Wellness watchdog to be set up in Derby

A new health and social care watchdog is being set up to improve the quality of services in Derbyshire.

Healthwatch Derbyshire will operate as an independent organisation and is set to launch before April 2013. It will replace the existing Local Involvement Network (LINks).

It will gather views, information, concerns and experiences and feed them into the development and delivery of local health and social care services.

The scheme aims to ensure that feedback on topics such as GP referrals will be collected and relay them back into the development and delivery of local health services.

For more details on the initiative, click here.