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Current Developments within the Mental Health of Older Adults Service - 25th January 2012

SPAG has invited senior officials from South London & Maudsley Foundation Trust (SLaM) to discuss the current plans and developments within the Mental Health of Older Adults Services. This is an opportunity for questions and discussions on this area. We look forward to seeing many LINk members joining in!

Date: Wednesday 25th January 2012, from 10.30am

Venue: Southwark Pensioners Centre, 205-307 Camberwell Road, SE5 0HQ

Challenges of Health Inequalities Workshop - Professor Marmot - Friday 10th February 2012, 10am - 1pm

CAS has invited Professor Sir Marmot to speak on the challenges of tackling health inequalities. This is an opportunity to hear Sir Marmot speak and to take part in discussing how the voluntary and community sector can work with the local authority and health agencies to address some of the biggest challenges.

Supported by LINk Southwark, Voluntary Action Lewisham and Lambeth Voluntary Action Council.

Contact Maria@casouthwark.org.uk or call 020 7358 7020 for more information.

Kings College Hospital - ''Outpatient In Your Shoes''

In Your Shoes is about listening to our patients to improve the quality of care we provide. It gives our staff the chance to hear about your experiences of King’s, and find out what is important to you, what we do well and what we need to improve.

In Your Shoes is a series of events offering patients the opportunity to tell King’s staff their unique experience of what it is like to be a patient at King’s. We want to understand what is important to our patients so that we can focus our efforts in those areas.

If you have attended one of King’s College Hospital’s outpatient clinics in the last year or so, we would like you to come along to our In Your Shoes event and share your story with members of staff. Outpatient In Your Shoes will take place on:

Tuesday 31st January 2012 in the Boardroom, Hambleden Wing
King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill from 3.00 – 5.00pm

Refreshments will be provided and the venue is accessible.

At Outpatient In Your Shoes, patients will be paired with King’s outpatient staff and will have a one-to-one conversation with them sharing their stories, experience and feelings. We will want to know what made your visit to King’s good or not so good.

We will then share with you some of the ideas we have for improving our outpatient services and get your views. We will also like to hear any ideas that you have for improving our outpatient service.

Further information can be found at: http://www.kch.nhs.uk/about/be-a-part-of-kings/get-involved/in-your-shoes

If you would like to attend, please contact Helen Cylwik on 020 3299 3462 or email helen.cylwik@nhs.net. Download the flyer here.

Adult Social Care Open Task Group meeting - Tuesday 13th December 2011, 2pm - 4pm

Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, Camberwell SE5 OHF

Have an interest in Social Care?

Social Care includes Residential Care Homes, any type of home care & help, daycare centres, personalisation/personal budgets, re-ablement.

Aim: to discuss & decide priorities the Adult Social Care Task Group should include in the Work Plan!

We want Southwark residents to be involved in our task group. YOU can be involved!

Call us on 020 7358 7005 to book your free place! Refreshments provided.

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Launch Event for design of new cancer Centre at Guys Hospital – 7th December 2011

You are cordially invited to attend a launch event for the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s.

The event will take place on:

Wednesday 7th December, Robens Suite, 29th floor, Tower Wing, Guy’s Hospital, Sessions at: 09.30, 10.30 and 12.00

The sessions will include:

An exhibition of the design drawings and images of the new state of the art facilities for our cancer services
A 45 minute presentation (including time for questions) by the Trust and the design team at the specified session times above

In order to calculate numbers for attendance at the sessions we would be grateful if you could state which time you would prefer to attend.

If you are unable to attend this launch event there will be an exhibition of the plans running from 8th – 16th December, details of which will follow shortly.

Please RSVP to richard.winterbone@gstt.nhs.uk

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The Big Conversation - Something to say about End of Life Care? - 1st December 2011

The National Council for Palliative Care is running an event is aimed at people with personal experience of a life-limiting condition or end of life care, either personally or through caring for someone else. Further information is below and attached flyer. People can participate in a number of ways, including attending, and we can pay travel expenses for non professionals.

Please feel free to contact Joanna Black on 020 7697 1520 or email j.black@ncpc.org.uk for further information.

Information for LINk members:
This is a chance for you to make a difference by:

sharing your thoughts, ideas and concerns about aspects of palliative and end of life care, including social care and resuscitation policy and practice
finding out about NCPC and Dying Matters achievements this year
hearing about, influencing and getting involved in NCPC and Dying Matters priorities for next year including parliamentary work, writing competition and photographic project.

How you can take part:
You can make your voice can be heard in any or all of the following ways

Email
Telephone
Post
Coming along: 1st December 2011 at 108 Stamford Street, South Bank, London, SE1 9NH (We can pay your travel expenses) You don’t need to pay to attend, but you do need to fill in a booking form.

