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Health

Rushcliffe CVS currently works in partnership with Nottinghamshire County NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust and Principia with their patient and public involvement work.

The new Prinicipa Rushcliffe Health Network aims to engage and bring together individuals and organisations from all sectors concerned with health in Rushcliffe to provide a forum/ voice for the community of Rushcliffe to have a say in their health, health needs and how their health service works. The Principia Rushcliffe Health Network also includes the following forums and groups:

Rushcliffe Diabetes Forum, Rushcliffe Cancer Forum, Rushcliffe 50+ Forum Health Sub-Group, Mental Health Group

There are many ways for you to get involved, to have your say and make a difference on health issues in Rushcliffe:

Visit the Principia website to look at current news, health reports and other projects being developed within Rushcliffe
Attend Principia Rushcliffe Health Network/ Forum meetings
Send comments / views to us via email, post or telephone
Take part in patient surveys
Join a practice patient participation group

For more information about any of the above, please contact our Development Worker,

Sue Knowles at Rushcliffe CVS on 0115 9816988 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Health Networks and Forums

Rushcliffe Diabetes Forum

This group meets every 2 months and membership consists of staff from the Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, patient representative, Diabetes UK representatives, a member of the Patient Reference Group and Rushcliffe CVS.

The Forum has 2 main functions:

provides information on aspects of diabetes
to inform service development

The members have contributed to the development work of the Diabetes Pathway and have ideas for further meetings which include topics such as:

medication
test results and what they indicate

Rushcliffe Cancer Forum

This group meets every 2 months and membership consists of staff from the Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, patient representatives, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Trent Crossroads, Dove Cottage Hospice, Rushcliffe CVS and a member of the Patient Reference Group.

Cancer Forum members attend various strategic committee meetings and the group are in the process of developing a Rushcliffe Cancer Information Booklet.

Rushcliffe 50+ Forum Health Sub Group

This group meets every 2 months and membership consists of staff from the Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, members of the Rushcliffe 50+ Forum who have an interest in health and invited agencies working with older people. Over the last year the group have been consulted and made comments on:

proposed closure of care homes
a draft leaflet to be given to patients at the time of assessment with regard to Funding of Continuing Care for people who require long term care
survey of patients/ carers experience at Lings Bar Hospital

A message from a new stroke group

Hello, we are a newly formed stroke group at the Rushcliffe Resource Centre in West Bridgford . We're called "Different Strokes" and currently have a membership of 5. We aim to increase stroke awareness through social interaction and various activities both at the unit and in the community. We hope this will lead to increased networking and access to facilities that are available.

For more information, please contact Win Bedward, Promoting Independence Work at the Day and Community Support Service BGR on 0115 9232353