Healthwatch are holding a community forum in Penrith on Friday, 26th April to provide a chance for third sector groups, members of the public and health and social care organisations to share and hear about the latest local healthcare developments, learn about Healthwatch’s projects, as well as an opportunity to network.
Local Healthwatch were set up in every local authority area in England by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 creating statutory duties of each Healthwatch which include:
1. Promoting and supporting the involvement of local people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services.
2. Enabling local people to monitor the standard of provision of local care services and whether and how local care services could and ought to be improved.
3. Obtaining the views of local people regarding their needs for, and experiences of, local care services and importantly to make these views known.
4. Making reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved.These should be directed to commissioners and providers of care services, and people responsible for managing or scrutinising local care services, and shared with Healthwatch England.
5. Providing advice and information about access to local care services so choices can be made about local care services.
6. Formulating views on the standard of provision and whether and how the local care services could and ought to be improved, and to share these views with Healthwatch England.
7. Making recommendations to Healthwatch England to advise the Care Quality Commission to conduct special reviews or investigations (or, where the circumstances justify doing so, making such recommendations direct to the CQC); and to make recommendations to Healthwatch England to publish reports about particular issues.
8. Providing Healthwatch England with intelligence and insight to enable it to perform effectively.
On the agenda for the forum event in Penrith on Friday the 26th April is
• Healthwatch project update, including autism, and dentistry
• Sexual health, STIs and contraception
• Updates from north Cumbria NHS trusts and Integrated Care Board
• Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation trust strategy refresh
The Forum will be held at Church House, Friargate, Penrith on Friday April 26th, 10am-12pm, or you can join online.
To attend the forum remotely email kate@healthwatchwestfurn.co.uk for the meeting link.
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