Health watchdog volunteer Stuart Davies wants to hear from you

* Stuart Davies wants to hear from you on health matters. 

Former Llangollen county councillor Stuart Davies has become a volunteer for health watchdog body Llais Cymru North Wales.

Llais aims to make sure people's views and experiences are used by decision-makers to plan and deliver better health and social care services.  

When things go wrong it has independent and trained complaints advocates who can support people to make complaints.

Stuart Davies said: "Over the next month myself and other volunteers want to know what experiences  - good or bad - people in North Wales are having in relation to two specific services. 

"With cataracts we'd like to know people's experiences on waiting times for surgery, access to ophthalmic services, what impact is this having on people's lives, such as ability to drive, work, care for others, are people finding that they are having to try and access treatment from outside of North Wales and if so are they having to pay for this treatment?

"On the Covid and flu vaccination programme we want to hear about your experience them -  how is it being rolled out in your GP practice, how easy is it to find out information about the availability of vaccines in your local area, have you heard feedback from others in your family or community about their experiences? Please do let us know.

"We would like our volunteers to share with us anything that they are experiencing, hearing or reading about in relation to health and social care services in their community. 

"We would also like our volunteers to help us to recruit volunteers to Llais North Wales. 

"We want to work with you to learn how we can do this successfully and we recognise that this will take time. 

"In the meantime we ask our volunteers to help us with this vital priority over the coming months. Whilst we do not have the national training programme just yet, there is plenty we can do and have done in terms of local training, mentoring and buddying up."

* If you have any experiences in North Wales you wish to share OR become a volunteer, then Llais can be contacted directly on northwalesyourvoice@llaiscymru.org

Stuart Davies can be contacted by email on llaisvolunteer@gmail.com

The Llais website is at: https://www.llaiswales.org/