Shaping Health Watch

Shaping Healthwatch

All Local Authorities in England who provide Adult Social Care services have been given the duty to commission a new service called HealthWatch from October 2012. We understand from the Health & Social Care Bill 2011: combined impact assessments that HealthWatch is to be a corporate body that will provide a range of services and support to communities enabling and facilitating improvements in health and social care services. As well as enabling improvements in the delivery and outcomes of health and social care services, HealthWatch will also be responsible for ensuring that the voice of patients, service users, clients and the public are heard and have a demonstrable influence on the decision making, planning and commissioning that takes place in the development or change to local health and social care services. They will have an important relationship with the newly established Health and well Being Boards.

Vision as set out in the HealthWatch Transition Plan published on March 29th 2011 by the DH

Statement of Intent

'HealthWatch will be the independent consumer champion for the public - locally and nationally - to promote better outcomes in health for all and in social care for adults.

HealthWatch will be representative of diverse communities. It will provide intelligence - including evidence from people's views and experiences - to influence the policy, planning, commissioning and delivery of health and social care. Locally, it will also provide information and advice to help people access and make choices about services as well as access independent complaints advocacy to support people if they need help to complain about NHS services.

HealthWatch will have credibility and public trust through being responsive and acting on concerns when things go wrong, and operating effectively and efficiently.'

Please see below for the Shaping Healthwatch In Bournemouth Dorset & Poole, findings from an engagement exercise with key stakeholders May 2011

Final Combined LHW Executive Summary (.pdf) (82 KB)
Final Combined LHW Report (.pdf) (224 KB)
Final Combined LHW Report Appendix 1 (.pdf) (238 KB)
Final Discussion Document BDP PDF (.pdf) (217 KB)
Final Discussion Document BDP Word (.doc) (1.67 MB)
HealthWatch Briefing Note 3 (.pdf) (25 KB)
V3 Shaping Healthwatch BDP Report PDF (.pdf) (769 KB)
V3 Shaping Healthwatch BDP Report Word (.docx) (218 KB)

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