More ways to share your views

As always, you can share your views and experiences with us in a way that suits you. However, if you would like to share your feedback directly with health and care services you may complete one of the following surveys.

Available opportunities

SEND Services in the Dudley area

The Dudley Parent Carer Forum has launched their annual survey looking at SEND (Special Educational Needs or Disabilities) services within the Dudley area.

The survey is suitable for parent carers living in Dudley who have a child/young person with SEND between the ages of 0-25.

The survey takes around 10-15 minutes to complete and aims to capture the true feelings of parent carers in the borough.

The results are independently evaluated by the parent carer forum.

Access the survey here!

Have your say on the future of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services

NHS Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull ICB want to hear your views and experiences to help shape the future of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country.

NEPTS provides planned, non-urgent transport to and from healthcare locations. It supports people with journeys such as outpatient appointments, dialysis, oncology treatment, hospital discharges and transfers between hospitals.

They would like to hear from:

  • People who currently use NEPTS
  • People who have used NEPTS in the past
  • People who support or care for someone who uses NEPTS
  • Anyone with experience of the service who has views or ideas about how it could be improved

Your feedback will help us understand what works well, what could work better and what is important to people when using the service.

Please share your views by 1 October 2026. 

Access the survey here

Why and how NCEPOD uses patient data without consent

The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), reviews the quality of care provided to patients to highlight improvements that could be made.

To be able to run their studies hospitals to send them a big dataset (often 1000s) of all patients and from this big group NCEPOD randomly select around 1000 patients to undertake a closer review of their care. 

All patients in England can opt out of their data being used for research. Many of the non-research national programmes that review quality of care (national audits/mortality reviews) are exempt from removing the data of patients who have opted-out to ensure that serious patient safety issues are not missed. NCEPOD would like to apply for the same permission.

Share your views on how NCEPOD uses patient data.

Complete the survey here

Educational transitions for young people with sight loss

 
Beacon wants to better understand the experiences of young blind and partially sighted people as they move from school into further education, training or employment. 
 
This survey is open to young people, their parents/carers, and professionals supporting them.
 

Help shape suicide prevention in the Black Country

Have you or someone you care for experienced a mental health crisis?

Your lived experience is vital to shaping a strategy that supports those in need.

Please complete and / or share with your partners to help support suicide prevention in the Black Country.

Complete the survey here