Your Local Involvement Network Milton Keynes
Healthier Together Programme - South Midlands
The NHS across the region has come together to consider how healthcare in Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire can be among the best in the NHS. They want to ensure health services keep up to date with opportunities for improvement and tackle the challenges the health service faces as demand for services rises as a result of a growing and ageing population and finite public resources.This initiative is called 'Healthier Together'..
Click here for the video introducing Healthier Together South Midlands
healthiertogether.northamptonshire.nhs.uk/
Update on Podiatry
LINk:MK has continued to receive many concerns about Podiatry Services in Milton Keynes. You may recall that we advised a new service was to be launched in January 2012.This week we contacted Milton Keynes Council for an update so we could advise all our members with a further update. We received a statement from Mary Hartley, Senior Joint Commissioner for Adult Community Services at Milton Keynes Council.
Coming up on LINk LIVE
Join us on LINk LIVE this Wednesday, February 1st for a feature on our project with the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and working in partnership with local statutory organisations and community groups. We'll also be announcing details of our Citizens Meeting, and the election process for the LINk:MK Executive Committee.Patient Representation through LINk:MK - Guidance and Support Workshop
LINk:MK are pleased to announce the date for the next Guidance and Support Workshop on Monday March 26th. The workshop is aimed at members and participants who represent patients through LINk:MK, or may be interested in doing so, but we are pleased to hear from anyone who has an interest in patient representation and would like to attend, as long as space allows.Health and Social Care Focus Groups
A ‘Gateway' into health & Social Care Services - What should it look like? What do we need to do to get this right?The Adult and Older People's Transformation Directorate have asked LINk:MK to co- host another round of focus groups looking at the patient and public views on how the delivery of this service can be improved.