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Are NHS and social care services ‘breaking’? How can the local Integrated Care System fix things to shape the future? Will there be real health and care benefits ‘on the ground’ for our community?
Join us to hear from Kate Calvert, a senior officer of the NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board with responsibility for community and primary care. You can ask questions, make suggestions and share your wishes and needs. Many of the pieces for an integrated care system already exist, but not yet well tied together as people experience them.
The meeting is planned as a public conversation about services. In the words of its Chair, the Integrated Care Board “will listen to people and communities … see things from their perspective, and co-design the services that people really need.” So will we see simplification, more integration and greater accountability, with clear pathways of care, not a quagmire? This is our chance to be heard and to understand the system better.
Kate will be assisted by Dr Forbes Watson in his capacity as Chair of the Dorset GP Alliance, but the event will deal with matters far wider than GP provision, covering many aspects of non-hospital care from cradle to grave, community and mental health services, social care, public health, voluntary services, etc.
Kate will welcome people’s ideas in advance, so that she can share what really matters to us. Please email your thoughts and questions, no later than Wednesday 14 June, to: lymebayppg@gmail.com, with the subject line ‘20th June’, or drop a note into the red ‘Messages for the PPG’ box in the entrance to Lyme Regis Medical Centre or Charmouth surgery.
The meeting is arranged by the Patient Participation Group of Lyme Bay Medical Practice, but is open to anyone interested, wherever you may be registered with a GP. It will be chaired by Ken Lavery, local resident, retired surgeon, and chairman of the Lyme Regis RNLI Supporters.
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