‘Tokenistic’ Consultations a thing of the past

Chair Jeremy Ambache intends to develop further the processes of involving people in Wandsworth health and social care consultations and make ‘tokenistic’ consultations a thing of the past.

The Newsletter talks about lots of different ways in which the LINk has made its views known in the past and the ways in which it will be contributing in future. You can click through to the full text at the end of this news item.

User Involvement Strategy & Transforming Adult Care

Two big topics are Wandsworth Council’s User Involvement Strategy and the process of transforming Adult Care. Irene Storer an LINk Executive Committee member tells us of what happened when the Council offered her the chance of a Direct Payment. Jenny Weinstein explains what is involved in transforming adult care – more control for users thanks to Personal or Individual budgets is a central message. How this is done may create problems for some users and LINk and the Council are working with a reference group of service users and carers to monitor how the project is being put into practice.

A new project and a new set of initials – IAPT

The newsletter mentions a new multi-million pound project to Improve Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT). A LINk person is on the IAPT Board and will be advocating the approach suggested by local networks such as the WCEN and BME networks. For more about these organisations see the newsletter.

Click here to download the LINk Newsletter September/October 2009 (PDF, 755KB)