Local HealthWatch for Camden

Camden LINk will close March 2013 to be replaced by Local HealthWatch the consumer champion for Camden health & social care service users.

What is Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)?

Patient and Public Involvement allows patients to be involved in decisions about their care and lets communities be involved in their local health service. Patients, the public, carers and other service users can influence their own care and treatment, bring about improvements to the way care is provided and provide feedback about health services.

Patients have a right to good treatment in a comfortable, caring and safe environment and be given information to enable them to make choices and to feel in control. Their right to honesty, respect and dignity should be observed.

Local Involvement Networks (LINks)

Camden LINk is a voluntary organisation set up to give you the opportunity to influence local health and social care services. It has been set up to help make sure the people in your area get the health and social care services they need, and anyone can get involved.
Your LINk wants to hear about your experiences of health and social care services and your ideas for improvements or changes. Your LINk can help bring about changes - whether they are big or small.

You can contact us by email: camdenlink@gmail.com 

A Local Involvement Network (LINk) is an association of individuals, voluntary organisations, faith and community groups, who will work together to both improve local health and social care services and influence change where necessary.
More about Camden LINk

 

GET INVOLVED WITH CAMDEN LINk

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There are many ways that you can get involved with the work of Camden LINk whether you have a lot or little time to spare.
Get involved with Camden LINk

 

WHAT CAN CAMDEN LINk DO FOR YOU?

Mother, baby and doctor

LINk will seek out opinion, investigate issues and work to improve health and social care services by ensuring the voice of local people is heard.

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What will Local HealthWatch do?

Blue Badge parking in Camden

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Queen's speech: where's the zeal to reform social care?

Care Home fees.

People throughout the UK are wrongly paying thousands of pounds in care fees which should be fully funded by the NHS. If you (or a relative) are paying for care, you may be eligible for full NHS funding. People in nursing homes, residential homes or living at home can all make a claim for full NHS funding. Claims can also be made on behalf of deceased relatives. The NHS is responsible for fully funding the care of people who have a 'primary health need'. The NHS use certain criteria to determine whether a person has a 'primary health need'.
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COPD sufferers air quality levels for London

 

Get the hygiene rating of your favourite restaurant

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Local government is facing the most severe funding cuts for a generation. As a result Camden Council is faced with big financial challenges that mean we have to take tough decisions.
Camden Adult Social Care BSL consultation -BSL video

A selection of Camden Health Scrutiny Committee items (contains webcasts, diagrams,maps and reports)

Doctors in UK to be investigated over female circumcision claims

Council Cabinet 18/04/2012 deputations for Greenwood Centre (webcast)

Council Cabinet 18/04/2012 report on Greenwood Centre (webcast)

 

Introduction to Camden Clinical Commissioning Group (CCCG)

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Dr. Caz Sayer CCCG Chair

Camden Clinical Commissioning event (Cilla Freud Camden LINk member speaker)

Update on commissioning , joint strategic needs assessment and integrated care

Camden Clinical Commissioning Group Chair Caz Sayer rejects Camden Road surgery closure.

2012 is going to be a big year for the NHS & Social Care

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING ON BEHALF OF CAMDEN PATIENTS & PUBLIC?

A small example of the large number of meetings we attend with Camden health and social care providers in order to raise the concerns of Camden patients and residents.

October 2011

 

 

The following extracts are from Camden TV (www.camden.tv)

A short video history of Camden Town

Samantha Cameron visits the Surma Centre

What is a hospice and palliative care

Free Self Management Courses to help people cope with the day-to-day issues associated with living with a long-term condition/s are available online.

Community based courses have been available for a number of years and the course is now available online.

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Sensory Needs

Video newsletter for Deaf Camden residents

Sensory Forum video

Camden Sensory Needs Forum Autumn 2011 meeting update - BSL video

Sensory Needs Forum-BSL video

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LINk NEWS

Supporting LHW Pathfinders - Local Government Association/Regional Voices/NHS Institute for innovation and improvement

LINks will be abolished and replaced by Local Healthwatch April 1st 2013. This paper explains what Local HealthWatch and Healthwatch England will look like and explains the intentions of the Health & Social Care Act 2012 in relation to public involvement in health and social care

From the Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP Secretary of State for Health to Professor Malcolm Grant Chairman NHS Commissioning Board Authority

More News

Local News

Camden Community News

The mother of a mentally ill man faces six-hour trips to visit him after he was moved from their local NHS unit because of bed shortages.

With less than a month to go until London Health 2011, the South London HIEC is preparing to showcase its work on nursing networks on a pan London basis.

Tackling alcohol abuse, childhood obesity and cancer are the top priorities for a new partnership between the Mayor of London, London Councils and the NHS, to improve the health of all Londoners.

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Coming Events

24/05/2012
London Voluntary Resource Centre Seminar Rooms 2&3