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                    Agenda Item: 8

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Report

Committee:

Safe and Healthy People Select Committee

Date of meeting:

24 July 2009

Report Title:

Local Involvement Network (LINk)

Report From:

Chief Executive

Contact name:

David Pryke

Tel:

Ext 7342

Email:

[email protected]

      1. Purpose of Report

1.1. To welcome Tom Smith, Chairman of Hampshire LINk to the Committee and note its programme of work.

2. Contextual Information

2.1. Local Involvement Networks (LINks) aim to give citizens a stronger voice in how their health and social care services are delivered. They are run by local individuals and groups and independently supported - the role of LINks is to find out what people want, monitor local services and to use their powers to hold them to account.

2.2. The introductions of LINks is part of a wider process to help the community have a stronger local voice. A LINks role is to:

    · ask what local people what they think about local healthcare services and provide a chance to suggest ideas to help improve services

    · investigate specific issues of concern to the community

    · use its powers to hold services to account and get results

    · ask for information and get an answer in a specified amount of time

    · be able to carry out spot-checks  to see if services are working well (carried out under safeguards)

    · make reports and recommendations and receive a response

    · refer issues to the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee or Safe and Healthy People Select Committee

      3. Hampshire LINk Programme of Work

3.1. Hampshire LINk's programme of work for June to November 2009 will include:

    · Phlebotomy services in Gosport

    · ·OOH services- with a specific focus on the patient experience and possibly complaints

    · Ambulance Services- with a specific focus on the patient experience and possibly complaints

    · Maternity services (working with a mum to be)

and from December 2009- March 2010 will include:

    · ·Social care in nursing homes

    · ·Patients experience of hospitals

    · ·Bed blocking (possibly linked to dementia)

    · Patients/clients outcomes (e.g. return to independent living)

    · ·Access to talking therapies

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background documents

 

The following documents discuss facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and have been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report. (NB: the list excludes published works and any documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.)

 

Document

Location

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IMPACT ASSESSMENTS:

4. Equalities Impact Assessment:

N/A

      5. Impact on Crime and Disorder:

N/A

      6. Climate Change:

6.1. How does what is being proposed impact on our carbon footprint / energy consumption?

N/A

a) How does what is being proposed consider the need to adapt to climate change, and be resilient to its longer term impacts?

N/A