Next Entries »

Category

Public Involvement

14.03.08 | Andrew Craig

Andrew Craig Gets Back to Basics and asks ‘What would William Beveridge say about topping up NHS care?’ NHS, Public Involvement | (2)
In a personal piece reflecting on his own healthcare needs, Andrew challenges current thinking on 'topping up' and consults the welfare state's urtext. I have been back to the source for all things enlightened about the British welfare state - Sir William Beveridge's magisterial and visionary 1942 report - produced in the darkest days of the second world war - entitled Social Insurance and Allied Services. I wanted to check on what he had said about people topping up their NHS care by paying a little bit extra on top of the what you get from the state as their entitlement. Did he predict that this would introduce the danger of a 'two tier' health service? Would Sir William agree with the modern day guardians of the NHS that "topping up" and "two-tierism" were heinous crimes to be discouraged at all costs? Far from it. The proponent of our universal and ...
Continue reading: Andrew Craig Gets Back to Basics and asks ‘What would William Beveridge say about topping up NHS care?’
12.03.08 | Colin Adamson

March Newsletter Public Involvement | (0)
As I filled in my petition to keep the Gipsy Hill Post Office open, I fell to wondering what post offices are for anymore? Are they amongst the things that we do not use or indeed value until they are threatened with closure? We spend a lot of time agonising over how we can get the citizenry to join in and take an interest in consultation. The cynic would say that the infallible way to do it is to threaten to close something that few use but everyone values. Add to this an improved facility somewhere else and you have the makings of a monster row. Post offices, hospitals it is the same - the actual function of the shop or healthcare unit is forgotten and it becomes an abstract symbol of the collapse of life as we know it. The challenge to those of us who believe in consulting people ...
Continue reading: March Newsletter
09.03.08 | Andrew Craig

Complying with the Section 242 Duty to Consult and Involve Users of Health Services Disability, NHS, Public Involvement | (2)
From his perspective as a PEC member in London's PCT-land, Andrew Craig offers a personal view about how to start complying with the new legal duty in Section 242 and make it work to the advantage of good governance in the NHS. What is "Section 242"? The NHS loves shorthand and "Section 242" will soon be part of it: shorthand in fact for the general legal duty on the NHS to consult and involve service users in everything to do with planning, provision and delivery of services. The duty specifically applies where there are changes proposed in the manner in which services are delivered or in the range of services made available. A briefing about Section 242 is available from the Department of Health (December 2007: Gateway Ref 9138) Statutory guidance - i.e. compulsory - about the 242 duty and the related sections of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health ...
Continue reading: Complying with the Section 242 Duty to Consult and Involve Users of Health Services
11.02.08 | Caroline Millar

£38,000 Down the Slide - a Quick Blog in the Park Public Involvement | (2)
Caroline Millar counts the cost to Hackney Council of failing to consult users about play equipment. Picture a Park Picture a park in a part of London thronged with under fives. Rumour has it that this part of London has the highest birth rate in Europe and it is certainly true that you cannot walk down the main shopping street without having to negotiate double, and even triple, buggies. In this park there is a very well used and very well-loved playground for under eights. Now imagine the parents turning up with their offspring to discover that the playground has been closed and the three most popular bits of old, shabby but nevertheless well-designed wooden equipment have been unceremoniously ripped out and replaced with two much smaller, rather ugly and uninspiring metal climbing frames. Citizens Aroused Now picture the next meeting of the park User Group (a normally staid affair attended by a well-meaning, ...
Continue reading: £38,000 Down the Slide - a Quick Blog in the Park
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 ...
Continue reading: LINKSWORKS - Supporting User and Public Voice Networks for the NHS And Social Care

Next Entries »