Do you understand how NHS services are changing?
Our country’s health and care services face big challenges. We are living longer, but a growing number of people need help with long-term health conditions, adding pressures to services.
To help overcome these issues, health and social care services are undergoing significant changes to become more integrated and better at providing the support that local people want. To make this happen, it is vital that services talk to people to find out what they need and then use this information to provide more targeted care.
Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) were introduced in 2015 to address these issues and improve how the NHS and council-run care services work, but two years on are they working for people?
Click here to read the full article from Healthwatch England.
