LPG5029 Healthwatch Tower Hamlets

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires each local authority to have in place a local Healthwatch organisation. This organisation has the following statutory duties: 1. Promoting and supporting the involvement of local people in the commissioning, the provision and scrutiny of local care services. 2. Enabling local people to monitor the standard of provision of local care services and whether and how local care services could and ought to be improved. 3. Obtaining the views of local people regarding their need...