RECENT NEWS

HealthwatchEngland - response to consultation

Following the public consultation on membership regulations for Healthwatch England, the Department has published its official response.

David Behan on Healthwatch

At a recent conference, David Behan, Director General of Social Care at DH and Lorraine Denoris, Healthwatch Implementation Lead were filmed talking about the opportunities that exist around developing Healthwatch.

David:

Lorraine:

LGA's updated resources page

LGA have updated their Healthwatch resources page. A series of factsheets that answer frequently asked questions are being published over the coming weeks and presentations from a recent programme of master classes for council officers and elected members are also available.

Building successful Healthwatch organisations - 15 case studies

This report seeks to assist local authority commissioners and their supporting stakeholders, to help them plan and implement robust and fit-for-purpose Healthwatch bodies by April 2013.

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION

The Department of Health's Healthwatch page

The CQC's Healthwatch page

LGA's Healthwatch resources (including factsheets on funding, ICAS and LINks)

As mentioned above, this page contains a comprehensive set of products and resources including factsheets, presentations and analysis of simulations.

The new health and care system 'info graphic'

The new system represented visually – a helpful tool to understand the new organisations and their roles.

Healthwatch Programme Board minutes

If you want to receive meeting minutes from the Healthwatch Programme Board, please remember to contact your LINks regional representative who will be able to share these with you. You can also find the minutes in the ‘Programme Board’ section of the library here.

Last Updated ( Monday, 16 July 2012 14:31 )