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18.09.08 | Colin Adamson

September Re-entry (September newsletter) Clients, Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, NHS, Social networking | (0)
The title of the newsletter would sound better in French: 'la rentrée' - a season in France when the State re-awakens after its long summer off and the supermarkets are filled with bargain notebooks and pens - the ones that are all squares and no lines. It is much more than 'back to school' and money off school shoes. On Leadership & Management in Business Shoes are on my mind because I have been reading the latest book by John Timpson of Timpson Shoe Repairs. The book talks about the reasons for the survival of Timpson Shoe Repairs when so many other larger and equally well-established companies have gone to the wall. The high street is a pretty spooky place if you think about it filled with the ghosts of retail chains - ou sont tous les magasins 'd'antan'? as François Villon would have put it looking at the C15th retail scene. ...
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18.08.08 | Colin Adamson

August Newsletter - Health without frontiers and devolved responsibilities Clients, Disability, NHS, Public Involvement, Surveys | (0)
A mixed range of opinions posted in July and early August. I offered the NHS a new rock anthem 'Turn Me Loose and Set Me Free' to celebrate as the NHS moves from targets to devolved responsibilities under the new Constitution. David Nicholson the NHS Chief Executive told patient and user representatives to 'cause more trouble'. Andrew Craig delved into the EU directive on health without frontiers with a reminiscence about handling a complaint for reimbursing a patient who saved her hearing by going off to France for an operation which the NHS kept promising but never delivered. He concluded that health travel would broaden the minds of British patients and vice versa. And acute trusts here looking to keep up their balance sheets would do well to consider where the waiting lists were longest in member states as health travel will work both ways. Fleishman-Hillards’ blog “Public Affairs 2.0” ...
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02.06.08 | Colin Adamson

100 already - a quick century for the Wandsworth LINk Clients, Local Involvement Network, Public Involvement | (0)
Friday (30th May) saw our 100th member registration - swift work considering the site only opened for business on 8th May and our mailing went out on Tuesday 13th May. We do not expect a telegram from our monarch but it is good to know that the citizens of Wandsworth are responding so well to the drive for LINk members. Thank you for signing up and for giving us feedback on the form and the process of registration which we have considered and responded to. Check out the Wandsworth LINk website and the registration form at www.wandsworthlink.org.uk. The LINks Host will of course be continuing the recruitment campaign to attract as wide and as numerous a membership as possible. There is a public meeting planned for the evening of 17th June at Balham library - more details on the website - where there will be an election for the Interim Executive. ...
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09.05.08 | Colin Adamson

Wandsworth’s Local Involvment Network launches today Clients, Local Involvement Network, Public Involvement | (0)
Since our announcement last month, M-A-C has been busy working with the Wandsworth Care Alliance to launch Wandsworth LINk. The website www.wandsworthlink.org.uk went 'live' this morning.
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21.04.08 | Colin Adamson

We have caught our first LINks - the Wandsworth Care Alliance and the Partnership are chosen to be the LINks Host in Wandsworth Clients, Local Involvement Network | (1)
That Fabulous Beast Loyal readers will remember from past blogs our somewhat over-extended metaphor of that fabulous beast the greater spotted LINks seen prowling the precincts of Westminster - was the beast to be set free and be seen all over England as the new embodiment of patient participation? Would it flourish and survive where so many other species of patient engagement have failed and died out? Well in Wandsworth, we will be helping answer those questions. We will be establishing the best of habitats for this new animal working with the Wandsworth Care Alliance and Wandsworth Borough Council to set up the Wandsworth LINk - one of the first in the country. We have been writing about LINks in our blog for a long time now - the first article was in July 2006 and with regular mentions since then. We are now about to discover the difference between being the commentator ...
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29.01.08 | Colin Adamson

LINKSWORKS - Supporting User and Public Voice Networks for the NHS And Social Care Clients, Local Involvement Network, NHS, Public Involvement | (0)
Press Release: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 "We want to help the new user and public voices involvement networks known as LINks get off to the best possible start," Andrew Craig of the Moore Adamson Craig Partnership said today. The Partnership is launching a new suite of LINks-related products called LINKSWORKS® for the new world of local authority-based Local Involvement Networks designed to bring the voices of service users and the public into the decision making of commissioners and providers of health and social care. "The history of patient and public involvement in the health service has been a chequered one recently with Community Health Councils being closed and their ill-fated successor the Commission for Public and Patient Involvement in Health lasting less than five years," Andrew points out. "It is therefore vital to make sure the new arrangements get off to the best possible start by recruiting good people and reassuring local ...
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