Please click the images below to view our Flyer, RSVP postcard and Invitations to both the Open Public Meeting and Workshop

Please click the links to access the White Paper documents below:

Liberating the NHS - Transparency in outcomes - a framework for the NHS

Liberating the NHS - Local democratic legitimacy in health

Equity and excellence - Liberating the NHS

Liberating the NHS - Regulating healthcare providers

Liberating the NHS - Report of the arm’s-length bodies review

Equity and excellence - Liberating the NHS - Establishing HealthWatch

The following White Paper documents are available in:

Polish

Punjabi

Urdu

Easy read

South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS are holding a seminar on Mental Illness - Fighting Fear and Stigma together which is open to service users, carers and governors on:

Thursday 9th September 2010, 6-8pm at
the Learning Centre,St Georges Hospital

Please follow our Get Involved > Meetings and Events tab for further information

The Equality Act will make big changes in Equality and Diversity and the rights of disabled people andcarers. This free session which is being led by Ann Johnson from Husk Consultancy will be informal and interactive.

Tuesday 21^st September, 9.30 -12.30
Lichfield Room, Meeting Point House, Telford

Please follow our Get Involved > Meetings and Events tab for further information

Take part in our Community Pharmacy Survey by clicking our ‘Get Involved’ followed by ‘Current Projects’ tab, or by clicking the image above.

Do you or someone you know receive a service from Telford & Wrekin Council adult social services?

Did you know the service is changing to make it more personal to you?

Download the PPF flyer and newsletter by clicking this link to find dates for your diary and to keep up to date with the latest developments.

This guide is for you if you need treatment, care and support in an NHS hospital. We explain important changes to how NHS hospitals are regulated. You can also read a summary of the new essential standards of quality and safety NHS hospitals must keep to and how we monitor these standards.

Imported changes to how NHS hospitals are regulated

The essential standards of quality and safety you can expect

Find out how well your NHS hospital is meeting the new essential standards

Share your experience with us

Have your say on HealthWatch

In July, as part of the White Paper ‘Equality and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ proposals were announced to establish a new national health and social care consumer champion called HealthWatch and to evolve LINks into local HealthWatch organisations.

Two subsequently published consultations documents set out more detail on the HealthWatch proposal.

To help you to respond to the White Paper consultations, the Department of Health has published a briefing document that sets out the HealthWatch proposals, answers common questions and outlines some of the issues LINks might wish to think about when responding to the White Paper.

If you would like to be involved in helping develop HealthWatch Telford please contact us on enquiries@telfordandwrekinlink.org.uk or call 01952 614 180.

To read the White Paper in full visit: http://www.dh.gov.uk/liberatingthenhs

To respond to the White Paper email: NHSWhitePaper@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Welcome to Telford and Wrekin LINk’s newsletter - please click the link to read our first issue for Spring.

The Care Quality Commission is currently inspecting services for vulnerable adults and also older people’s services that are provided by Telford Borough Council.

Anyone who uses these services (or has used them in the past or who may use them in the future) or their carers is invited to a public forum where you can tell the inspector what works well – and what needs to change. You can also write to the inspector or send an email with your comments.

Alternatively you can contact the local involvement network (please see our contact details) and we will present any concerns on your behalf.

We are also keen to find out about services that you think are very good so we can tell the inspector about these too.

Please get in touch with us before 23 March so that we can discuss your experience with you and pass your comments on to the inspector.