Healthwatch South Glos recruited six people with learning disabilities to work with local charity The Hive to look at how services could improve to make their lives easier. This work is being highlighted to mark this worldwide disability awareness day on December 3.

Health and care services in South Gloucestershire are working on a new approach called Better Care South Gloucestershire. The approach focuses on putting individuals, especially the frail and elderly, at the heart of joined-up health and care services and supporting them to live safely and independently in their communities so that they have fewer health crises and fewer admissions to hospital.

We are here to make sure that those running services, and the government, put people at the heart of care.