Your Health Care in Local Hands
New local support has been found for Solihull Local Involvement Network (LINk). Solihull Council has awarded the 12 month contract for supporting the LINk to the Solihull Independent Living Consortium, (also known as SILC, for short). SILC is a recently formed partnership of local charities involved in providing health and social care services to Solihull people. SILC’s membership includes local not for profit organisations providing support for groups such as older people, carers, disabled people and people with learning disabilities.
Solihull LINk is a network of individuals and local voluntary groups, whose aim is to find out the views of local people on health and social care services, and to make recommendations to improve services. Recent Solihull LINk projects have included surveys on personal budgets for social care, GP out of hours services, and maternity services. Solihull LINk staff and volunteers are now working with the local NHS and Council to bring about service improvements.
Anne Hastings, Chief Executive Officer of Age UK Solihull, and a member of SILC commented:"This is a great opportunity for local organisations that have a working knowledge of the needs of the area to really engage with the general public and help them make a difference to services."
Solihull LINk would like to hear from more local people and voluntary groups. They are inviting you to sign up now to receive information on consultations and to express your views, or to become a Solihull LINk volunteer. There is also a vacancy on the Management Committee for a new voluntary sector group.
If you would like to find out more, please contact Catherine Gulati on 0121 705 0550
or email: catherine@solihulllink.org.uk
The organisations that form SILC are; Enable-Solihull, Solihull Life Opportunities, Age UK Solihull, Solihull DIAL, Solihull Care Ltd, Solihull Carers Centre, Family Care Trust and SWICDA (Solihull Workforce in Care Development Association).