Local Involvement Network LINk for Hertfordshire

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Local Involvement Network (LINk) for Hertfordshire
Appendix 1

• Tim Anfilogoff
• Policy Manager Users and Carers, ACS

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Policy

• For health and social care to fulfil its
  potential, members of the public should take a
  substantial role in shaping the care system's
  development, and patients and service users
  should be kept well informed of clinical
  processes and decisions (DH)

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LGA View

• LINks are an opportunity to strengthen local
  decision-making by involving groups and
  individuals from new and existing communities
  LINks give us a unique opportunity to listen to
  young people, busy working people and people from
  newly arrived communities - those who are seldom
  heard and even more rarely heeded
• Councillor David Rogers, Chair of the Local
• Government Associations Community Well
• -being Board,

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Legal Framework

• April 2008 Patient and Public Forums abolished
• LINks established
• Social Care focus, not just NHS
• HCC statutory duty to procure Host organisation
  by September 2008
• HCC statutory duty to ensure LINk activities
  under way from April 2008

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Regulations (1)

• Draft regulations consultation closed 21
  December 2007
• Government not yet published response
• Freedom of Information Act rights
• Adult Commissioners must respond to LINk reports
  within 20 days
• Childrens commissioners exempted

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Regulations (2)

• Right to enter adult health and social care
  premises except where one person has tenancy or
  licence
• Excludes bedrooms (unless invited by resident)
• Only accredited members to have right
• Code of conduct
• Childrens services are exempted

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Regulations (3)

• LINk referral of social care matters to OSC
• OSC must respond within 20 days setting out
  action to be taken and whether OSC will
  scrutinise the issue
• NHS Act to be modified so same applies to Health
  Scrutiny

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Phased Approach

• Three phases of support have been
• identified by DH and the National Centre for
• Involvement
• Getting Ready - January to March 2008
• Getting Going - April 2008 to March 2009
• Getting Better - April 2009 to March 2011

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Hertfordshire Developments (1)

• Early Adopter Commission for Patient and
  Public Involvement input January-October 2007
• Steering Group met four times
• Some community development work
• Stakeholder Conference October 2007

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Hertfordshire Developments (2)

• Stakeholders meeting convened by HCC 22 November
  2007
• Decision to hold elections to Transitional LINk
  Board as soon as possible
• January 2008 Transitional Board elected (10
  individual members, 9 voluntary sector members)
• 13 February first meeting of Board

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Membership

• Voluntary Sector membership
• Watford Indian Association (co-vice chair),
  Viewpoint (procurement group rep), Dacorum
  Patients Group, Hertfordshire Hearing Advisory
  Service, Alzheimers Society St Albans,
  Hertfordshire Mencap, Hertfordshire Age Concern,
  Carers in Hertfordshire (co-vice chair), POhWER,
  Vacancy
• Individual membership
• Henry Goldberg (Chair), Malcolm Rainbow, Norma
  Young, Santo Mann, Susan McCann, Doreen Bratby,
  Michael Taylor, Anne-Marie Smith, Jean Brown,
  Peter Williams

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Boards First Decisions

• Three sub groups set up to look at
• Organisation and Membership (including PPI
  Legacy)
• Communications
• Care Services
• Looking at support needs April to September
• 2008

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Procurement of Host

• Procurement group set up November 2007
• Draft specification published http//www.hertsdire
  ct.org/havesay/LINks/
• Closing date for comments 29 February
• 1 April date to advertise tender opportunity
• On target for September commencement