Open University in Wales, near Cardiff Station Apply Here
An opportunity to join a public debate and make your views known.
The purpose of this workshop is to help make a reality of the Health and Social Care Ministers commitment to revitalising democracy in the new NHS for Wales.
Participants include, Marcus Long (WIHSC), Gwyneth Briwnant Jones (Cardiff CHC), Ron Walton (Vale of Glamorgan CHC), David Smith (former CHRE Welsh lay member), Susanne Maddox (Caerphilly HSC Facilitator), Emrys Roberts (Rhymney Valley Mind), Hilda Smith (Welsh Food Alliance), Lorraine Morgan (Dignified Revolution), Liz Court (CDF Wales), Robin Williams (Wales Cardiac Patients Group, Cardiff & Vale NHS Patients Panel) and others.
We can manage a maximum of 24 people. The intention is to ensure that we have an inclusive mix of participants. Let us know if you wish to reserve a place, providing name, organisation (if any), address, e mail, or phone number and we will get back to you.
Apply to http://www.welshfoodalliance.org.uk or (01633) 266781.
Tea and coffee provided. Bring your own sandwiches.
NHS II consultation - strengthening the citizen perspective
The importance and value of effective engagement of local citizens is well evidenced elsewhere, and this would have been welcomed as an additional bullet point (to the Foreword page 4). This aspect could also be linked with the challenge of ‘full public engagement’ in managing the increasing costs of healthcare (Welsh Wanless Review).
The purpose of this workshop is to help make a reality of the Health and Social Care Ministers commitment to revitalising democracy in the new NHS for Wales. This consultation is held at the end of January in anticipation that the Ministerial Review of CHCs will have been published by the time we meet.
However, to help influence early thinking, David Smith has already responded with detailed practical comments - see note one below. We know others who have done so, including:
* Commissioning and planning issues (Emrys Roberts) and
* Proposed Council of Elders for each new LHB Board (Hilda Smith).
It is suggested that we use workshop web site to share this information with other participants before the event and thereby improve the overall effectiveness of your own responses. Comments can be sent for inclusion to
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Note One - David Smith's response
Issues addressed include:
* Role and appointment of Citizens Fora, as an alternative to the proposed LHB Stakeholder Reference Groups
* Mechanisms to meaningfully engage with hard to reach groups
* Use of questionnaires to gather patient/service user feedback as part of any future professional health revalidation process - as a far superior approach to English Ministerial proposals (Guardian 30/12/08)
*A ‘Framework for Citizen Learning and Support’ to assure quality training and support programmes, essential for service users, family carers and citizens.
* LHB Board public appointments criteria
* Strengthening of Professional Forums tby supporting citizen engagement in professional health regulation.
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