Enter & View - Bognor War Memorial Hospital - July 2019

Healthwatch has a legal power to visit health and social care services and see them in action. This power to Enter and View services offers a way for Healthwatch to meet some of its statutory functions and allows us to identify what is working well with services and where they could be improved.

The purpose of an Enter and View visit is to collect evidence of what works well and what could be improved to make people’s experiences better. We use this evidence to make recommendations and inform changes both for individual services as well as health and social care system-wide.

A team of six Authorised Representatives visited on Friday 31 May 2019. This was an unannounced visits, but we had made the Trust aware we would be visiting the hospital in May.

During our visit, we focused on:

• Observing how people experienced the service through watching and listening
• Speaking to people using the service and their family and friend carers, to find out more about their experiences and views
• Observing the nature and quality of services and speaking to staff.