Link Legacy Report

This is the story and impact of the Slough Local Involvement Network (LINk). It captures the benefits, learning and achievements that the LINk will pass on when it ceases to exist as a staturory network in April 2013. The report is part of the handover to the new consumer champion Healthwatch Slough. It captures key lessons for the future and knowledge of local people who have been involved in the LINk at all levels

NHS Dentist patient information

Berkshire Local Involvement Networks (LINks) Report Reviewing Information for NHS Dental Patients 2012.  We understand that this report will go the next Dental Commissioning Group Meeting on 20th March 2013.  Following that meeting we very much look forward to the NHS Berkshire formal response to the recommendations made within the report.

Patient access to GP appointments

Sensory needs services in Slough

What you think of Personal budgets...

Stakholder Review

Re-audit of protected meal times

As part of the Community Chest 2012, Thames Valley Positive Support report on the sexual health of over 50's in Slough

Slough LINk have conducted ward visits over a number of months in order to evaluate protected meal times and patient nutrition. The report contains findings, recommendations for improvement and other patient feedback around general care issues.

Slough LINk have conducted a survey for recipients of Personal Care Budgets in Slough, following the a similar survey conducted in 2010. This year's survey asked more questions and received far more responses. The findings have provided some areas for the council to consider. More work will be conducted in 2012 to imporve the support for those receiving Personal Budgets as a result of this report

Means of Development and Survival "Childcare Needs and Family Wellbeing"

As part of the Community Chest Fund residents that lived in a local refuge were involved in some reserch that offers insight into the relationship between the victims of domestic abuse and the health support they have accessed, if any. It also provides us with a greater understanding of victims’ experiences when taking children to medical services.

Alzheimers Cafe Consultation Report

The Slough Link, over the summer of 2010, have received a number of comments and queries about self directed support in Slough.  In order to try and understand the impact that personal budgets were having the LINk conducted a personal budget survey on services users undertaking the pilot scheme in Slough.  The survey was designed to gauge what changes or influences personal budgets had on service user’s lives, choices and the care they received.

Investigating your concerns around;

1. GP Appointments
2. Surgery Accessibility
3. Patient Information

The aim of this study was to;

• Ensure that practice procedures and regulations were well communicated to patients
• Determine the accessibility of booking appointments in Slough
• Investigate any potential physical barriers to visiting a practice
• Determine whether patients believe their practice staff and doctors are professional, courteous and sympathetic to needs/concerns.

The Slough LINk have been supporting Slough Business and Community Partnership (SBCP), along with other partners, to undertake an initiative in Slough to promote health and well-being at work. Workplace well-being is especially important in a town that is home to Europe's largest trading estate, housing 400 companies that employ 17,000 people. As well as this Slough has a thriving commercial and retail hub outside its trading estate.

Since 2004 SBCP has worked with the Centre for Workforce Development at Thames Valley University on a number of occasions to raise the issues of work-based health with its members, with varying degrees of success.

Slough LINk Annual Report 2009/10

Effects of Khat on Somali men in Slough

Age Friendly Slough