LINk Ambassador Training Programme - 30th November 2011

Become a LINk Ambassador, Wednesday 30th November, 10.30am – 12.30pm
We are looking for Southwark residents to help us collect people’s views and experiences of health & social care services in Southwark, and to publicise and promote the LINk.

enjoy speaking to people
are friendly
a good listener
have free time

Then please get in touch with us! The training session will include:

how to engage with the public
running a stall
understanding the LINk role & transition into HealthWatch
what LINK does / activities

Call us on 020 7358 7005 to book your free place! Light Lunch provided.
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Get involved and help King’s College Hospital to promote early diagnosis of HIV

We are looking for two or three patients who would like to get involved in some work that King’s is doing to promote early testing for HIV to help us to diagnose HIV promptly. We are looking for people who aren’t currently involved as HIV patients or as representatives from HIV related groups but who attend King’s as either an outpatient or inpatient. It doesn’t matter for what reason you are a patient, rather your willingness to share your views with us. You will need to be aged 16 or over.

There are several opportunities to get involved:

Meet with staff to discuss HIV in the community and what needs to be done
Attend sexual health departmental strategy group meetings about planning how to increase HIV testing at Kings (the group meets approximately every 2 months) we can pay travel expenses. Their input will be really helpful to assist in planning consent and testing pathways properly.
Help design patient information and leaflets about this so that we can get the language and message right
Attend our World AIDS Day event in the King’s Boardroom on Thursday December 1st 2011 from 12noon -2pm (in shifts if necessary) and be willing to answer any questions about what their views are on improving HIV diagnosis. This is an informal event where people will have the opportunity to visit a number of different stands. The event includes a buffet lunch

To download the flyer, please click here.

If you are interested or would like more information, please contact Helen Cylwik, Patient and Public Involvement Manager on 020 3299 3462 or email Helen.cylwik@nhs.net

Local Authority / Council Meetings

Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee meetings

Monday 9th January 2012 from 4pm, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH. Visit www.southwark.gov.uk for the agenda and papers.

Health & Adult Social Care Sub-Committee meetings

Wednesday 1st February 2012 at 7pm
Ground Floor Meeting Room G02B - 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH.

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Forums

Southwark: Support & Care Market Forum

Monday 27th February 2012 from 2 - 4pm, Cator Street

Monday 16th January 2012 from 2 - 4pm, Room GO2b & c, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH,

CAS: Adult, Independence & Well-Being Forum

Next meeting 17th April 2012, 10am - 12pm, Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square.

Thursday 12th January, 10am - 12pm, Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square. Visit www.casouthwark.org for the agenda and previous minutes

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Southwark Clinical Commissioning Committee Meeting

Thursday 12th January 2012, 2 - 5pm. 160 Tooley Street. Agenda and papers available at http://www.southwarkpct.nhs.uk/about_us/southwark_health_commissioning/sccc_meetings/12_january_2012

Engagement & Patient Experience Sub-Group (EPEG)

This is a sub-committee of the Southwark Clinical Commissioning Committee. It is an advisory group for Locality Patient Representatives and LINk representative to input their patient experience on behalf of patients into the commissionning decisions in Southwark.

Friday 27th January 2012, 2 - 5pm. 160 Tooley Street

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Acute Foundation Trust Meetings

Guys & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust Board Meetings

Wednesday 25th January 2012, from 1pm - 5pm,
Burfoot Court Room, Guy's Hospital

Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board Meetings

Tuesday 31st January 2012, from 2.30pm - 5pm

Dulwich Committee Room, Ground Floor, Hambleden Wing, King's College Hospital

South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Board Meetings

Awaiting dates

To access documents relating to the Task Groups, please click here or click on the right hand side tab 'Resources'.

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Task Groups

Maternity & New Born Task Group Meeting

The Maternity Task Group are hoping to visit the first purpose-built Birth Centre in Tower Hamlets. If you are interested in visiting, please let us know as soon as possible by calling 020 7358 7005 or emailing link@ch1889.org. - NOTE THIS VISIT HAS NOW TAKEN PLACE.

Our next meeting is either Monday 27th February 2012 or Friday 9th March (TBC) at 9.30am - 11.30am, Dulwich Community Hospital.

Come and join this new task group. We are looking into maternity services in Southwark. All mothers, grandmothers, fathers, aunts and anyone else interested are encouraged to attend. Please call Sec-Chan on 020 7358 7005.

The task group have been meeting every month for the last few months. Notes of previous meetings are available on the website under 'Resources'.

Refreshments available.

Access Task Group Meeting Dates

LINk Members involved in this Task Group looked into the issues around Access to GPs in Southwark for people with physical disabilities and sensory impairments. A report is currently being finalised to send to NHS Southwark. Look under Resources for meeting documents.

For more details contact Alvin Kinch on 0207 358 7005 or link@ch1889.org

Mental Health Task Group Meeting Dates

Come & meet with other LINk Members who are part of the Mental Health Task Group looking into the issues surrounding mental health in Southwark.

Next meeting is 17th November 2011 from 2pm-4pm, Venue to be confirmed.

For more details contact Alvin on 020 7358 7005 or link@ch1889.org

Adult Social Care Task Group Meetings

We are calling and looking for volunteers who are interested in Adult Social Care in Southwark to become a member of our Task Group. You will help to plan and decide the area(s) of adult social care that you think we should be looking at.

Next meeting date to be confirmed.

We had our FIRST Adult Social Care meeting on Tuesday 13th December 2011.If you are interested, please contact us on 020 7358 7005.

Click here to download the leaflet or see our events page. A brief summary is available in our December Edition Newsletter. A more detailed report wil be available shortly.