,

The Who’s Who Guide for London Has Been Updated

Each of the regional networks that comprise Regional Voices including LVSC, have produced a “Who’s Who” guide of key people working in health, wellbeing and care in each region. The guides include relevant contacts from clinical commissioning groups, health and wellbeing boards, NHS England area teams, commissioning support units, Public Health directors, local Healthwatch, etc. The update now also includes information about Health Devolution and Sustainability & Transformation Plans.

As we have limited capacity to fully update the guide, we would very much appreciate it if you could inform me of any changes in your area(s).

For further information and access to the guide, click here

Sandra van der Feen, Health Policy Officer, LVSC. Email: sandra@lvsc.org.uk. Please note my working days are Tue and alternate Tue & Wed only.

/by
, ,

Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme: Open Calls

New calls for proposals have been published under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme:

 

  • The call for proposals to educate and raise the awareness of girls and boys about gender-based violence (deadline 8th March)
  • The call for proposals promote the access to justice and support of victims of gender-based violence and the treatment of perpetrators (deadline 8th March)
  • The call for a pilot projects promoting diversity and unity in Europe (deadline 28th February)

 

Visit our website for more information on these and other open calls at Access Europe Network.

/by
,

Free Stay Well Guide to Local Health Services in Hammersmith & Fulham

A guide to all the health services available in Hammersmith & Fulham can be picked up free of charge at local libraries, GPs, pharmacies, community centres and voluntary organisations across the borough.

 

Stay well: Your guide to local health services in Hammersmith & Fulham  is packed full of tips on how to stay well, take care of yourself and your family, and make the most of local NHS services.

 

It also includes useful health information such as how patients can get a GP appointment when their own GP surgery is closed, who is eligible for a free flu vaccine, how much alcohol is safe to drink, what painkillers are safe for children, the early signs of dementia, and much more.

 

The booklet also has full colour maps showing where walk-in centres, urgent care centres and hospitals are located across North West London.

 

Dr Tim Spicer, chair of Hammersmith & Fulham CCG, said: “Patients and members of the public often ask us to provide a guide to local services which advises them where to go and what to do if they need medical help outside of normal surgery hours. This guide explains the different services that are available, where they’re located and when they’re open. It also reminds people to visit their local pharmacy to ask for advice at the first signs of illness and that they can get a weekend or evening appointment with a doctor by phoning NHS 111.”

 

/by
, ,

PEACE Project

After successfully applying to the Big Lottery Fund’s Celebrate programme, The PEACE (People, Ethnicity, Age, and Community Engagement) project; a cross borough partnership between Nubian Life Resource Centre and PLIAS Resettlement has been awarded £10,000 to create a PEACE Wall to be unveiled during PEACE Week in 2017.

The intergenerational project will work with communities from all cultural & faith backgrounds to create a Peace Wall consisting of Peace Quotes from residents of the two London Boroughs of Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham. The project will aim to  remind, inform, educate and raise awareness of the importance of peace at an individual and community level.

The exciting initiative will consist of:

  • 2 community Peace meals; residents, faith and community groups and prominent figures, will be asked to write a sentence/quote on why peace is important to them and how can it be achieved locally and maintained.
  • An intergenerational Expression of Peace Competition for schools, faith groups and community organisations
  • Unveiling of the PEACE Wall – a collection of all the quotes collected throughout the project

Norma Hoyte from PLIAS Resettlement & Jazz Browne from Nubian Life Resource Centre says: “By creating a Peace Wall where individual statements will be recorded, we hope that many lives will be affected by the creativity of the peace wall with the ability to learn from each other. We will also have discussion topics on how to create peace across the different communities; this will be an interactive session which will be videoed.   We will create an online short tool kit which can be distributed via social media to promote and champion the need for PEACE”.

To be part of this exciting project please contact Jazz Browne on T: 020 8749 8017 or by email: jazz.browne@nubianlife.org.uk

 Send your PEACE Quote (no more than 25 words) to peaceproject@plias.co.uk

About Big Lottery Fund

  • The total amount available across the UK for the Celebrate programme is £5 million. To find out more please visit: biglotteryfund.org.uk/celebrate.
  • *YouGov poll on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund with 2109 respondents, June 2016.
  • The Big Lottery Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK. We put people in the lead to improve their lives and communities, often through small, local projects.
  • We are responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised by National Lottery players for good causes. Every year we invest over £650 million and award around 12,000 grants across the UK for health, education, environment and charitable purposes.
  • Since June 2004 we have awarded over £9 billion to projects that change the lives of millions of people. Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £34 billion has been raised and more than 450,000 grants awarded.
/by
, ,

Communities Fund

The Department for Communities and Local Government will provide funding up to approximately £70,000 to local authorities working with community groups to deliver solutions to entrenched social issues for example relating to:

  • Early intervention and high cost individuals- people falling through gaps in statutory services perhaps because they do not meet individual service criteria or thresholds
  • Adult social care– for example: tackling social isolation including via community transport schemes; projects aimed at safeguarding vulnerable people including rehabilitation and preventative work around domestic abuse; and/or; work aimed at increasing public health and wellbeing
  • Children’s Services– this could, for example, include work around disabled children’s support services or those aimed at helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds
  • Employment Support– we are particularly interested in proposals working with those furthest from the labour market and/or where the training is tailored to reflect opportunities in the local employment market and so more likely to result in sustainable outcomes

This will be through £2.5m funding over the next two years. They invite proposals from local collaborations between local authorities and neighbourhood or community organisations to bid by 16 January. Bids should be for new projects or to extend an existing project into another area but not to prop up an existing approach.

