Your Views

What is it like for you when you go into hospital, or receive care from local NHS services in Staffordshire?  Everyone has a story to tell about the NHS, good or bad, and it’s really important that the people who run our local services hear them and even more importantly, act on them.

We’re working with Patient Opinion who run a website (www.patientopinion.org.uk) on which you can share your experiences.  You don’t have to give your name, you offer your story annonymously.  Patient Opinion are all about putting patient’s views at the heart of decision making about how our local NHS services are run and the LINk want to help make that happen.

Patient Opinion work with NHS trusts to help them understand how to make the most of the new tools of the web in hearing from their community and responding to what people need and want from their local services.  They always try to ensure that the right person hears the story to enable them to get that vital insight into what it’s really like for you and to make a difference.   You can see people’s stories from Staffordshire and the trusts’ responses in the blue box above and you can add your own story by clicking on the orange highlighted Patient Opinion wording.  We’re not talking about surveys and questionnaires which give your time in hospital a 1-5 score, we’re talking about your story, what made a difference (or could have made a difference) in your own words.