Teenagers are set to be given a say over how Norfolk's largest hospital cares for young people in the region.

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is launching its own youth forum in an effort to "empower" youngsters to speak up about health services.

Open to volunteers aged between 13 and 19, the forum is set to be led by the hospital's new children and young persons engagement facilitator Ian Savage.

It aims to help the hospital engage with the young people it cares for and will encourage them to voice opinions on its services.

Mr Savage said: "The projects we work on will depend on the young people and what skills they can offer - we will adapt the forum to what will suit them rather than what will suit us.

"My role will be to empower them so that their voices are heard."

Kat Kitchener, children's and young persons matron at the N&N said: "There are initiatives to try and get some feedback from children who are inpatients and when they're attending clinics, but historically I think we tend to end up getting the views of their parents and the teenage young voice has not really featured.

"We want to implement changes that young people tell us they want."

For information, contact youthforum@nnuh.nhs.uk