Better Diabetes Services for people living in Mid Essex
NHS North Essex is seeking people’s views on how best to integrate and join up diabetes services in mid and north east Essex.
We'd appreciate your views and ideas about how services could be better linked up. We have prepared a discussion document to help explain our plans and to let you know how you can get involved.
As part of the engagement we have planned a series of discussion workshops where we will invite your comments and suggestions. We will use feedback from these sessions and from the Diabetes Services survey to help shape diabetes services in the future.
Please click the following links to read the discussion document and see our feedback form.
Give us your views online by completing a short survey Diabetes Services Survey
E-mail us at public.involvement@nhs.net
Send us your views in writing to Communications, NHS North Essex, Swift House, Hedgerows Business Park, Chelmsford, CM2 5PF
Come along to an event – for further information and to book a place please visit the Diabetes UK website at www.diabetes.org.uk/In_Your_Area/Eastern/essex-patient-events/
Improving Maternity Services for people in Colchester, Tendring, Halstead and the Colne Valley
NHS North Essex and Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust are seeking views from people in north Essex on how to shape maternity services in the future.
We would like to invite you to attend one of our "Maternity Services Workshops" These open talk sessions will provide an opportunity to find out more and share your views and opinions.
To view a short film about maternity services please click here.
To read the Maternity Services Consultation document please click here.
To give us your thoughts and suggestions please click here.
New Local Arrangements in Shadow Form from April 2012
We are currently launching the next phase of transition towards a reformed NHS in north Essex.
The new arrangements are well on course to be in shadow form from 1 April this year. This will be a big step towards full establishment from 1 April 2013, subject to parliamentary approval of the Health and Social Care Bill.
Click here to read the full message from Sheila Bremner, Chief Executive NHS north Essex.
Transition 2011 in north Essex
We have been consulting with staff on proposed new structures for NHS North Essex. We are reorganising in order to succeed in the transition to new commissioning arrangements as proposed in the NHS reforms, which (subject to parliamentary approval) will take effect from 2013.
You can read the outcome report from this consultation here. You will see within it a summary of the decisions about the structures of NHS North Essex and how these have been influenced by the feedback from consultation. The document is written primarily for staff and contains links to the staff Intranet.
You can see the detailed organisational structures here.
Transition 2011 in north Essex
Thank you very much indeed to everyone who has responded to the proposals for consultation.
It is a fantastic response. There are many helpful ideas and offers that will influence the way we proceed. We are still ploughing through the feedback and each individial Director is reading through all of the original responses that relate to their proposed structures.
Directors will be completing their revised structures in the light of feedback. The Executive team will discuss the structures and HR framework along with another look at our estimated running costs. As we expected, there is new and further information to come from the Department of Health, and we will need to consider this as well as part of our preparation for publishing the outcome of our consultation.
Transition 2011 in north Essex consultation document
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Essex, Southend and Thurrock Dementia Strategy
This draft Essex, Southend and Thurrock Dementia Strategy will begin its public consultation on Monday 27th June 2011, you are invited to read the full consultation report or the summary version and provide comments by the 19th September 2011. To view the strategy documents please click here: http://www.midessex.nhs.uk/dementiastrategy
Single executive appointed for north Essex cluster
To find out the latest progress on establishing a single executive for the three PCTs in north Essex and background information regarding the consultation please click on the following link: http://www.midessex.nhs.uk/pctclusterconsultation
Proposed expansion in services to provide radiotherapy in Essex
For details of the public involvement programme please go to the following link:
http://www.midessex.nhs.uk/radiotherapydiscussiondocument Thank you for taking the time to return your feedback the deadline to return feedback was 25 May 2011 and the discussion period has now ended.
To read the outcome of the discussion please click on the following link which will take you to the press release: NHS Mid Essex Board accept radiotherapy recommendation
Please click here to read the Radiotherapy Board Papers, the concerns raised by Broomfield Radiotherapy Actiont Group (BRAG) and the statement from BRAG which was read out at the board meeting.
Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS
The Coalition Government has committed to increased funding for the NHS but in return, the NHS needs to reform. The White Paper sets out the Government's ambitious plans to reform the NHS.
For more information and to read the White Paper, visit the Department of Health website at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/LiberatingtheNHS/index.htm
Maternity services in Braintree
Your local NHS is improving maternity services in Braintree by:
- continuing to adopt national best practice
- offering better choices of maternity care services for local mums-to-be
- creating new accommodation in Braintree that will replace the unit provided currently at the William Julien Courtauld Hospital.
This consultation invited staff and local people to have a say in the development of the new base for local services. Click here to read more. Thank you to those of you that took the time to feedback your views the closing date for feedback was 11 January 2011.
Better health for people with learning disabilities
NHS East of England has launched a formal consultation on the proposed Vision for Better Health and Well-being for People with a Learning Disability and their Families. The consultation runs from 12 October 2010 to 11 January 2011 and there is a regional public event 'Bigger Health Day' being held on Monday 15 November 2010. Please visit www.eoe.nhs.uk/learningdisability for more information, audio and Easy Read versions, and to give your feedback.
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment: draft for consultation
Primary Care Trusts are required to publish a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) and use it as the basis for commissioning pharmaceutical services and determining applications from pharmacy contractors and dispensing doctors wishing to provide pharmaceutical services in the area. The deadline for giving your views on the draft document was 29 November 2010. We are now compiling the final report which will be published on this website on 1st February 2011. Thank you to those who participated by giving their feedback.
Your choice of GP practice: a national consultation on how to enable people to register with the GP practice of their choice
This consultation is now closed.
For more information, please view the national website by clicking here.