Healthwatch Portsmouth is looking for organisational board members - come along to our first interim board meeting.

Healthwatch Portsmouth is a new local body being created to help people get the best out of their local health and social care services. Whether it’s improving them today or helping shape them for tomorrow, Healthwatch is intended to act as the local watchdog; enabling a  community voice, influencing the design and delivery of local services where appropriate, providing challenge and enabling choice. It forms part of a number of changes introduced under last year's Health & Social Care Act and will take over some of the previous responsibilities of the Portsmouth Local Involvement Network (LINk).

We are currently recruiting the Healthwatch Portsmouth Interim Board and are seeking expressions of interest from relevant organisations who could serve as co-opted board members.

What is Healthwatch?

See what the Healthwatch development group have done over the past year

For the last year a development group have been working hard to get ready for the start of Healthwatch and to test out how it can work best for local people.

A report of all that work is now available and can be viewed by clicking here.

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