Care Opinion
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Tell Your Story

What’s your story?

Tell us about an experience of health care or social care (within the last 3 years).

Your story might be about you, or someone close to you. You can say what happened, what was good, and what could have been better.

In the box below you can use words, or some pictures, or both, to help you tell your story. It might take 5 or 10 minutes.

What happens to your story?

We will read your story and show it on this web site. (Sometimes we can't.)

When we publish your story we will email you. We will also try to email staff in the services who need to see it.

Often, staff will reply to you here. If they do, we will email you.

We don't share your confidential personal details with anyone else.

Please tell us what your story was about

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  • Help: What happened?

    Tell your story here. You can write about any health and social care services you have used in the past 3 years. What was good? What could have been better? How did you feel about your care?

  • Help: Do you need help?

    Try using pictures to tell a story

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Help: Tell us when your story happened.

Help: Are you the patient or service user in your story, or a friend, relative, carer or someone else?

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Help: Tell us any conditions (illnesses or injuries) your story is about. Add them one at a time, like "diabetes", "broken ankle", "depression".

Add any treatments or procedures you had too, like "x-ray" or "hip replacement".

The words you add will help other people to find your story.

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Help: Make sure you have told us about any services you used. You can add more if you like.

This helps us get your story to people who can use it for learning and change.


Help: Add any other services your story is about. You can select from the list or add your own.

This helps us get your story to people who can use it for learning and change.


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Help: Make sure you have told us about any services you used. You can add more if you like.

This will help us to get your story to the people who can use it to make things better.

Help: Add some keywords to say what was good, and what could be improved. How did you feel about the services you used?

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    Help: What was good about your care? Add some keywords.

    The words you add will help other people to find your story.

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      Help: What could have been better about your care? Add some keywords.

      The words you add will help other people to find your story.

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        Help: How did your care make you feel? Add some keywords.

        The words you add will help other people to find your story.

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