Northumberland LINk
Welcome to Northumberland LINk, the place to have your say on health and social care services in Northumberland.
You can join the LINk as an individual or an organisation, and take part in gatherings in your area. You can choose to get more involved and play an active part in looking onto issues and making recommendations for change, or you can simply receive regular updates, and register your views whenever you have something to say.
How to join Northumberland LINk
LINks (Local Involvement Networks) were introduced in April 2008. One of the aims behind LINks is to provide more people with the chance to shape local care services. Existing members of Patients’ Forums are well placed to be involved early on in the setting up of LINks, but LINks are to be formed of a much wider base and the Government has urged Local Authorities seek the involvement of people involved LINks in user and carer groups, and representatives from the wider voluntary and community sector too.
Priorities agreed by the LINk membership to inform the workplan for 2009/2010 are:
- Improving transitional arrangements, particularly from child to adult services.
- Dual diagnosis & complex needs issues.
- The 'transformation' agenda- independence & rehabilitation.
We would welcome your comments on the draft governance document of the LINk.
You can find minutes of meetings and future events by following the links.
Download a video about LINks:
A short video about LINks is now available to view on the NCI website.
As Local Involvement Networks (LINks) develop across the country, many people want to find out more. Sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly what a
LINk is and why getting involved is important. The ‘LINks - Why they matter to you’ video has been put together using the experiences of people who have been involved in LINks to help anyone involved in LINks to do just that.
The video is introduced by Joan Saddler, National Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Health. Four LINk members are featured in
the video - each of them has a different story about their experience and each is from a different community. As well as the LINk members, the video also features two other people discussing LINks:
Jennie, a member of staff in the NHS, who explains why people who plan and provide services need to listen to local people
And, Sue, who works for an organisation that supports LINks to undertake their role in the community.
To view the video, please visit:
www.nhscentreforinvolvement.nhs.uk/index.cfm?Content=197.
For more details please contact
Newcastle Heritage Partnership
C/O Ben Smith
Historic Environment Section
Strategy Housing, Planning & Transportation
Regeneration
Newcastle City Council
Civic Centre
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tel: 0191 277 7194
info@northumberlandlink.org.uk
www.northumberlandlink.org.uk
