Healthwatch Darlington helps you and your family get the best out of health and social care in Darlington. Tell us your experience of local health and social care. GP's - Hospitals - Opticians - Dentists - Nursing Homes - Care Agencies - Pharmacists
We are independent and powerful, we make health and social care providers answerable to YOU, the people who use their services.
That YOU, the people have a voice that can be heard, which is vital to making such local services better for everyone.
We can help you to find the right services you need through our information and signposting services.
Healthwatch helps you and your family get the best out of health and social services in Darlington.
Healthwatch Darlington can help you to find the right services you need through our information and signposting service.
We can provide information about the services that are available to you - helping you to make the right choices.
We tell providers what you think about their service, and we also tell the people who pay for your services what you think about them, and what your experiences were.
We pass on our finding to the Care Quality Commission and Healthwatch England.
Every voice counts when it comes to shaping the future of health and social care, and when it comes to improving it for today. Healthwatch Darlington brings the voice and influence of local people to the development and delivery of local services.
People need to feel that Healthwatch Darlington belongs to and reflects them and their local community and must feel approachable, practical and impartial, being able to act on behalf of local people.
We're helping you to shape and improve the services you use.
We're an open organisation and want to make it easy for you to talk to us.
We're inclusive & we want people from every part of your community to join us.
Ask us what we're doing & we'll always tell you what's happening.
We're here to help services to improve.
We're engaging with people in your community & if you haven't met us yet, please get in touch!