Funding would be provided in the form of a direct grant to a local authority during the 2016/17 financial year. We expect that work would start in 2016/17 and continue until the summer of 2018.

Visit website

/by
, , ,

Carers Network News 

H&F Carers Forum

A formal group to enable carers to have a stronger voice and influence local systems, supported by Carers Network.

The forum enables you to have your say on local issues for carers, informs the Tri-Borough Carers Partnership Board, and helps Carers Network plan future events and activities.

The next H&F Carers Forum will be on Friday 27 January 2017
1.30pm-3.30pm at Bishop Creighton House,
374-380 Lillie Rd,
SW6 7PH

Please call 020 7386 9417 to register.

Upfront: Online tool for carers

Upfront is a simple tool from Carers UK for carers who are new to the maze of benefits and entitlements.

Fill in your details, spend a couple of minutes answering questions and it will guide you to the information you need.

Visit Upfront here

Dementia: care, support and awareness

The Department of Health has launched its new Dementia 2020 Citizens’ Engagement Programme.

They would like to hear from people living with dementia, their families and carers as to whether policies on improving dementia care and support are making a positive difference and where further improvements may be needed to improve the delivery of local services and support.

Find out more and complete an online survey here

/by
,

CQC Inspection of London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. Our job is to check whether hospitals, care homes, GPs, dentists and services in your home are meeting national standards.

From 7th February, our inspectors will be undertaking a inspection to look at emergency and urgent care, emergency operations centre, and resilience at London Ambulance Service. In addition to the central London area and head office, we are aiming to cover ambulance locations in the north and south west, and north and south east. The teams will inspect a number of ambulance stations, and hospitals the patients are taken to in order to review all aspects of the service.

 

CCQ’s last inspection

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust  is rated as inadequate.

You can read the report from our last inspection, which took place in June 2015.

The feedback people gave us about their experiences of care before the last inspection was important and helped us to decide what to look at during our inspection.

 

Give us your feedback online by clicking on the link below

 

Tell us about other services

You can also tell us about care from other services in your area such as your GP, dentist or care home. We’ll use this information to help us to decide when to inspect and what we should look at on inspections.

Phone: 03000 616161 Email: enquiries@cqc.org.uk Online: Click here

/by

Joint Alert: Compliance with Data Protection Law

The Fundraising Regulator and the Charity Commission have issued a joint alert to all charities, reminding trustees that they must, in addition to following charity law requirements, ensure that there are systems in place at their charity to identify and comply with any data protection laws and regulations that apply to its activities.

Following data protection law is a critical compliance area for any charity that handles personal information. It includes, but is not restricted to, collection, use and storage of donors’ personal data. The Commission’s guidance – Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties (CC20) is clear that trustees are responsible for having systems and processes in place at their charity to ensure that its fundraising is compliant with this legislation.

This week, two charities have been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act and have been issued with monetary penalties by the Information Commissioner. Further charities are also under investigation.

The Commission and the Fundraising Regulator are therefore issuing this alert to support trustees as well as remind them of their legal duties and responsibilities in this area. This alert should be read in conjunction with our published guidance, the published guidance of the ICO and Fundraising Regulator alongside seeking professional advice where necessary. Below we also set out key steps as regulators we expect trustees and charities to immediately take;

  • Immediately cease any activity without explicit consent described and set out by the ICO notices of 5 December 2016 as being in breach of data protection law
  • Review and assess activities in the areas of data collection, storage and use to ensure it is compliant with data protection law – this should include reviewing fair processing statements to ensure they are explicit, clear, transparent and highly visible
  • Review and assess current data governance systems and processes to ensure they are fit for purpose and evidence sufficient oversight, control, are operating and effective – this includes ensuring there is a clear framework of ownership and accountability in place
  • Where breaches are identified ensure you review the requirements for reporting to the ICO and comply – where a notification of breach is required to also submit a notification to the Charity Commission under the reporting a serious incident process
  • Where breaches have occurred consider the risk to those whose data has been breached and any action required to mitigate risks to those individuals and their data – this should include notification to those affected if appropriate following a risk assessment by the data controller
  • Notify the Charity Commission about any investigation of their charity by the Information Commissioner by reporting a serious incident

You can find the full alert on our website. If you have queries regarding this or any other aspect of fundraising regulation, please send us an email at enquiries@fundraisingregulator.org.uk

/by
,

European Solidarity Corps

The European Commission have launched the European Solidarity Corps! This allows young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to make an important contribution to society across the EU. Young people will also have the chance to gain invaluable skills and experience at the start of their career.

 

The Commission is presenting a series of actions to boost youth employment, improve and modernise education, more investment in skills of young people, and better opportunities to learn and study abroad.

 

The main goal is to improve opportunities for young people so join here and share the message!

 

To find out more click here.

/by
,

Carers Network are expanding the Time Bank into H&F

There are now just 11 days remaining in our challenge to raise £2,500 by 19 Dec so that we can expand the Carers Time Bank into Hammersmith & Fulham and also secure a permanent place on the Global Giving crowdfunding platform, which will help Carers Network raise more money for carers in the future!
http://bit.ly/carers-time-bank

To succeed we still need to raise another £800 in 11 days!

Thank you if you have already donated or shared the project link, but if not, we need your support to help us get DONATIONS and SPREAD THE WORD so we can succeed in the challenge!

You can see the project page by clicking here.

Can you help us? You can do this by:

If you are able to help us it would be greatly appreciated! It really would make a big difference.

/by