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Please note that the 01243 842894 tel number is no longer used.
Please contact me on 01903 707455.
Thankyou: Mark 27th November 2008
News
Please note my contact details are changing:
E mail address is now: mark.searle@westsussexpct.nhs.uk
Postal address and phone numbers below. Old email address is now closed.
Thanks
Mark Searle
ABI Co-ordinator for West Sussex
West Sussex PCT
The Causeway
Goring by sea
West Sussex
BN12 6BT
Phone: 01903 707455
Fax: 01903 506809
Mobile: 07795 427161
Please note I work Tuesdays and Thursdays at the PCT.
Changes to the Acquired Brain Injury Co-ordinator role
As from December 2007 I shall no longer be working for BSUHT and based at Hurst wood Park but the West Sussex PCT within the Continuing Health Care Team. I shall be managing the ABI patients funded by CHC in residential or rehabilitation placements. (more…)
Headway brain injury awareness week
Dear colleagues,
I hope this reaches most of you before you head off for the Christmas break.
After a great deal of work and planning, we are in a position to update you
on the detail for next year’s awareness campaign, which will take place
between 31 March and 6 April 2008. As this is two weeks later than the DANA
Brain Injury Week and to minimise any confusion, the campaign will be
entitled Action for Brain Injury Week - or ABI for short. (more…)
Online Petition for the East Sussex ABIC Post
Please sign our petition to help save the ABIC Post in East Sussex. This is a petition organised by our partners in SABIF, the Sussex ABI Forum.
To all Network Co-ordinators,
The DH have asked NHS Networks to help them in disseminating information about Our NHS, Our Future (aka the NHS Next Stage Review aka the Darzi Report) to as many NHS staff and users as possible.
We have been asked to send you all this letter and report summary from Lord Darzi, which you are encouraged to forward to – or bring to the attention of – your members.
More information on the Darzi Report, and the interim report itself, can be found at www.ournhs.nhs.uk
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish networks – obviously this doesn’t apply to you so please delete this.
Best,
Mike Simpson
Website Editor, NHS Networks
www.networks.nhs.uk
0116 222 1423
mike.simpson@networks.nhs.uk
today’s tie: killer whales
Bike to work? Join Spokes, the NHS Cycling Network
www.networks.nhs.uk/spokes
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From: Professor Ara Darzi [mailto:news@nhs.net]
Sent: 30 October 2007 10:46
To: catherine.coe@nhs.net
Subject: Update from Minister for Health on the future direction of the NHS
Dear Colleague
As many of you will know, over the last three months I have been travelling the country to
seek the views of health and social care staff as part of the Our NHS, our future Review.
Unfortunately, I can’t get around to see all of you in person, so I thought it would be helpful to
send you a quick update on the review, and I have included below a summary of the interim
report that I published on the 4th October.
The report is based on what I have heard to date from staff, the public, patients and
stakeholder organisations.
It makes the point that the NHS has vastly improved over the past ten years, thanks to the
commitment and hard work of people like you, while acknowledging there are some
immediate issues that people have told us we need to tackle.
Most importantly, it sets out the emerging vision for the future: to develop an NHS that is
relentlessly focused on delivering the highest quality of care for all. Care that is fair,
personalised to individual needs, effective and safe.
If you’d like to read the full report, please visit www.nhs.uk/ournhs .
We are now entering the next and most important stage of the review: developing the vision
into a meaningful set of plans for the future. This is where your contribution is more important
than ever!
We need NHS and social care staff to get actively involved if we are to achieve this vision.
I stress, and my Ministerial colleagues support this, that this is not about imposing change from
the centre.For us all to take the NHS forward, and to improve our services, the NHS needs to involve its entire staff better than it has in the past.
I agree with what many of you have told me as I’ve visited NHS and social care teams across
the country: effective change should be led by clinicians and should driven by the needs of
local communities.
Thank you to those of you who have contributed your views so far. I hope many more of you
will get involved, whether through the clinical working groups and consultative events that will
be happening in your area, or by sending me your views. You can find out more about
how to have your say from our website www.nhs.uk/ournhs .
With best wishes
Professor Ara Darzi
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
The advice in the NICE clinical guideline covers:
- what should happen before someone with a head injury reaches hospital
- who should go to hospital
- the checks and tests that should be carried out and the action that should be taken once the test results are known
- the care people should receive if they have been discharged from hospital within 48 hours
- the symptoms that healthcare professionals should watch out for after a head injury
- how information should be exchanged between different healthcare professionals
- the information and advice that should be made available to people with head injuries and their family or carers.
It does not specifically look at:
- the investigations or types of surgery that may be needed.
This guideline is an update of the clinical guideline CG4 on head injury that NICE produced in 2003. (more…)
15 Adventures, 16 Challenges and 20 Insights to help Adjustment following brain injury
£18.99 from www.braintreetraining.co.uk (more…)
The Mental Health Bill finished its ‘Ping Pong’ stage between Commons and Lords last week, so awaits only the Royal Assent. www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/pabills/200607/mental_health.htm
It will now come into force in October 2008 rather than April 2008 as planned.
Formal Consultation for Gold Standard Care Pathway
West Sussex ABI Network July 2007
Dear Colleague
As you may be aware members of the core team for the ABI Network and colleagues from the Sussex ABI forum have been writing a “Gold Standard Care Pathway” for people with ABI.
As part of our consultation process I am writing to you all to formally request your comments and feedback. (more…)
Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP).
The Centre for Social Care Work Research, University of Wales
Swansea, is conducting a review of high impact changes in the
delivery and organisation of social care services, on behalf of
the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP). (more…)
DOH calls for examples of good practice for NSF
NSF for Long-term (Neurological) Conditions
Call for examples of good practice
Introduction
The Department of Health is today publishing a call for examples of good practice from services, which can demonstrate that they are:
Conference on Commissioning for LOng Term Conditions Date Announced
‘Commissioning for People with Long Term Conditions’
You will shortly be invited to attend the event ‘Commissioning for People with Long Term Conditions’ on:
- Tuesday 18 September 2007 at the Royal Armouries, Leeds or;
- Wednesday 19 September 2007 at the Brewery, London (more…)
Dear UKABIF Member,
We are planning to release the next Newsletter in July, so we are writing to see if you are interested in submitting an article for inclusion in the Newsletter? If so, please send it in word format to allow for editing and formatting via e-mail by June 29th 2007. (more…)