Have a say in local health and social Care

Local Involvement Networks for South Gloucestershire

The LINk will be a network of local people, organisations and groups that want to make health and social care services better, The LINk’s membership is small at the moment and urgently needs people from the local community who feel strongly about local health and social care services.

You can become part of the new way for local people to have their say about local health and social care services, and about the way they are run and developed by joining the South Gloucestershire Local Involvement Network.

The LINk will make it easier for the communities’ voices to be heard about health and social care.

You can participate in the LINk as much or as little as you wish from receiving information regularly to being involved in working groups. You can join the LINk as an individual or as a representative of a voluntary or community group.

South Gloucestershire LINk is having its next steering group meeting on Thursday December 4th, from 1pm until 3pm, at the Old Grammar School, High Street, Chipping Sodbury. If you are interested in coming along to this meeting please do so.

The LINk is looking for people to participate in working groups. You can sign up for these groups if you are already involved in the LINk, or anyone can get involved in these groups you don’t have to be a LINk participant already. Working groups cover many issues related to LINk work and to health and to local health and social care services including: Community Engagement, Governance, Direct Payments, Frenchay Hospital, Community Care and Housing.

For more information about the South Gloucestershire LINk contact:

Sarah Booker - Development and Information worker for South Gloucestershire LINk

( 0117 9589651or 0117 9589349

* sarahbooker@linksouthglos.org.uk

Or write to the LINk at:

The Care Forum, Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue Bristol BS16 2QQ