Patient/Public Involvement

HCL and Patient and Public Involvement

HCL has a genuine desire to make sure that the decisions it takes about the provision of services to the people of Hertsmere are decisions based on good evidence of what works and which match the priorities of our population. The only way we can ensure that this happens is to make sure that we provide a voice for local people and ways of making sure that voices can influence decision making.

We are in the process of establishing three ways for local people to get involved:

1. We have already set up a Hertsmere Commissioning Ltd Patient and Public Involvement group.

At the moment the group is meeting for a couple of hours in the evening once a month. The group is quite small but we would like more people to get involved. People do not have to be ill or a regular user of health services to be a member. We need people with all sorts of skills to get involved. For example we welcome people who are prepared to read information, people who can understand data, people who are prepared to contribute to committees and people who are just passionate about improving services. More . . .

2. We intend to develop a bank of people that we can call on who have experience of using health services for long term conditions. More . . .

3. We would like people who are genuinely interested in their local health services to register as public members with us. We don’t really expect them to do anything other than give us their contact details but we will keep them informed periodically about our work.

HCL PPI Group (Patient/Public Involvement)

• Sept 22 (Potters Bar)
• Oct 19
• Nov 16
• Dec 15

Useful External Links

LINks  - Local Involvement Networks  (LINks) are a network local people, organisations and groups from across the community that want to make care services better.