Getting Involved

Local involvement networks (LINks) will enable genuine involvement of a far greater number of people than is currently available, ensuring local communities have a stronger voice in the process of commissioning health and social care and enabling them to influence key decisions about the services they both use and pay for.

Local authorities will have a duty to make contractual arrangements for the involvement of people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of health and social care services.

LINks are being introduced to help strengthen the system that enables communities to influence the care they receive.  Backed up by certain powers, LINks will:

• provide everyone in the community – from individuals to voluntary groups - with the chance to say what they think about local health and social care services – what is working and what is not

• give people the chance to influence how services are planned and run.

• feedback to services what people have said about services so that things can be improved.

For further information on LINks please download the document below or contact The Customer Service Team on FREEFONE 0800 0155330.

Download the latest LINks Bulletin 

Want to know more or become involved with LINk then download the documents below