Meet Carole Hembest Healthwatch Croydon's longest serving volunteer
Carole Hembest has volunteered with Healthwatch Croydon for over seven years and her contribution is invaluable. She is contributed to a range of health and social care research projects and is a excellent community champion for the work that Healthwatch Croydon does. She is a loved member of the team and we sincerly appreaciate the contribution she has made over the years. In her volunteer roles elsewhere Carole has earned the 'Make a Difference Volunteering Award'. With nursing colleagues citing:
"I am nominating Carole because she is very kind and helpful. She has been working on our Lewis Lloyd Ward for a while as a Volunteer. Whenever she is on duty, she went the extra mile and she has a great smile that brightens up our heart. She has a lovely smile with kindness toward to the Patients and the staff. She loves spending time talking to patients. I personally love seeing those who is kind and hard working. Carole well deserves the Make a Difference Award with a huge thanks from Lewis Lloyd team."
Read Carole's experience of volunteering with Healthwatch Croydon.
"I have enjoyed meeting people from all walks of life while doing outreach. With Healthwatch Croydon, we have gone into a fair number of Healthcare settings, Pharmacy's, A+E, Out-patient Dept., Dentists to name just a few, getting feed back from patients, some good, some not so good.
I have also enjoyed helping Data Analysis (Thematic Analysis), which I found both enjoyable and very interesting seeing trends on different categories.
The value I think Healthwatch brings to the community is that we try to influence better services for residents in Croydon.
Healthwatch Croydon does different projects throughout the year to try to improve Health Services in the Croydon Area as we are a patient voice."
