Healthwatch Lincolnshire Cost of Living Press Release and Survey

Is the cost of living affecting your health. The rising cost of living (rising household energy bills, inflation and interest rates) is adversely affecting people’s mental health and wellbeing. Many charities and campaign groups are warning that people on the lowest and lower incomes have been hit the hardest.

We have also heard from you about the impact the rising cost of living is having on people.

As a result, we have started a piece of work to assess the wider health impacts of the cost of living on people and to be able to make appropriate recommendations to health and care services.

Healthwatch Lincolnshire would like to better understand what impact the rising cost-of-living is having on people in our community’s overall wellbeing and ability to access essential health and care services.

Sharing your experiences will help us to identify important issues, and work with the NHS and social care services to improve support for those that need it most. Please do your bit to help yourself and the whole community through these tough times by filling in our quick confidential survey.

Take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2LKC3HQ

You can participate by completing our short online survey which will take about ten minutes to complete or additionally, we would welcome visiting your group to speak to people.  For more information, please contact info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk

Copies of the survey in any other format can be requested by contacting us by email at info@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk or by phone 01205 820 892. People can also contact us to talk through the questions with a member of the team if they would prefer to do this.

For more information please visit www.healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk or contact Dean Odell at Healthwatch Lincolnshire on 01205 820892 or email dean@healthwatchlincolnshire.co.uk