Health Care and Wellbeing e-newsletter for April 2009

10 questions on Eye Health and Setting Up LINks

Two more Ten Questions Guides have been added to the series this month
‘10 questions to ask if you are scrutinizing local eye health provision’ and ‘10 questions to ask when scrutinizing arrangements to support effective Local Involvement Networks’  

Ambulance Service Commends Joint Scrutiny.

 Joint committee chair Cllr Andrew  Gravells, receives unexpected recognition from Great Western Ambulance.

'Better Together' Creating Community Cohesion

Andrew Lawrence, the South West Regional Health Scrutiny Advocate for the CfPS has put together for the Department of Health and the Institute of Community Cohesion a guide for people in the NHS on how to help build more cohesive communities.

Health Care and Wellbeing Scrutiny Programme News

The Expert Advisory Team:  this year, 10 days free expert advisory support will be offered to OSCs in each  of the 10 strategic health authority areas. Placements will support OSCs working together on common issues across whole regions or in sub-regions. 

Care Quality Commission live on 1st April 

Two articles in Society Guardian give indication of the approach of the new independent regulator .

Health Select Committee Update

On 24th April the Select Committee on Health begins evidence gathering on Alcohol.

Department of Health Web highlights

Annual Conference - Register now 

See the full published programme including Health Scrutiny Workshops on tackling Health Inequalities

CfPS publications specifically for Health and Social Care  

As well as the two new 10 questions guides, the full range of Health Care and Wellbeing Scrutiny publications can be found by following this link.

 'Excess Winter Mortality' 

As well as Gloucestershire's review linking winter mortality with hard to heat homes, three others were published this month on aspects of stroke care and prevention, and the quality of care homes. Please add your completed reviews to our comprehensive archive of reviews across the country.

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