Better Health and Social Care for our Community.

  Hampshire Local Involvement Network (LINk) gives you the opportunity to influence your local health and care services. Anyone can get involved, and it has been set up to make sure that people in Hampshire get the health and social care services they need.
Hampshire LINk wants to hear about your experiences of health and social care services and your ideas for improvements or changes. It has the power to implement small changes and influence big changes.

What is a LINk?
LINks are made up of individuals and community groups who work together to improve local services. The job of a LINk is to find out what people like and dislike about local services and work with the people who plan and run them to help make them better. This may involve talking directly to health and social care professionals about a service that is not being offered or suggesting ways that an existing service could be made better.
LINks also have powers to help with the tasks and to make sure changes happen.

Why get involved?
There are a number of benefits to becoming involved in a LINk, which include:
getting attention for neglected issues or ideas influencing those who make decisions about new or existing services helping the community speak with a stronger local voice helping services provide better care

Be part of a LINk It’s up to you how and when you get involved - you can just comment on issues when contacted or you can get more involved – by helping to raise awareness of an issue or by helping to find solutions (for example - meeting providers or being part of a working group).