questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the independent patient and public scrutiny of NHS and social care services following the proposed abolition of local Healthwatch organisations under the Health Bill.
answerText: The aim of our patient and public voice reforms is not to maintain the current independent structures, but to strengthen the patient and public’s voice so it drives real change and improvement to services at all levels of the health and social care system...
heading: Healthwatch