Documents

To go to Leadership Group papers, please click here. To go to LINk Southwark Work Plan, previous and current LINk Annual Reports, please click here.

We have work streams in:

  • Acute Provider - this will be monitoring the acute providers with a view to informing our response to Kings and Guy's Foundation Trust.
  • Communities & Engagement - reviewing our outreach visits into the community, collecting views and experiences from the public
  • Information - analysing issues that we have received from our outreach visits and other sources and recommendation actions to the Leadership Group 

Please note: From April 2012 onwards, all task groups will now be known as ''work streams''.

Event Reports

Work Stream Documents

Access Workstream Updates January 2013

Maternity & New Born Care work stream

Work stream profile:

Lead Accountable: Milly Hutchinson and Gill Portwine

Agreed Priorities

  • Review of the task group and work to date with report to be tabled soon;
  • and arising from the Maternity Task Group's recommendations, focusing on a midwifery led unit in Southwark and postnatal care.

Next Meeting: Thursday 7th Feb 2013 at 4pm, Cambridge House, : If you are interested in maternity services in Southwark from antenatal care, labour/birth, to postnatal care, or would like to feed in your issues to us, please contact us on 020 7358 7005 or email link@ch1889.org

Previous Meetings

The Group finalised the presentation for the Engagement & Patient Experience Sub-Group, that feeds into the Southwark Clincial Commissioning Group, the body who will replace PCTs and be in charge of commissioning health services in Southwark. We presented on 1st November 2011, 5.30pm-7.30pm,

May 2011 Task Group Update Report

Terms of Reference

 

 Adult Social Care Work Stream

The new Adult Social Care Task Group replaces the Scrutiny Task, building upon the progress and experience of the Scrutiny Task Group. Two Open meetings took place on a wider a range of social care issues to gather views and experiences of the service users. Notes are available below.

Based on the above public meetings and user-feedback, the workstream will be focusing on three key areas:

  • Home Care Services
  • Access to Foot Health Services (Chirpody)
  • Impact of Personal Budgets on Day Care Services

Access January 2013 update.

Previous Scrutiny into Older People Care Homes and Commissioning

 

Access Task Group

 

Dementia sub-group

This is a joining of the adult social care and mental health work stream.

The Group has:

  • responded to Southwark Council's consultation on a Centre of Excellence for Dementia and Complex Needs consultation that took place in August / September 2012. What did we do? Gathered feedback, we mailed out the Councils Vision and Questions to our members, uploaded on our website, had an open meeting and visited the two day care centres that could be closed. Based on this, we collated the feedback and compiled a response. View our response.To access the Councils Vision , Consultation Questions, or FAQs
  • responded to Alzheimers Society consultation on 'Making Dementia Friendly Communities'. Read our response here.
  • Conducted an Enter and View visit to Maudsley Hospital, Aubrey Lewis 2 - inpatient ward for Older People with Mental Health and Dementia, and visited the Home Treatment Team. Report available soon.
  • Met with Team Manager of Southwark Community Mental Health Teams

Focus: Planning and visiting dementia-related services in Southwark

Next Steps: Follow up to Community Mental Health Teams and visiting Memory Service Clinics (diagnosis of dementia)

Next open meeting: Friday 8th February 2013, at 10.30am Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square. All welcome but please contact us in advance 020 7358 7005 or email link@ch1889.org

Access January 2013 update

Mental Health Work Stream

Lead Accountable: Fiona Subotsky

Agreed priorities: Day Services, Older Adults Services, Psychological Therapy Services

Other priorities: Consultation mechanisms (user representative structures), Quality / activity reports, impact of services user, impact of merger with Kings Health Partners

January 2012

December 2011

November 2011

September 2011

Leadership Group Meetings

Please note: the Steering Group has been disbanded following the Review Recommendations in mid-September 2011. For previous Steering Group documents, see the tab ' Previous Steering Group'.

A new Leadership Group has now been established and are holding induction meetings. Minutes of these meetings and further details will be available soon. If you require updates on LINk activites, work areas and what we have been doing, please sign up for free as a member to receive our newsletters and bulletins.

 

Annual Report

LINk Southwark Work Plan

Other Documents;

  • Guide for Professionals & NALM
  • LINks and their PCTs (NALM)
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