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How often do you use your local pub, village shop, post office, library?
How important are they to you and your community?
Due to changes in our lifestyle habits, the increase in out of town superstores and reductions in public sector funding - how confident can we be that these services will survive? Is it important? And do we need to take action to ensure that they are still here in 5 or 10 years time?
Join the Leicestershire Rural Partnership to explore these dilemmas and consider what communities and partners can do to reverse the downward trend of village services. Speakers include the Plunkett Foundation, Pub is the Hub and Leicestershire County Council library service. More »
The date: Thursday 27th September
The time: 9:00 – 12:00 (8:30 for coffee and croissants)
The venue: Snibston Discovery Centre
Please reserve your place with kate.harvey@leics.gov.uk, 0116 3057016 » Less
East Midlands Ambulance Service would like to extend a warm invitation to you to attend the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Community Engagement Event on Monday, 10 September 2012. The Event will be held at Leicester City Football Club, King Power Stadium, Filbert Way, Leicester, LE2 7FL between 09:30 and 13:30 hours. It will be an opportunity to understand what your ambulance service does every day, how we work now and how we know we need to work in the near future. Following this event East Midlands Ambulance Service will be holding the Annual General Meeting from 14:00 hours where you will hear from Jon Towler, Chairman and Phil Milligan, CEO. Both events are free and open to the public – you are welcome to attend for all or part of the day. More »
The Community Engagement Event will focus on the division which covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. There will be presentations, discussion sessions, opportunities for mini health checks, new ambulance vehicles showing our level of resource and real life stories from the heroes at the frontline of our organisation delivering care, first on scene, every day.
A buffet lunch will be provided. Places are limited, so please RSVP by Friday 31 August 2012 and outline any disability, dietary or special requirements.
If you are interested in attending or would like more details please contact Gulnaz Katchi on 0116 286 9378, gulnaz.katchi@emas.nhs.uk or Kay Smith on 0115 884 5002, kay.smith@emas.nhs.uk. » Less
The government is changing many parts of health and social care services in England. One of these changes is to have new bodies called Healthwatch set up in each area of the country. This is a requirement of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Some existing arrangements for involvement, known as Local Involvement Networks (LINks), will come to an end in April 2013. Healthwatch will then take over.
Healthwatch will work alongside some other services which allow people to get involved; some of these existing services may need to change as Healthwatch develops. More »
Healthwatch Leicestershire is being set up to give local people an effective voice in the health and social services in the county. We want you to tell us what you think about the County Council’s proposals for Healthwatch Leicestershire. We want to hear from local people, patients, users of care services and local groups or organisations.
For more information on Healthwatch visit: Healthwatch Policy
The consultation will take place between 1 August and 19 September 2012. You can:
Complete the paper questionnaire (see attached below) and send it back to us at: Room 300b, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA
Complete the questionnaire on-line at: Healthwatch Leicestershire
Attend one of these drop-in-sessions:
1.30pm to 3.30pm on 29th August 2012 at Moira Centre, Moira Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1AX
4pm to 6pm on 3rd September 2012 at Basset Centre, Basset Street, Wigston, Leicestershire, LE18 4PE
2pm to 4pm on 4th September 2012 at George Ward Centre, Church Lane, Barwell, Leicestershire, LE9 8DG
For further information on the survey, or to request an alternative format, contact: Surinder.Peberdy@leics.gov.uk or call 0116 3059381 » Less
Leicestershire is a beautiful rural county, scattered with villages of all sizes providing a mix of services to a mix of communities. Due to changes in our lifestyle habits, the increase in out of town superstores and reductions in public sector funding - how confident can we be that these services will survive? Is it important? And do we need to take action to ensure that they are still here in 5 or 10 years time?
Join the Leicestershire Rural Partnership to explore these dilemmas and consider what communities and partners can do to reverse the downward trend of village services. More »
The date: Thursday 27th September
The time: 9:00 – 12:00 (8:30 for coffee and croissants)
The venue: Snibston Discovery Centre
Please e-mail kate.harvey@leics.gov.uk if you are interested and joining instructions will follow nearer the time. » Less
