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My local Health Watch have been crowing about their soon to be statutory status - that's the healthwatch made up from the current links group - who see themselves transferring straight across from one group to the other. Telling us all about thier new "teeth", what they will achieve and exercising their new found power. It's a shame, becuause, it may have made a difference in the long term, giving healthwatch an indpenednt role - as opposed to an arms length quango of the ever powerful local authority. But, hey, Pickles, Lansley and Cameron (or plc as I prefer to call them), have to give these Councillors something to meddle in and do, now they're flooating off their social services departments into social enterprise company's.