G5674 - Healthwatch Tower Hamlets (HWTH)
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<p>The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires each local authority to have in place a local Healthwatch organisation</p>
<p>Tower Hamlets Council is committed to ensuring our local Healthwatch can be an effective consumer champion for our residents and make a difference through contributing and achieving improvements in the borough’s health and care system. The Council has agreed a refined service model for Healthwatch Tower Hamlets (HWTH) which draws on best practice and builds on the local achievements of our current provider.</p>
<p>Going forward, HWTH will: </p>
<p>• Carry out the statutory functions; <br />• Be a representative corporate body, embedded in local communities;<br />• Engage, involve and proactively reach out to the full range of diverse communities in Tower Hamlets, enabling residents to have their voices heard; <br />• Act as local consumer champion representing the collective voice of local people (meaning patients, service users, carers and the public), on the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board;<br />• Develop robust partnerships with key health and social care stakeholders with a view of contributing towards positive outcomes for the residents<br />• Have real influence with commissioners, providers, regulators and Healthwatch England using their knowledge of what matters to local people; and <br />• Achieve tangible changes/ improvements (both small-scale and strategic) to local health and social services, through holding the system to account and identifying solutions to problems</p>
<p>The contract period is for 24 months with an option to extend for up to a further 24 months.<br />The anticipated contract start date is 1st April 2022.</p>
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From 29/10/2021 12:00 to 29/11/2021 12:00
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London
Greater London
E14 2BG
United Kingdom