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Projects

Current Projects include:

Healthwatch

Healthwatch will be established as a new independent consumer champion for health and social care in April 2013. LINk will become part of the new Windosr Ascot & Maidenhead Healthwatch.

It will:

ensure that the views and feedback from people who use services, carers and members of the public are integral to local commissioning
provide advocacy and support to people and help them to make choices about services
provide intelligence for HealthWatch England about the quality of providers

Key differences between Local Involvement Networks and Healthwatch

LINKs - Influence Local Services, have a focus on community voice and having a local voice

Healthwatch - Will participate in decision making via the Local Authority health & wellbeing board, help & support individuals as well, be a local and national voice through HealthWatch England.

Doctor Surgery Premium Rate Telephone Lines

In the Windsor and Maidenhead area the LINk have identified 3 surgeries that are still using premium rate lines despite the Department of Health requesting that this should cease. The LINk have taken the matter up with The Primary Care Trust and are awaiting their response.

Past Projects include:

Investigation of good practice in care home assessment of service users with a diagnosis of dementia
Homelessness
Hospital Discharge
Adult Services Personal Budgets - My Care, My Choice
User Led Organisations

Your LINk needs you

Your local LINk is looking for volunteers to help with a variety of activities and tasks.

Our volunteering opportunities include: giving feedback to the LINk about your health and social care experiences; helping out at a local event; being part of project team who investigate local issues; being part of a visiting team that enters and views local care services.

All volunteer work is entirely flexible to suit your needs, and we appreciate any help that you give. Remember, volunteering is a fantastic way to give something back to your local community and it's great for any CV.

We provide full training and support to all our volunteers and you will receive out of pocket expenses. For the 'Enter & View' work you will be required to undertake an enhanced CRB check.

Contact: wamlinks@hotmail.com

Adult Services - Personal Budget - My Care, My Choice - 2012

"My Care, My Choice" is the name of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead's approach to social care. It enables people eligible for care assistance funded by the Royal Borough to have more flexibility and choice.

Personalisation Project report 2012

Investigation of Good Practice in Care Home Assessment of Service Users with a Diagnosis of Dementia

Carers and family members felt that the care plans were being written for their loved ones at a stage in which their dementia had deteriorated so much that they had forgotten what their usual routines were.