Healthwatch Staffordshire

Healthwatch Staffordshire is the consumer champion giving local people in Staffordshire a voice to promote and sustain quality health and social care services.

Healthwatch Staffordshire are an independent watchdog that has been formed to make local health and social care services better for people by ensuring that their views and experiences are taken into account by those entrusted to design and run services.

Like all local Healthwatch bodies, Healthwatch Staffordshire has a statutory seat on the local Health and Wellbeing Boards – the body that oversees health and social care in the city and county. We also have the statutory power to enter and view health and social care services using our trained volunteers. Healthwatch Staffordshire has a place on the new Quality Surveillance Groups that are being set up in the NHS to monitor provider quality.