Commissioning Healthwatch Northamptonshire 2018-2021 Consultation
Commissioning Healthwatch Northamptonshire 2018-2021 Consultation
Healthwatch is an independent consumer champion for people who use health and social care services. Its job is to ensure that local voices are heard and that people’s views and experiences are used to improve existing services and to help shape future services. Where concerns and problems about care services have been identified they will ensure that the right people know and check that action is taken to resolve them and prevent them from happening again.
Each local authority is required by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to make arrangements to establish and maintain a local Healthwatch organisation in its area. Healthwatch Northamptonshirehas been established since 2013 and its current contract ends in March 2018.
Northamptonshire County Council are re-commissioning their Healthwatch services, with the new service being live from 1 April 2018, and we would like to hear your views to help us explore and shape how Healthwatch in Northamptonshire will look from April 2018 onwards.
After the consultation has ended we will consider the views of local people and organisations along with any other relevant information and will use these to develop the best model for Healthwatch in Northamptonshire.
You can have your say in a number of different ways:
- Complete our online questionnaire
- Write to Engagement, Participation and Involvement Team, Northamptonshire County Council, One Angel Square, Angel Street, Northampton NN1 1ED
- Or e-mail EPIT@northamptonshire.gov.uk
This consultation closes on 1st September 2017.
Details of this consultation and other past and present consultations are available on Northamptonshire County Council’s Consultation Register.