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Lets Talk ABI UK Facebook Page

marksearle — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:22:16 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-Talk-ABI-UK/302988412444?ref=mf

Conferences and training in 2009

marksearle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:05:39 +0000

conferences-in-2009.doc

ABIC Telephone numbers

marksearle — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:32:44 +0000

November 27, 2008
1:00 pm

Please note that the 01243 842894 tel number is no longer used.

Please contact me on 01903 707455.

Thankyou: Mark 27th November 2008

ABIC Contact details

marksearle — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:50:33 +0000

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.

Guardian Article regarding Richard Hammond

marksearle — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:15:20 +0000

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2259964,00.html

Changes to the ABIC Role

marksearle — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:19:15 +0000

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.I will continue to be home based but will be working at the PCT on Tuesdays and Thursdays for part or all of the day and attending other meetings as appropriate. Obviously this will mean that I will have less time to attend other meetings and to visit patients and their families. My new job description is currently being re written to take into account these changes. I will still try to get to see people as soon as I can but there may be a longer than usual delay before I am able to do so.

Along with managing CHC placements I will continue with my role of service development and working closely with other agencies, especially Adult Services. The West Sussex ABI Network will continue to meet and I will keep the website updated with information, news and training as before. www.westsussexabi.co.uk

Please ensure that any referrals are posted to me at:

West Sussex PCT, The Causeway, Durrington. BN12 6BT My telephone contact details remain the same – 01243 842894 but you may also e mail me at mark.searle@aaw.nhs.uk as well as at abicoordinator@tiscali.co.uk

Headway brain injury awareness week

marksearle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:50:59 +0000

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. We have selected

this later date after listening to feedback from Headway Groups and Branches

and to ensure the dates clash with as few other events as possible.

We have compiled a survey into the attitudes of brain injury survivors,

which has been distributed both by direct mail to key stakeholders, via

Headway News and online at

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Q_2bkyGANK3aWCqm18Sq9ZmA_3d_3d

It is designed to find out how brain injury survivors struggle to gain

recognition and support in a variety of different environments. We hope the

results will enable us to get the message out that, while survivors achieve

amazing things, they need support and understanding to maximise their

chances of gaining maximum quality of life. We ask for your support in

encouraging brain injury survivors to complete this survey, to make the

findings as hard-hitting as possible. The deadline for completed surveys is

21 January 2008, after which we will be analysing results and releasing the

findings in a media campaign.

Headway groups will receive the following materials to support their

activities during Action for Brain Injury Week:

25 January 2008 – campaign toolkit, comprising:

* supplies of posters, featuring real brain injury survivors who have

achieved amazing things against the odds

* template news release to give media forward notice of the results of the

survey

* checklist for running a media open day, including ideas for replicating

the effects of brain injury for journalists to experience

* PowerPoint presentation on brain injury and its effects for use with range

of audiences, from schools to local workplaces

* Advice on key messages and working with local case studies to gain media

coverage

10 March 2008 – Embargoed news release with results of survey findings

If anything is unclear, do please let us know. Meanwhile, have a very happy

and peaceful Christmas.

With best wishes,

Elaine

Elaine Finch

Director of Communications

Headway – the brain injury association

London Office

Nelson Hospital

Kingston Road

London

SW20 8DB

T: 020 8545 9646

M: 07912 843467

E: directorofcomms@headway.org.uk

Helpline: 0808 800 22 44

www.headway.org.uk

Please support the BBC Radio 4 Appeal for Headway! Tune into David Tennant

on Radio 4 on Sunday 23 December at 7.55am or 9.26pm and help make a

difference to the lives of brain injury survivors.

This is an email from Headway – the brain injury association. The contents

of this email are confidential to the ordinary user of the email address to

which it is addressed. No-one else may place any reliance on it, or copy or

forward all or any of it in any form.

Headway – the brain injury association is a Registered Charity No 1025852

and a company limited by guarantee Registered in England No. 2346893

Online Petition for the East Sussex ABIC Post

marksearle — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:57:56 +0000

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.

petition.DOC

UKABIF Newsletter Autumn 2007

marksearle — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:54:47 +0000

ukabif-autumn-07.doc

Our NHS, Our Future

marksearle — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:20:51 +0000

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

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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