What is the Suffolk LINk?
Once established, the new Suffolk LINk will be a network of local
people, organisations and groups that will influence health and
social care services. The new Suffolk LINk will be expected to
represent everyone and will also work with health and social care
professionals to make sure local people have a strong voice in how
services are planned and run. We want to tell you about the plans
for the new Suffolk LINk so that you can influence how it will work
and what it will do.
What will the Suffolk LINk do?
- Give everyone the chance to say what they think about their
local health and social care services – what’s working well and
what’s not.
- Give people the chance to check how health and social care
services are planned and run.
- Feedback what people have said about services so that things
can change for the better.
How are we setting up the new Suffolk LINk?
We held elections in January for a Project Group to help set up the
Suffolk LINk. This group will act as the interim Suffolk LINk
until a network of local people, organisations and groups have
joined together to form the new Suffolk LINk. Together with Suffolk
County Council, they will encourage as many people, groups and
organisations as possible to join the LINk. They will talk to
people and groups in the community to work out how LINk activities
can be carried out and how the new Suffolk LINk can be set
up.
More about the Suffolk LINk
Useful web links
On 8 August 2007, the
Department of Health issued two publications aimed at helping
both the NHS and local authorities prepare for the replacement of
patient forums with LINks in 2008:
They also published the below 'easy-read' booklet: