Healthwatch Milton Keynes is the local consumer champion for the provision of high quality and effective health, wellbeing and social care services for all, across Milton Keynes. Our mission is to be an independent organisation, providing an effective local voice for people in Milton Keynes, influencing and shaping health and social care services to meet their needs. Healthwatch Milton Keynes has been empowering the people of Milton Keynes to have a say in how health and social care services are planned and delivered for six years. We have a statutory role, legislated in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to provide an independent voice on people’s experiences of health and care.  An emphasis on joint commissioning, integrated working, budgetary pressures and an increasing demand on services has transformed the health and social care landscape around us. Healthwatch Milton Keynes works to influence local health and social care planning and provision, based on the experiences and needs of the public and those who use, and care for those who use services.