STOP PRESS: East and North Hertfordshire CCG have been approved as
joint commissioners of primary care services with NHS England. This is part
of a series of changes set out in the NHS Five Year Forward view, and gives
patients, communities and clinicians more involvement in deciding local
health services. For more information click here to visit the NHS England
website.
Diary Dates
> 10 March 2015
Stevenage PCG
> 18 March 2015
P. Network Quality
> 23 March 2015
L. Lea Valley PCG
> 25 March 2015
Welwyn Hatfield PCG
> 26 March 2015
Board meeting in
public
> 30 March 2015
North Herts PCG
> 1 April 2015
S.V. & Villages PCG
> 13 April 2015
U. Lea Valley PCG
> 21 April 2015
Health Maze Event
Working together to improve
neurological services in Hertfordshire
If you live with a 'progressive' neurological
condition - such as Parkinson's, Multiple
Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease or
Huntington's - or care for an adult with one of
these conditions, we want to work with you to
create the best possible neurological health
services and support the county can offer. Have
your say by coming to one of our discussion and
learning events that are being held around the
county.You can find out more about the project
and book your place at an event on our website
by clicking here. Please do share this
Diabetes Event
We hosted our first
public meeting with
Diabetes UK at the
information within your local community.
end of February.
Members of the public
heard about the work
that both
organisations were
doing to support
people living with
diabetes. Attendees
were shown the
patient information
packs distributed to
patients living with
Type 2 diabetes in
East and North Herts,
and received an
update on the Type 2
Together project.
Finding your way through the
Health Maze
We held the first in a series of events explaining
the NHS and the wider health and social care
agenda at the beginning of March. Our first
speaker was Beverley Flowers, Director of
Strategic Partnerships for the CCG, who
explained who commissions what in the health
sector today. You can download the
presentation given by clicking here. We'll be
Join the Dots
running a second session soon, and if you have
Chris Badger,
Assistant Director for
Health Integration
between the CCG
and Herts County
Council will be the
next speaker at our
Health Maze series of
events. A working
title of Chris' talk will
be: 'Joining the Dots
between NHS and
Social Care', and it
will be held on
Tuesday 21 April,
6pm-8pm. Keep the
date free in your diary
and we will send
further information as
and when we have it.
any suggestions for topics that you would like to
see covered then please drop us an email by
clicking here.
Become a Dementia Friend
Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society
initiative looking to increase awareness and
change the way we think, talk and act about
dementia. A Dementia Friend is someone who
has been to an information session and
commits to an action that makes the lives of
people living with dementia better. Anyone can
be a Dementia Friend and every action counts -
from helping someone to find the right bus to
spreading the word on social media. If you'd like
to become a Dementia Friend then email us by
clicking here, and we'll set up a session. We'd
like as many of our patient and carer members
to become Dementia Friends as possible.
Mark's Marathon
Bliss-ter Appeal
Our public
engagement
manager, Mark
Edwards, is running
the London Marathon
this year for Bliss; a
charity that helps
babies born too soon
and too ill and their
families. If you'd like
to donate or find out
more about his efforts
then click here.
A
new era of patient care in care homes
NHS England have announced that a proposal
to transform the support for care home
residents, put forward jointly by East & North
Hertfordshire CCG, Hertfordshire County
Council and the Hertfordshire Care Providers
Association, has been chosen from amongst 269
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bids as one of the most innovative in the
country. This means that the four-part care
home improvement programme - which health
and care organisations in our area are already
fully committed to - will now be able to draw on a
new national £200 million transformation fund
and expert help. You can find out more about
the programme through the NHS England
website by clicking here.
Public Engagement Annual Report
We presented our annual report for public
engagement to the last Governing Body in
Public meeting. If you were unable to attend, or
haven't seen the report since, then you can
download it from our website by clicking here.
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