North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust ELEVATE Youth Council

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust’s youth participation page sets out how young people can help shape local health services. The trust says it is committed to making sure young people and their families have the opportunity to use their voice in developing services, and that youth participation is central to its work across the city.

A key part of this is ELEVATE, the trust’s youth council, which runs in collaboration with Changes Health & Wellbeing. ELEVATE meets twice a month and takes part both online and in person. Members work on a range of projects that support service improvement, including interview panels and recruitment, redesigning service delivery, co-producing new initiatives, and attending networking events.

It is also described as a welcoming space for young people to socialise and meet others from different backgrounds who share an interest in developing services.