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Stronger voice, better care - Local Involvement Networks (LINks) explained

Local Involvement Networks (LINks) have been introduced to help strengthen the system that enables communities to influence local health and care services.

Backed up by certain powers, LINks aim to:

• 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
• 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.

This document explains more about LINks and how you can make your voice heard by getting involved.

This publication supersedes previous versions of the 'LINks explained'.

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