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Monday 18 November 2013

The Future for Heath in Sidmouth: event Tuesday 26th November: press release and poster

The Vision Group's Futures Forum will be hosting a meeting next Tuesday on the theme of healthcare provision.


Tuesday 26th November: 3.15-5.15pm: 
The Future for Health in Sidmouth: a round table meeting with local healthcare professionals, including:
>  the Health Centre’s Patients Participation Group, 
> the Hospital’s Comforts Fund, 
> the NHS Locality Health & Well-being Board and 
> the Dementia-friendly Communities campaign. 
Free entry. Refreshments available. All Welcome. 
Upstairs at the Anchor Inn, Fore St. 
Organised by the Futures Forum of the Vision Group for Sidmouth.

Press release and poster below.
More details to follow...


The Future for Health in Sidmouth?

Like it or not, major changes are underway in health provision throughout England and Wales, and also locally here in Sidmouth.

The Vision Group for Sidmouth is responding to the demand for local citizens to get involved in implementing these changes. The Group’s Futures Forum is hosting a round table discussion upstairs at the Anchor in Old Fore Street at 3.15 pm on Tuesday 26th November. Local health leaders are grappling with a range of questions, including:

> What do the NHS reforms mean for this locality?
> What are the plans for the Sid Valley Practice’s new surgery?
> How can we care for a growing population of frail citizens?
> How will the upgrades help Sidmouth hospital?
> What is the role of Patient Participation Groups?
> How can we help Sidmouth become a more ‘dementia-friendly’ town?

“We are fortunate that our own NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) places a high value on consultation with patients and practitioners” says Robert Crick, Chair of the Futures Forum, who has represented East Devon at two meetings between the CCG and the Devon community during the past year. 

“While exciting new developments are in hand for Sidmouth, there is a fair amount of anxiety among health practitioners about the wider context of what the Daily Telegraph has described as ‘the April 1st revolution’. 65 years after the founding of the NHS these major recent reforms are complicated but this does not mean we can ignore them.

“We hope that people of all ages will bring their own questions to this meeting where we will be fortunate enough to have a range of experts and health professionals to advise on what is planned and what we can do about it.”

Futures Forum
Vision Group for Sidmouth

November 2013

The meeting will be in the form of a 'round table' to encourage exchange and debate:


The Vision Group for Sidmouth’s Futures Forum  invites you to an OPEN meeting on
TUESDAY 26TH NOVMBER
at 3.15PM at THE ANCHOR INN, FORE ST to discuss
‘The Future for Health in Sidmouth’
JOIN A ROUND-TABLE OF
HEALTH –CARE PROFESSIONALS
Should Sidmouth be a Dementia Friendly town?
How will the upgrades help the Hospital?
What are the plans for the new Practice? 
What do the NHS reforms mean?

....ALL WELCOME....  
....REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE....

See: Vision Group for Sidmouth - The Future for Health in Sidmouth
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