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We’re here today at the Brookdale club to celebrate the LINk’s AGM.
...taking time and we weren’t getting through our business, so we decided to trial some
LINk Briefing Sessions where we invited key speakers and key professionals from various
statutory organisations to come and tell us about new developments, new service areas...
...just before I get going: Who’s from Reddish or Brinnington? Yep, okay, good. Heatons?
Right. Marple way? Yeah. Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme? Yep, quite a lot from there. Anybody
from Cale Green, Davenport, Bridgehall etc? Yeah, so we’ve got a fair mix in the...
[inaudible and laughter]
...by themselves, if they wanted a gold plated one, they’d have to pay extra...
...about the cost of drugs that are in people’s bathroom cabinets. Untouched, unused until
people die or hand them in...
...HealthWatch should be a consumer champion at both a local level and a national level,
which before we’d only had at a local level.
To my mind it went very well because it had different aspects to it in terms of providing
people with all the information which was provided by the local authority people and
the PCT people. So the information content was there. And also people had all the opportunity
to ask and contribute to whatever extent they wanted.
I thought this years’ AGM was very, very good. Very enlightening. Much better than
the last one.
I thought the AGM was very informative and the speakers explained their jobs very well.
I wanted to join the Core Group because Throughout my life - and I’ve worked in the health
service, I’ve worked with the heath service and outside the health service - I’ve often
said to myself, ‘I could do that better’, ‘Why don’t they do this?’, ‘Why are
they doing that?’ As a Core Group member I think I am in a good position now to actually
question things that are done, changes that are made and perhaps influence them in a better
way. In a way I've always said I’d like to. And that’s why I decided to join the
Core Group.
The best thing that we did this year was to get into the hospitals to do Enter & View
which was a major strike for the group.
The biggest success of the LINk this year has been, we’re just beginning to get onto
the... helping with the decision making of the PCT with these Programme Board that we’re
on.
The greatest achievement is that we’ve got the hospital, the council and the Stockport
NHS to appoint outside consultants to address the issue of discharge processes because we’re
told by the Foundation Trust that it’s costing £2 million per year that could be recycled
into care for patients.
Yes, I’d like to add that I second everything that’s been said but also, I note that in
the Quality Accounts for Stockport Foundation Trust, discharge is put as a priority and
named as being at our request. LINk request. I would also say it is one of the top priorities
for the next year.
The greatest success of the LINk this year - as you’ve seen today at the AGM - is the
getting together of everybody . Good minds. Good People. Good thinking. And I think that’s
the greatest achievement that we’ve kept so many together.