Vote NOW! Three clicks of your mouse can really make a difference!
Please find the link below to the K&C LINk application for a ‘Bright Ideas Grant.’
Background:
We are hoping to secure £2,750.00 in additional funding to support our ‘dignity champions’ programme. This training and awareness raising programme will benefit all our sub-groups – disability, mental health, older people and cancer. We also hope to use the funding to target some of the ‘easy to ignore’ groups in the borough including people experiencing domestic violence, homeless people and ex-offenders.
The success of our application depends purely on us being one of the top scoring ideas on the site on Thursday. Voting closes at 12pm this Thursday, March 18th. We reckon that based on current voting we need approx 200 votes at five stars to secure the funding.
How to vote:
1) Please click on http://big.dh.gov.uk/node/248 or copy and paste this address in to your web browser
2) Anyone & everyone can vote by scrolling to the bottom of this page and under ‘Add your rating’ please click on the appropriate rating twice e.g. five stars if you think this is an excellent idea. (hopefully you do as you all helped to design it) Please note that you may need to click the star twice so that it reads e.g. ‘you rated this idea 5 star’ under the stars. This is confirmation that your vote has worked.
There is no need to register/log-in unless you want to leave a supportive comment.
All support would be very much appreciated. Three clicks of a mouse can really make a difference to this project and to the ability of LINk members to shape the services we receive!
Feel free to re-post this web address on your Facebook, Twitter pages etc.
Have your Say! LINk Membership Survey - complete by 23rd April
Tell us what you think of K&C LINk!
We would like you to take this opportunity to tell us what we are doing right, and what we can improve! Please take a few minutes to complete the K&C LINk Membership survey so we can find out your experience and views of being a LINk member.
There are only 10 questions and an optional equalities data page. Feedback from this survey will be used to make recommendations for changes within your LINk.
Please click on Kensington & Chelsea LINk Survey to complete the survey.
Adding Insult to Injury
'A number of the NHS/Foundation Trusts in or availed of by Kensington & Chelsea are failing to implement Patient Safety Alerts according to a new report released by Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA). The report "Adding Insult to Injury - NHS failure to implement patient safety alerts" is based on a Freedom of Information request the charity made to the Department of Health, which manages the Central Alert System (CAS).
When the NPSA issues an alert (which is only done after thorough research and consultation that the issues are serious and the recommended actions urgent in the interest of safety), NHS bodies have to report to the CAS when the recommended actions have been completed. Compliance with implementing the alerts within a given deadline is one of the top "core standards" which all NHS trusts in England are supposed to meet.
The research revealed that there is no system inplace for monitoring compliance. AvMA point out that failure to implement the alerts or to intervene where necessary is putting lives at risk, and adding insult to injury for injured patients and those who have lost loved ones due to lapses in patient safety. Chief executive Peter Walsh said: "It is this kind of complacency that could allow another Stafford to happen".' (source: AvMA)
The report found that K&C related Trusts still have a number of alerts to implement, including:
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with 10 alerts
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust with 9 alerts
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust with 8 alerts
- Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust with 7 alerts
You can view the full report at: http://www.avma.org.uk/data/files/patient_safety_alerts__full_report.pdf
Details of the alerts are listed from page 24 of the document
Tell K&C LINk about your experiences and/or get involved to make a difference, contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or leave a comment on this blog post.
18th March, Older People Sub-Group Public Meeting
Please be reminded that the next K&C LINk Older People’s Sub-Group meeting will take place on Thursday March 18th.
The details for the meeting are:
Date: Thursday 18 March 2010
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Location: The Essex Unitarian Church
112 Palace Gardens Terrace
Notting Hill Gate, W8 4RT
Guests: Ms Helen Cylwik, Project Manager – Care of the Elderly, NHS K&C on Practice
Based Commissioning (PBC) and Older People's Services. And
Mr Peter McDonnell, Commissioning Manager, Royal Borough of Kensington
& Chelsea (RBKC) on “Commissioning Older People’s Service”
You can download a copy of the agenda and directions to the meeting.
