# Healthwatch Service

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Stoke-on-Trent City Council](/buyers/stoke-on-trent-city-council/contract-awards)
- Published: 7 October 2017
- Planned start: 2 April 2018
- Planned end: 1 April 2023
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 9193ea65-e3f3-4abb-a018-84c2fdec3cd8-174996
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ebca18ce-01e4-47fb-bc20-75ff2444918f

## Description

Stoke-on-Trent City Council wishes to commission a Healthwatch service that will: • Act as local consumer champion representing the collective voice of patients, service users, carers and the public • Support individuals to access information and advice about services • Provide or signpost people to independent advocacy if they need help to complain about NHS services • Have real influence with commissioners, providers, regulators and HealthWatch England using their knowledge of what matters to local people

## Related contract awards

- [\(DPS 7239\) Stoke-on-Trent City Council - Appointment of contractor to support Delivery of Warm Homes: Local Grant](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f2229292-1ea9-447f-aa4e-b20a9d5ab6ea): Stoke on Trent City Council
- [Potteries Museum & Art Gallery \(PMAG\)- Arts Council England - Phase 1 Pre-Construction Service Agreement RIBA Stage 3 & 4](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5d8d158f-fea5-4119-92a1-ca9d1c8f1d4d): Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- [Local Supported Accommodation Framework \(Flexible\) - CSC/2021/584\*](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7e31fbfd-47b5-4b68-a943-be32ad22d283): Stoke-on-Trent City Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9193ea65-e3f3-4abb-a018-84c2fdec3cd8-174996)