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12 February 2010
In this week’s issue
- Chief Executive’s message
- National Voices news
- Health care update
- Social care update
- Service user panel news
- Members news
- Consultation and Involvement
- Conferences and Events
- Vacancies
- Get Involved
- Chief Executive’s message
- Health and social care are at a crossroads. Two more reports in recent days – one from the CBI and one from the Care Quality Commission – add new detail to the picture: much that has got better in recent years (can it be sustained?); frustrating variability in quality, access, safety and person-centredness. And right now: worrying risks in a new era of belt-tightening.
- With change accelerating, patients, families and citizens need to be centre stage. These are our services: share the power! National Voices will be pushing for three reforms: (a) a feedback and complaints system that encourages, acts on and learns from patient comment; (b) clear principles for patient focus and involvement in major service change; (c) patient-focus to be a much stronger strand of standard-setting, training and regulation of health professionals. Watch this space...
- National Voices news
- National Voice Board meeting: 3 February 2010
- The new National Voices Board met on 3 February to agree a campaigning and influencing agenda for the year. A report on the meeting will follow shortly.
- Health care update
- CQC publishes the state of health care and adult social care
- The Care Quality Commission today published its first annual report to parliament on the state of health care and adult social care in England. It also published its five-year strategy. For more information please visit the CQC website.
- CHRE’s new project
- The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) will be undertaking a new project called, ‘Distributed Regulation’. Further details and a short discussion paper can be found on the CHRE website.
- NPC: Local decision making
- The NHS Constitution gives patients the right to expect local decisions about the funding of medicines and treatments to be made rationally. The National Prescribing Centre (NPC) has been commissioned to provide an ongoing programme of support to local NHS organisations which aims to provide a degree of consistency in the generic training of local decision-making groups, provide a mechanism for sharing best practice and interaction, and give local NHS organisations the tools to review and develop the processes underpinning local decision-making. For more information please visit the NPC website.
- Royal College of Nursing launches new website
- The Royal College of Nursing has launched a dedicated website to encourage people to sign up to their general election campaign. In addition, you can view a video of their general election priorities and there is a Facebook page, which will draw together their election work and allow individuals to support the campaign.
- Social care update
- Personal Care at Home Bill
- The Personal Care at Home Bill was announced in the Queen's Speech on 18 November and was introduced to Parliament on 25 November. It has now completed all stages in the House of Commons and is currently scheduled to receive its second reading in the House of Lords on Monday 1 February. To view the Bill please visit the website.
- Get LINked up
- Chief executives are encouraged to form a good relationship with their Local Involvement Network (LINk). Most people would like to have a say on their health and social care services if there was a simple way to do it, and LINks provide an opportunity for the public to voice its opinions. To find out more please visit the Department of Health website.
- Service User panel news
- National Voices meeting, 30 March 2010
- National Voices is hosting an event on 30 March in central London, which will be open to Service User panellists and representatives from our smaller member organisations. The theme is “share the power”. More details to come.
- Protecting from unregistered practioners
- Members news
- Ataxia launches new guidlines
- Ataxia UK has launched new guidelines for the management of ataxia, aimed at medical professionals. For more information please visit the Ataxia website.
- Disabled Motorists Federation: Parliamentary 2010
- The Disabled Motorists Federation has been working as a content partner for the Parliamentary Yearbook 2010. For more information please visit the Parliamentary Yearbook website.
- Consultation and Involvement
- Consultation on a review of the Future Regulation of Medical Education and Training
- Following the merger between the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMTEB) and the General Medical Council, a strategic review was commissioned. The review focused on the regulations of education and training and has now been published for consultation. This consultation will run until the 9th March 2010. You can respond to the draft report and respond to the Consultation at the GMC website.
- Information about Medicine Online
- The medicines’ regulator is currently thinking about making information about medicines available online and would like your views on the subject. To get involved click the link to take part in an online discussion on the subject.
- Conferences and Events
- Working Effectively with Carers
- Date: 23 March 2010
- Venue: TBC
- Description: This Community Care conference, in association with The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, covers progress of the National Carers Strategy and showcases national examples of best practice; the business case for them and how they fit with services directed at service users.
- Contact: For more information please visit the Lexis Learning website
- Managing Your Migraine
- Date: 27 March 2010
- Venue: The Oxford Centre, Oxford
- Cost: £15 per person
- Description: This informative event is for people living with migraine and for those who would like to find out more about the condition. The programme features two local medical experts who will give presentations on understanding and managing migraine. There will also be a Q&A session with the experts and an opportunity to meet other migraine sufferers. Speakers: Dr Zameel Cader, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford and Dr Paul Davies, Consultant Neurologist, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.
- Contact: For more information, online booking and prices please visit the website or call 020 7462 6606 or email.
- Vacancies
- Changing Faces: Interim Head of the Children and Young People's Service
- Application deadline: 22nd February 2010
Changing Faces, the leading UK charity supporting and representing people with disfigurements, seeks to recruit an experienced psychologist/therapist with management experience to cover an interim period from March/April.
- Contact: For further information please visit the Changing Faces website.
- Get Involved
- Patient and involvement and empowerment 2010
- Through a series of presentations, this one day conference, chaired by Jeremy Taylor Chief Executive National Voices, focuses on the challenges ahead as set out in the Operating Framework and provides important updates on recent changes in Patient Involvement and Empowerment. Sessions include measuring the outcomes of patient involvement in an NHS Trust; empowering patients to lead on quality improvement; learning from patient experience and the power of patients and users to improve services and practice.
- For more information please visit the event website.
Contributions: If you have any items of information or news that you would like to see in future editions of 10 Things, please send details to info@nationalvoices.org.uk or contact Laurence Whittle on 020 3176 0733.
Laurence Whittle
Membership Officer
Direct line: 020 3176 0733
laurence.whittle@nationalvoices.org.uk
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