Demise of Healthwatch England will do NHS patients a disservice | Letters

Sharon Grant says the agency, which advocates for patients, will go the same way as previous community engagement bodies, to the detriment of health service usersLabour’s dismal record on providing an independent voice for patients in health and social care continues with “offstage” news of the demise of Healthwatch England. Twenty years ago, as the chair of Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health, I was suddenly summoned by the then Labour minister, Rosie Winte