Healthwatch County Durham is your local health and social care champion. We listen to what you tell us about your experience, what needs to be improved and what you want for the future. We are independent, so people trust us and tell us what they think. We hear from people about the NHS and social care services, so we’re uniquely placed to understand what is happening. We collaborate with them to find solutions, they can talk to us openly, and we encourage them to involve the public in making services the best they can be.

Reaching out to our community

We strive to make sure we hear from as wide a range of our diverse community as possible. We want to tell the people who make decisions and change things about the experiences everyone has with health and care services. We understand that factors such as culture, location, wealth, education, environment and discrimination can lead to worse health outcomes, and we support the strong consensus that this must change. At Healthwatch, we stand ready to help by doing more to amplify the voices of communities that go unheard and reduce the barriers they face."