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Local Involvement Network

30.09.08 | Andrew Craig

Expanding LINks? Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, NHS, Public Involvement | (1)
Forget the DH site, the place to look for what's happening in public and service user engagement is increasingly Communities and Local Government (CLG), which is churning out more useful stuff about civic engagement and community participation across the board. But should we welcome this uncritically, especially when it involves LINks? For instance, I noticed this in the most recent Consultation Institute newsletter: "Gung-ho CLG seems so enthused by LINks that it seems keen to expand the concept beyond health and social care and is inviting Councils to submit proposals. Where this leads is anybody’s guess but the idea of networks of interested stakeholders is a powerful concept." Is this an idea linked (no pun intended) with CLG minister Hazel Blears - she of the recent community empowerment white paper and participatory budgeting experiments - to extend LINks straight across everything a Council does? Sounds like the kind of thing that the "government in waiting" might be keen on too. And it ...
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29.09.08 | Colin Adamson

An invitation to help us refocus our purpose and our offer Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, Public Involvement, Surveys | (1)
The Partnership is having one of those moments of corporate introspection when we look at what we do and think about the best way to explain it to our clients - present and future - and to ourselves too. (jump to our strap-line competition here) So we have done a bit of brainstorming and come up with twenty suggestions on how we might define what we offer to clients and encapsulate that in a pithy and memorable way. The new phrase will go as part of a new look on our website. We need an outside eye and would like to invite you to help us choose which one describes us best. Our current account of ourselves and what we do can be seen at www.mooreadamsoncraig.co.uk and the associated blog site here (www.publicinvolvement.org.uk) site. This is, as many readers will at once realise, is an example of the approach know as 'crowdsourcing'. The phrase ...
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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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26.08.08 | Colin Adamson

Insert your LINk link now - the NHS is on Facebook Local Involvement Network, NHS, Public Involvement, Social networking | (1)
The lead article in the HSJ of 18th August looked at how NHS organisations are using this Web 2.0 social networking site to connect with patients, staff, Government ministers and the public. Some are using it to tell people more about the personal side of their lives. We are told that the Health Secretary Alan Johnson "is taking his excellent staff out for a very liquid lunch". Hmm - rather inviting comments from the alcohol units police but we get the point - Government ministers are human and have humans working for them. Andrew Duggan of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust wants to use Facebook to engage with young people and is quoted as saying that "an important objective for us at the moment is engaging with younger people; our staff, patients and (foundation trust) members of the future". He acknowledges the fact that this group is traditionally difficult to engage with. This is the ...
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12.08.08 | Colin Adamson

Canada Post Local Involvement Network, Public Involvement | (0)
The current Canadian obsessions are the price of gas for their cars - now going down with every change monitored cent by cent - and detached human parts. The running (floating) story is feet being washed up on various shores thanks to the buoyancy of trainers but this has been pushed aside in the national media by the horrifying reports on the dangers of decapitation by fellow travellers on the bus. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="In Canada, by C.Adamson"][/caption] There was an immediate rush of stories about the civic duty of the fellow passengers on the bus. Should they have intervened? Or was their primary duty to themselves and to get out of there? I have no doubt as to what my reaction would have been. I have not been on a Greyhound bus since the time in the 60's when the company offered what was surely the best travel bargain ever ...
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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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