Welcome
This website covers the LINks for which Help and Care is the Host Organisation, namely:
Bournemouth; Bracknell Forest; Dorset; Isle of Wight; Oxfordshire; Poole; Slough; Somerset; Torbay; West Berkshire; West Sussex;
Windsor, Ascot & Maidenhead; Wokingham
Ever wanted to speak up about a health or social care service in your area but not known how? It might have been to offer an opinion on how 
things could be improved, or talk about an experience – good or bad. Well, now you have the opportunity.
A LINk (Local Involvement Network) is a network of local people and groups. It listens to what you have to say about health and social care services in your area, and tells councils and the NHS what it has discovered. They are then legally obliged to give the LINk any information it asks for and to respond to any recommendations the LINk makes, so that services can get better.
Learn more about LINks
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Tell us your stories
Your local LINk wants to hear about your experiences of health and social care. You can help to make the first steps towards better care services. Please tell us what you think about hospitals, supported housing, day care, GP services, residential homes, sexual health services, dentistry, and anything else about health and social care in your area. Contact us by phone, email, post or tell us online now by going to the discussions pages to have your say.
Developing LINks effectively
Results from the last online opinion polls
Deaf and disabled people answer a recent survey
Learn the F.A.S.T technique
Read the results
What's Going On...
Take a look at what's happening in your local LINks area and around the UK with our What's Going On page
Soundbites
Here is a Wordle, which was created using some the great feedback we had about LINks during 2008:
