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
Voices into Action - Care Quality Commission Guide for LINks and other partnerships
This guide spells out the part that we can play in the Care commission's assessment of health and adult social care 2009-10.
The Big Care Debate:
Shaping the Future of Care Together
The Green Paper Shaping the Future of Care Together sets out the government’s proposals for a new National Care Service. Views are invited on what care and support services should be available for adults, who will deliver them and how, and how to fund these services. The consultation process is nearly over!
To find out more, you can visit the Big Care Debate website
Interested in taking part in local meetings about the personalisation of care and the impact in communities?
Visit our transformation agenda page for latest opportunities to get involved...
New Transport and Access LINk launched!
Our new experimental project was successfully launched on Friday 16th October, with over 40 local people and officers attending a special event to help shape how the project can make a difference to transport and access services in the county.
For more information, visit the Transport and Access LINk section of our website.
Election of Chair for Northumberland LINk
Elections for the role of Chair for the Northumberland LINk are now complete and we are delighted to annouce that Cynthia Atkin has been elected. Cynthia's background and her views on the chairing role can be found here
Improving hospital services for Northumberland and North Tyneside
NHS North of Tyne has approved proposals by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to invest £200 million over the next ten years to improve hospital services, at its board meeting held on 23rd October. More information on the News page
Bill Ashbridge
We are sorry to report the recent death of Bill Ashbridge, who as a LINk steering group member played a very active role, and will be much missed for his passion, integrity and willingness to take action on behalf of people in the health and social care system. Thank you Bill.
What is the LINk?
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.
LINKs Exchange
For more background to the LINks movement visit http://www.lx.nhs.uk/
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
