Samuel our Community Voice Officer is all set up at Dodworth Library this morning, waiting to capture your experiences of health and social care in Barnsley. Why not pop along and have a chat? Barnsley Libraries Dodworth, Stainborough and Tankersley Ward Alliance

29/08/2026

‼️ Our Community Voice Officer Sam, will be at Dodworth Library 📚☕ this week to gather your feedback on health and social care in Barnsley.
Have you visited your GP, Denstist or Optician recently? How was it? Sam would love you to share your experience with him - why not pop in and say hello between 10am and 12 noon 👋

26/08/2026

Samuel is all set up at Royston Library this morning to capture your feedback on health and social care in Barnsley! why not pop along and say hello 👋🫖📚Barnsley Libraries Royston Village Group Royston, Barnsley Group

24/08/2026

‼ Don't forget, Sam our Community Voice Officer is at Grimethorpe Library this morning 📚🫖 why not go and say hello 👋 and share any experiences of health and social care in Barnsley. Barnsley Libraries Grimethorpe local Grimethorpe Surgery

22/08/2026

‼️Our Community Voice Officer Sam, will be back out on his travels around the borough next week. He will be at Grimethorpe Library 📚on Monday 24th August between 10am and 12 noon.
He will then be visiting Royston Library 📚 on Wednesday 26th August between 10am and 12 noon.
Sam is collecting feedback and experiences from residents who have accessed health and social care in Barnsley to help improve services in the town.

19/08/2026

‼️📢Our Community Voice Officer Sam is out and about again today to gather your feedback on health and social care services in Barnsley. You can find him today at Cudworth Library 📚☕between 10am and 12 noon - why not pop along and say hi 😀 Barnsley Libraries

18/08/2026

📢Why not pop along to Pen*stone Library 📚 this morning and say hello to Samuel, one of our Community Voice Officers! Sam is waiting to hear about your experiences with Health and Social Care providers in Barnsley so we can celebrate the good things that are happening 🥳 and pass on feedback about what could be improved. He will be there until 12 noon today 😀 Barnsley LibrariesBarnsley EssentialsBarnsley CVS

08/06/2026

Today marks the launch of Carers Week and this years theme is "Building Carer Friendly Communities! 😍
Why not join Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for their unpaid carers coffee morning ☕🍰🍪
📣📣 The event will take place on Thursday 11 June, 10:00am – 11:30am at True North Bar, Market Kitchen, Barnsley Town Centre.
It’s a relaxed drop-in session where carers can pop in for a coffee, have a chat, and find out more about the support available.
We hope to see you there!

04/06/2026

Did you know you can order repeat prescriptions in the NHS App?

If you take medicine regularly, you'll usually have a repeat prescription. This means you can order your medicine without having to see a GP every time. Handy, right?

Here's how to request it in just 4 easy steps:

1️⃣ On the homepage, tap prescriptions, and then tap repeat prescription.

2️⃣ Check your chosen pharmacy (or choose one if you’ve not done so before). Tap continue.

3️⃣ Pick your medicines from the list and tap continue.

4️⃣ Happy with everything? Hit request prescription, and it’s all sorted!

Click here for more info ⬇️

http://nhs.uk/app-prescriptions

Address

23 Queens Road
Barnsley
S711AN

Telephone

+441226320106

Website

http://www.healthwatchbarnsley.org.uk/

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