Patient and Public Involvement

How to 'Get Involved'

There are many ways in which members of the public, patients and the carers can ‘get involved’ to shape local health services. These include:

• Joining a patient, user or carer group at a local hospital or GP practice or wherever patients receive a service
• Becoming a patient representative on a specific service working group e.g. Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease
• Joining the Local Involvement Network (LINk) or a local Community Group
• Become a volunteer in a local hospital or clinic
• Finding out more about the Expert Patient Programme which aims to help people living with chronic illness
• Completing a survey to tell us your views
• Commenting on public consultations

If you would like to know more about how you can ‘Get Involved’, please write to:

Becky Parish,
Assistant Director,
Patient and Community Involvement,
NHS Gloucestershire

Freepost:
RRZE – ZASK – RRXC,
Sanger House,
5220 Valiant Court,
Gloucester Business Park,
Gloucester, GL3 4FE.

or you can telephone Becky Parish or Caroline Smith (Community Involvement Manager) on 08454 221515,

or email: becky.parish@glos.nhs.uk or caroline.smith3@glos.nhs.uk