We want to ask people how services can more effectively promote good health, as well as treat disease, and how we can empower people to have more say in the care they receive in the community and their homes.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

We've noticed a big increase in the number of people accessing our mental health services. We also noticed an increase in the number of people approaching us whose family and friends were suffering from mental health problems.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.