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Supporting Carers
Supporting Carers
If you are a carer in need of some support, or maybe you know somebody who is and does, then Supporting Carers in Essex offers “A single source of help and advice for all unpaid carers”. This organisation is a partnership of registered charities working together offering a single point of contact by phone or email. The group offers the following range of support Continue reading
Quality Care Commission Visit Colchester
Something to say about NHS Care?
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of all health and social care in England. They have powers to register, monitor and inspect all health & care services and, in September, they are visiting Colchester to find out what you have to say about local services, in particular those provided by the Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust. Taking place on Monday 7th September between 6pm – 7:30pm, at Colchester Town Hall (in the Grand Jury & West Committee rooms), you are invited to meet with the CQC’s inspectors and share your experiences with them. Of course, if you can’t wait until then, you are able to share your experiences anonymously at any time by contacting the CQC on:
- e: [email protected],
- t: 03000 16161,
- w: www.cqc.org.uk.
The CQC’s inspection method when reviewing a hospital or other service is focussed around 5 key questions:
- Are they safe? Are you protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
- Are they effective? Do they provide your care, treatment and support achieving good outcomes, helping you to maintain quality of life and based on the best available evidence?
- Are they caring? Do staff involve and treat you with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.
- Are they responsive to people’s needs? Are services organised so that they meet your needs?
- Are they well-led? Does the leadership, management and governance of the organisation make sure it’s providing high-quality care that’s based around your individual needs, that it encourages learning and innovation, and that it promotes an open and fair culture?
NHS Consulting on Care Closer to Home
Care Closer to Home and Urgent Care consultations:
The North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group, with its partners, has started a 10 week consultation aimed at finding ways to provide effective and safe care within the community – known as Care Closer to Home. Have your say on plans to provide health and social care closer to peoples’ home. Please read the NE Essex CCG’s consultation document. Local people across north east Essex are being asked for their views on how health and social care services could be provided closer to their homes in the future.
The consultation is also suggesting a redesign in the way emergency and urgent care might be provided too, as part of its urgent care strategy. Their aim with both of these service redesigns is to ensure patients are at the centre of their care which will allow individuals to be seen in the right place, at the right time by the right expert.
These proposals follow a series of engagement activities, known as the Big Care Debate, in which many people called for services to be based around the individual needs of the patient as close to their home as possible.
Please give your views via an online survey.
If you prefer to download, print and post your response, please click the survey document here to download.
For further background, please see the CCG’s strategies published earlier this year:
- Care Closer to Home strategy;
- Urgent Care Strategy.
- Please see the latest version of the detailed Full Business Case for Care Closer to Home.
Please come to one of the public meetings being held to hear a presentation and give your views, to book your place, please email [email protected] or call them on 01206 286500:
| Colchester | Tuesday 13 January | 4pm-6pm | United Reformed Church, Lion Walk Colchester CO1 1LX |
| Colchester | Tuesday 13 January | 7pm-9pm | United Reformed Church, Lion Walk, Colchester CO1 1LX |
| Harwich | Wednesday 14 January | 4pm-6pm | Long Meadows Community Centre, Long Meadows, Dovercourt CO14 4US |
| Harwich | Wednesday 14 January | 7pm-9pm | Long Meadows Community Centre, Long Meadows, Dovercourt CO14 4US |
| Walton | Friday 16 January | 4pm to 6pm | Columbine Centre, Princes Esplanade, Walton on the Naze CO14 8PZ |
| Clacton | Friday 23 January | 4pm-6pm | Clacton Golf Club West Rd, Clacton CO15 1AJ |
| Clacton | Friday 23 January | 7pm-9pm | Clacton Golf Club West Rd, Clacton CO15 1AJ |
NHS NE Essex Care Strategy
The NE Essex CCG have recently published a new strategy for caring for adults, their families and carers who are facing conditions with limited life expectancy. This is part of a whole series of initiatives designed to customise NHS Service Provision for NE Essex’s needs – more can be found on their website at www.neessexccg.nhs.uk.
Part of the introduction of this end-of-life strategy document makes clear its objectives:
This document is a 5 year strategy detailing the future commissioning of end of life services across the health and social care economy. The document identifies the importance of raising the profile of achieving ‘a good death’ and putting mechanisms in place to achieve this.
The Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy acknowledges that there are many challenges to be overcome to ensure that everyone attains ‘a ‘good death’ irrespective of their background. The focus for the North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group End of Life Strategy is to ensure that all patients achieve ‘a good death’ and their families and carers feel supported.
The full document can be downloaded here – NE Essex CCG End of life strategy 2014.
Radiotherapy – Have Your Say
We have been asked to circulate the following:
Proposed expansion of services to provide radiotherapy in Essex
I am writing on behalf of the primary care trusts in the Essex Cancer Network to invite feedback on current proposals to expand radiotherapy in Essex. The attached discussion document explains the proposals and a feedback form is also attached for your written views. You can submit your views online, if you prefer, by using the following link:
www.midessex.nhs.uk/
Within the document attached, you will find further details on how to have your say including dates and venues of drop-in sessions and discussion workshops being held in Basildon, Colchester, Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea. Contact details are included should you wish to arrange a separate meeting for your group or organisation.
The PCTs wish to consider the proposals for expansion with full knowledge of the views of local people. We have distributed the discussion document and feedback form to a wide range of people. Please could you help us to reach as many people as possible by distributing to others in your organisation and to anyone who would be interested in taking part in this discussion.
We look forward to listening to your views.
Yours sincerely
Sheila Bremner
Chief Executive, north Essex PCT cluster and Chair of the Essex Cancer Network
On behalf of NHS Mid Essex, NHS North East Essex, NHS South East Essex and NHS South West Essex