Your Experience with Healthwatch in Greater Manchester
A new Bill has been published that proposes significant changes to how people’s voices are heard in health and social care. The NHS Modernisation Bill sets out proposals that would abolish Healthwatch and our organisations would end and you would have to share your feedback through the NHS and councils.
It is important to emphasise that these are proposals at this stage. The Bill will go through Parliament and may be subject to amendment before any changes are finalised. For now, nothing has changed in practice. Local Healthwatch continue to listen to people’s experiences of care, provide information and advice about local services and share feedback and evidence with services to support improvements.
However we are helping the NHS and the Mayor of Greater Manchester to prepare for the future and if Healthwatch does end, what could replace it and what is important about it? We want to hear your views.