How to get involved?

We are continually looking for ways to make our services the best they can be for all of our service users, families and carers.

Your feedback on how we are doing will help us to achieve this.

By listening carefully to you, we can better understand what you want and need and how we can best support you. By working together, we can bring about real and lasting improvements.

Become a Member

Our membership is made up of patients, families and local people with an interest in the Trust and the services we provide. It also includes our staff and representatives from partner organisations in the local area.

We're keen that our membership is representative of the wide range of people who we care for, who work for us and who live in the communities we serve.

Membership is an opportunity:

• to learn about our services and your local population
• to have a voice and be listened to
• to become a governor and influence our Board

If you wish to become a member, please complete the membership application form here.

You can find out more in our Membership Strategy

Support our Charity

Making a donation to the our Charity is a great way to support your local NHS to benefit local people.

The Charity supports innovative projects that make a positive, lasting change and go above and beyond what the NHS would usually provide: Making hospital life better for everyone you know and love.

Your support funds projects that make a positive change for as many as possible; making a significant impact every day of the year, for tens of thousands of local people of all ages.

Find out more and how you can support here: Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity

Get Involved Research

Research is only possible thanks to the involvement of the communities we serve.

Thousands of service users (or patients) and their support network take part in research across the NHS every year, helping us to understand certain illnesses or conditions, and find better treatments (therapies or medicines) or ways to prevent them.

Not only does this benefit future service users and the care we provide, but it gives a great sense of pride and value to those who take part.

Get Involved in Gloucestershire

Get Involved in Gloucestershire is an online participation space where you can share your views, experiences and ideas about local health and care services.

Your input will help inform and influence the decisions local NHS organisations make.

The website is a joint space and provides details of public consultations and engagement opportunities as well as completed programmes.

Become a Volunteer

Volunteers are crucial to the Trust’s ambition to make positive differences in the lives of our communities. When you volunteer, you support that drive to help communities to achieve their most fulfilling lives possible.

Volunteering is a great way to develop your skills and experience to support your career aspirations and to do something meaningful and interesting in your free time to help others. 

Please note volunteers do not replace existing paid workers roles but they complement and support the work that existing staff do across the Trust. 

Healthwatch Gloucestershire

Healthwatch Gloucestershire is the county’s independent health and social care champion and supports health and care services to involve people in decisions that affect them.

They regularly explore issues that matter most to our local communities and work with us to help shape and improve services.