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Help us improve care

Whether you use or work for health and care services, you can play your part in helping to ensure people can access the care they need. Volunteer for Healthwatch and help make the NHS better for everyone.  

How to volunteer

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Have your say 

For services to change, they need to hear from you. Share your experiences of health and social care, and encourage others to do the same, so that our NHS and social care services can spot issues and know how to improve.

It only takes five minutes to complete in our short, confidential survey. 

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Over 380,000

people shared their story about health and social care story with us.

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Promote your local Healthwatch

Encourage people to have their say to help improve your local health and social care services by downloading a poster and putting it up in your local area. 

Find your local Healthwatch 

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Volunteer with us

Find out more about how you can make a difference to local health and care services by volunteering with us.

Find out about volunteering

“I decided to get involved with Healthwatch in order to change things. I believe that if you want to change a service you have to bring your life experiences. If you want the service to work for you, you have to be involved in designing it.”

Rose, Healthwatch volunteer

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Stay up to date with what people are telling us about health and social care, our advice and information, and latest reports. 

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