T3SC - Tameside 3rd Sector Coalition

Get involved

LINk logo Part of our role as a LINk is to help people in Tameside to have a say about how health and social care support is planned. This page provides Internet links to other organisations’ consultations and other activities that we’re aware of. These are not LINk consultations but if you’re interested in the topic, why not get involved?

If you do take part in these consultations and activities please let us know – this will help us to get an idea of what topics people are most interested in.

Government consultation – The Future of Social Care

Calling all Foundation Trust members for Arts Consultation: Want a say about how your new hospital will look inside?

Calling all Foundation Trust members for Arts Consultation: Want a say about how your new hospital will look inside?

If so come to an Arts Consultation event on 23 February 11am until 1pm in Werneth House, opposite A and E at Tameside Hospital.

You will have the opportunity to comment about what art you would like to see in your local hospital, what you think represents your local town, if would you like to see performances/live music on the hospital site and anything else arty.

There will also be the chance to see a DVD preview of the new hospital building and to join the Foundation Trust membership if you are not already a member. Please contact the membership office on 0161-922-4157 or via membership@tgh.nhs.uk for further information.

Government consultation – The Future of Social Care

On 14 July 2009 the Government published a Green Paper called 'Shaping The Future of Care Together.'
Shaping the future of social care 'Shaping the Future of Care Together' set out a vision for a new care and support system. Their aim is to develop a National Care Service that is fair, simple and affordable for everyone. It set out a number of questions and asked everyone to provide their views about how they think the Government can make this vision a reality.

The LINk did a survey of local people and groups to put a response together. This was done by postal questionnaire and discussion at local group meetings. There were 235 replies to the questionnaire. The main points raised include:

The proposed National Care Service could provide good support for people who need it.
Access to information and advice; choice between good quality services and services that help people to remain more independent as they get older (or become disabled) are more important than having a national assessment.
People made a range of suggestions about how services can be improved.
People recognised that some things that already happen in Tameside will help with this, they also suggested things that might make the changes difficult to achieve.
The focus for any care service must be on how it helps each individual person – not on how well it meets national targets.
People who have paid National Insurance throughout their adult lives feel that the current charging system is unfair and are worried that the proposals might make this even worse.

There’s more information about the Green Paper at: http://careandsupport.direct.gov.uk/

You can see our response at Tameside LINk - Green Paper response

We will be publishing a fuller analysis of our questionnaire data in the new year.