The Dismal Record Record of Labor to Give an independent voice for health patients and social care keeps “offstage” news of Death of Healthwatch England. Twenty years ago, as the chair of the commission for the patient and public involvement in the health, suddenly I was called to the past minister of Labor, Rosie Winterton, who was considered to be considered the commission to be called. It is only set in 2003 with anger about eliminating successful community communities in the year.
Disappointment of thousands of patients and service users who give their time and effort with the new system is unattractive, that some have been able to participate in a series of community joining system, which never gets the land.
The conservative government has left it to meet the loss of voices of health users and social care. In 2013, it established Healthatch England, gradually surrounded by heavy cynicism, establishing the independent, local community network of every English local authority.
The HealthWatch Network involves many thousands of people to bring the experience to the service users to suffer, using the actual local knowledge, referred to a lasting confidence in the principles of a quality NHS and the social care system is free at the point of use.
Re-erase many of the known critical friends whose support working can be expected to attract and who now express their views in other ways.
Grant Grant
Outgoing chair, healthwatch haringey
