If you are a LINk member, you are invited to attend and report back on meetings and activities you attend wearing a LINk hat. Currently we have invitations for a couple of opportunities to do that. The first is a chance to join the Patient Information Group at St Georges Hospital with a first meeting on 9 June at 2pm and the Long Term Conditions Steering group (NHS Wandsworth).

If you are interested please contact the LINks office to hear more about what is involved via ‘Contact Us’  at the top of the page.

Externalisation in Wandsworth – what’s that?

Another opportunity to make your voice heard is offered by changes in the way NHS services are provided to you. We mentioned these changes in two 22nd April news items: the first featuring the PECMAN report back and the second giving the full list of provider services. These new arrangements are now being called ‘Externalisation in Wandsworth’. This is all about the new ways that services currently provided by NHS Wandsworth will be offered in future.

NHS Wandsworth would like to invite you to participate in a WANDSWORTH PROVIDER SERVICES EXTERNALISATION WORKSHOP  being held on Tuesday 23^rd June 2009 at 12.30 – 5.00pm in Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN.

This workshop will

• Explain the favoured options identified by the Board and outline the scope and limitations of each.
• Help you consider the implications for Wandsworth of these models by presentation of examples of these from elsewhere (case histories)
• Enable discussion and analysis of the likely outcome of implementation of each.

If you would like to sign up to this please let Colin Smith at NHS Wandsworth know as well as the LINks office.

Colin is the Public and Patient Involvement Manager at NHS Wandsworth and you can reach him at

Wandsworth Teaching Primary Care Trust
3rd Floor
Wimbledon Bridge House
Hartfield Road
London SW19 3RU

or by phone 0208 812 7743 or email at Colin.Smith@wpct.nhs.uk