Why now?
Last year, Healthwatch received nearly 400,000 experiences of health and social care. This valuable feedback helps us identify where and how services can improve.
But not everyone's voice is being heard.
Our new campaign, Share for Better Care, focuses on engaging with communities who are underrepresented in our national feedback and encourages them to share their experiences of NHS and adult social care.
#ShareForBetterCare is a joint campaign with the Care Quality Commission and is being run in collaboration with the Race Equality Foundation, National Dignity Council and Royal Association for Deaf.
Our campaign, which runs until April 2025, will focus on collecting experiences of people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people from lower-income groups.
Who can get involved?
The campaign has been designed so you can use it to:
- Promote feedback as a positive and caring thing that anyone can do.
- Encourage people to share views about the local issues your community faces.
We want people to know that their feedback, no matter how small, has the power to transform health and social care across the country.
We also want you to encourage your local NHS and social care services to adopt the campaign so that together, we can increase awareness and feedback to help improve services.
What will happen and when?
The campaign will run from February 2024-April 2025 and will be made up of four distinct phases:
- Phase 1: National launch.
- Phase 2: Health inequalities and deprivation.
- Phase 3: Care the way you need it.
- Phase 4: The Staff Perspective.