Set up of LINks (local involvement network)
Contact officer: Natalie Markham, project manager, Adult Services project team
Tel no: 0151 225 4964
Email: Natalie.Markham@liverpool.gov.uk
Start date: 1 April 2008
End date: 31 October 2008
Purpose of the exercise:
It is a statutory Department of Health requirement that council's develop a local involvement network that will allow people to have a say in the development of local health and social care services. This network has replaced the patient and public health forums that were linked to specific NHS trusts or the PCT.
This network will:
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act as a forum to enable everyone in the community to have their say and get involved in the shaping of local health and social care services
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make views and reports, about how local care services could or ought to be improved, known to those people who are responsible for commissioning, providing, managing or scrutinising local care services.
(A consultation exercise was carried out during 2007/08 to consult on the initial set-up of the council's network. Visit that consultation's page to see what was done.)
Visit the council LINks web page for more information on the council's network (including the LINk newsletter)
Who will be consulted and how:
A number of people will be consulted, including:
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Merseyside national health organisations
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housing associations
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education departments
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adult community and residential services
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the Local Community Network
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voluntary and community sectors organisations
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welfare organisations
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the other Merseyside councils
A number of methods will be used, depending on who is being consulted, including:
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presentations
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briefing notes
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bulletins
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national health and council publications
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the Merseyside Good Practice Group
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the Providers Virtual Reference Group
Who will the results of the exercise be reported to:
The results will be reported to the council's executive board