Date: Saturday 1 March 2008
Venue: Essex Records Office, Chelmsford
Contact: Natalie Struka, Essex County Council, 01245 437758
Cost: FREE
What are LINks?
Local Involvement Networks in Health and Social Care (LINks) is coming soon and it is your chance to get involved and shape the way that services in health and social care are provided.
LINks looks at the whole patient/service user journey and offers flexible 'participation' whilst recognising that everyone in the community has different needs. LINks uses existing networks and community activity allowing local people to dip in and dip out of issues and concerns as no formal membership is required.
A successful LINk will use a range of creative ways to continually reach out to local people.
LINks will gather evidence of local needs and experiences using existing sources and user groups and through analysis of this information make recommendations to commissioners, providers, managers, Health, Overview and Scrutiny Committees, and regulators.
LINks will also be able to enter certain types of premises and view the services provided.
LINks will help health and social care commissioners to make the right decisions, give providers ongoing feedback and help managers know if purchased and provided services meet local need.
The information from LINks will also allow Health Overview and Scrutiny Committees to base reviews on actual feedback and help regulators access local information on needs and experiences.
Want to find out more?
Use the links below to download a newsletter and information about a conference on 1st March. The documents are in adobe acrobat pdf format and you will need the free adobe acrobat reader software to open them.
For more information on items below, goto TDC`s home page.
Taking into account how the government has just announced that the BMA has been the most difficult opponent to handle, employing expert lobbyists etc, and how they cannily allowed the doctors to manage their own wages and increases in wages and how doctors fell for it and now are being given a hard time because Jo Public is not as firmly on the doctors side subsequent to their huge wage awards.
Well, as i`m married to a time served nurse, i asked if she was of a mind to go and have a look at what they wanted in Chelsmsford.
her answer was a very firm shake of the head with a NO.
Over the years she saw so many changes "for the good" ??? of the old NHS, into to trusts, and whatnots,
she ended up having to run 2 seperate day clinics, at the same time, on the same day, on the same ward, for the same pay...
As i read the downloaded 9 page blurb, to a layman, it would look like it was going to start a new shop, but wanted new ideas on how to do it.........
You never know where the next bit of help is coming from, thanks Ivan, great link. My daughter is a nurse and has suffered discrimination bullying and a lot worse at the hands of the ward management of the NHS hospital where she works, it would be helpful if they sent the managers to training school.
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