Your NHS Community Services in Southern Devon – Please tell us what you think
The clinical commissioning groups in Southern Devon are developing the community health services available to our local population. These services are provided by Torbay and Southern Devon Care Trust. In order to tell the Care Trust what services we need, we would like to ask you what is important to you. It would help us greatly if you could take a few minutes to tell us what services you use, what you think of them and what matters to you.
There are two questionnaires; one for individuals to answer on behalf of themselves or someone they care for and another for organisational representatives to answer. We are keen to gather the important views of people who use health services, their carers or families and the people who support them in the community.
The questionnaires ask what services people seek out when they need them, how they value those services and what they think of the quality of other supporting services in the community.
The questionnaires are available at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Community_Services_INDIVIDUAL_survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Community_Services_ORGANISATION_Survey
Paper questionnaires can be obtained from:
Community Services Questionnaire
FREEPOST (Jo Curtis)
RRLE-KHTU-ZGEU
Torbay Care Trust
Bay House
Nicholson Road
Torquay
TQ2 7TD
01626 3570263
Jo.curtis@nhs.net
In order for your voice to be heard, please complete and submit your survey by 16 December 2011.
Results of the survey will be published on this website in January 2012 or can be obtained via the above address.
Many thanks for your valuable contribution.
Local Council Budget Cuts: What do You think?
As local authorities prepare to enter the second year of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review and with an overall reduction of 28% in funding for local government over the next four years. Torbay Council is asking local taxpayers where they think service cuts should be made.
The proposed savings can be viewed at www.torbay.gov.uk/budgetnewsletter-oct11.doc
The Council will be consulting on these proposals over the next 3 months before final decisions are made. Members of the Public will have the opportunity to respond in a number of ways.
Public evening meetings - completed
Public daytime events in the form of the council’s consultation caravan will be at the following places;
Tuesday 13 December: Union Street Torquay 10.30am to 3.30pm
Questionnaires will be available on the Torbay Council website (shortly) and will also be available through libraries and Connections Offices. If residents do not wish to fill in the formal questionnaire, ideas and comments on the budget can also be sent to consultation@torbay.gov.uk .
The council will also be running a special budget viewpoint consultation . Viewpoint is a 1000 strong residents’ research panel statistically representative of the population of Torbay , which acts as a statistically reliable thermometer of their thinking.
The council website we will also be running a budget simulator which allows members of the public to ‘balance’ their own council budget and consider where they would make savings.
The council is aware that there will be some proposals which will create wide interest and some which may have an impact on specific groups.
For what happens next see www.torbay.gov.uk/budgettimetable.pdf