TEENAGERS are to put health bosses in the hot seat in a Question Time event.
About 100 students aged 13 to 18 from Sedgefield Community College will put questions to a team of health executives from Sedgefield Primary Care Trust in a "listening event" designed for young people.
Trust chairwoman Gloria Wills said: "It is essential that young people have a voice in the decision-making process.
"This will be a very important meeting for us as we are always keen to know what people think about the services that the trust offers, so we can constantly learn and make improvements."
Trust chief executive Nigel Porter, directors and board members will be interrogated by the students, who have compiled a series of questions in their personal, social education and citizenship curricular classes at college.
It was the students' wish that the event was based on the BBC Question Time format with trust managers in the hot seat as panel members.
The panel chairwoman will be Lynne Ackland, headteacher at the college.
The event will take place on Friday.
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