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“A consortium of leading women’s organisations providing expertise
on improving the health of all women and girls in England”
24 June 2016
WHEC Partner news
Maternity Action has launched the Maternity Care Access Advice Service to advise women
and professionals on access to NHS maternity care by women from abroad, including
charging for NHS care. The Maternity Care Access Advice Service provides telephone and
email advice and online information to help women get the maternity care they need, to
advise women on whether they have to pay for their NHS maternity care and to help
women deal with problems relating to their charging.
We provide advice to women, their friends and family, midwives, other health
professionals, advice workers and community workers.
We assist women from abroad, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, EU and EEA nationals
and UK citizens. All calls are free of charge. We provide telephone interpreting. The service
is confidential. We will not share your information with any other organisation or
Government agency without your permission.
Advice line: 0808 800 0041 (Freephone) Thursdays 10am-12noon only
Email advice: [email protected]
Online information: www.maternityaction.org.uk/maternitycareaccess
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
REMINDER: Carers strategy: call for evidence - closing date extended until 31 July 2016
This consultation seeks views on a new strategy for carers that will set out how more can be
done to support them.
The Department of Health has extended the closing date until 31 July 2016 (from June 30
2016). This will help to make sure DH hears from all those it would like to reach and
understand the complex diversity of caring roles – both carers and those they care for.
To read more, go to: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/carers-strategy-callfor-evidence
NHS ENGLAND
Event 21 July, Leicester: NHS England Forum for People with a Learning Disability and/or
Autism, their Families, Carers and Supporters
We will be talking to the Forum about four new guides for local commissioners to help
people with a learning disability and/or autism with mental health difficulties or behaviour
that challenges. The guides will help commissioners buy good services for people with a
learning disability- to help them be well supported to live at home rather than in hospitals.
We want people to tell us what they think. The guides are:
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Community Support (Intensive support) - Help keep people in the community who
might need a bit extra support
 Contact with the law (Community forensic) - People who may come in contact with
the law now or in the future
 Non-secure settings (Non-secure inpatient) – People who are an assessment and
treatment unit or a locked rehabilitation unit
 Mainstream services (Liaison function) – Have more people trained in learning
disability so that people with a learning disability can use mainstream services If you
have experience of these services, please let us know – we would love to hear from
you. We will send you an invite.
The aim is to make this an accessible event. We always book a Changing Places Toilet,
induction loop and a quiet room. Please let us know if you have any accessibility
requirements. The application form is attached to this email. If you have questions or want
help filling in the form you can email us [email protected] or you can phone us 0113 824
9686.
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Have your say on dental care
Closes 10th July 2016
Dental pain can have a big impact on someone’s life and those around them, so NHS
England is looking at how urgent dental care services are provided. NHS England is asking for
people to give their views on what they consider to be a dental emergency; what services
they think should be available; and where these services should be located.
To give your views to help improve dental services, go to:
https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/e9eff9ea
Award-winning lung cancer service helping even more patients with NHS England support
An NHS Challenge Prize winning lung cancer service is already making an even bigger
difference to patients, and helping doctors all over England develop the same innovative
techniques.
Patients at Barnet Hospital are now able to have small lung tumours diagnosed and cells
destroyed in a single hospital visit without surgery, after Royal Free Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust was awarded the £100,000 Cancer Challenge Prize for its innovative 30minute lung biopsy service.
The funding is also being used to support a training symposium which will help lung cancer
teams from all over England to introduce these techniques.
To read more, go to: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/06/award-winning-lung-cancerservice/
PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
New PHE Director of Strategy joins PHE
PHE are happy to announce that Adrian Masters has joined PHE from NHS Improvement as
our new Director of Strategy.
Adrian’s prior roles include Managing Director of Sector Development (which covered
responsibility for pricing, policy, economics and knowledge management) and Director of
Strategy at Monitor (which included responsibility for strategic communications) and
Director of the Health Team in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Before coming in to
government, Adrian had a range of roles in the private sector including McKinsey, IBM and
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PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PHE will benefit hugely from Adrian’s wealth of knowledge and skills in the health and care
sector as we all strive to achieve better outcomes for people come 2020. We look forward
to working with him at what is an exciting time for PHE and the public's health.
RESOURCES
New publication: Six principles for engaging people and communities Delete
National Voices has today published the following documents which were produced by the
People and Communities Board (chaired by Jeremy Taylor):
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Six principles for engaging people and communities: putting them into practice
Six principles for engaging people and communities: definitions, evaluation and
measurement (a redesign of the original six principles document)
You can get more information and download them here:
http://www.nationalvoices.org.uk/our-work/five-year-forward-view/new-modelpartnership-people-and-communities
TRAINING
Making the Case: Equalities and Human Rights, Thursday 7 July 2016, 10 AM - 4 PM
Who is it for?
Voluntary and Community Sector frontline organisations who want to learn how to use
human rights and equality documents to make the case for their services and improve their
work.
What is it about?
In the UK there are several documents that set out recommendations for Equalities and
Human Rights. Not all of these are legally binding but they are tools that you can use to
protect the rights of your service users, improve your own practice as an organisation and to
make the case for the continued provision of the services that you provide.
This training covers: The Equalities Act 2010, the Public Sector Equality Duty 2011, CEDAW,
the Localism Act 2011, using Judicial Review and influencing The Police Commissioners
Action Plans.
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This training will help you increase your knowledge of the pieces of current human rights
and equalities documents that are referred to in the UK, raise your awareness of how they
are relevant to your service users and give you the skills to use them to make the case for
your organisation and the services you provide.
What will you take away?
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Information on the key pieces of human rights and equalities legislation in the UK
Tools to help you advise your service users of their rights and how they can challenge
situations where they consider their rights to not be upheld
Resources to help you develop your knowledge of equalities and human rights
further and use them to the benefit of your service users
Register here.
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