Bury Local Involvement Network believes that being treated with Dignity and Respect is a basic human right – Not an Optional Extra.

 

If you have had an experience of care services, we need your feedback

 

“Our aim is to give the people of Bury the opportunity to comment on the way care and treatment has been given to them recently, find out the good practice areas of care and also the ones that need improvement. We will then take our findings and feed this information back to the public and the care organisations involved.

 

We are doing this with our Listening Events. We will shortly be announcing a range of dates and venues where people can come and share their stories and experiences with us to help us work with our providers to improve their services.

 

 

Bury LINks Homelessness Forum will provide an opportunity for agencies and individuals who work in the industry. Graham Evans has a good understanding and experience of, homelessness to get together to share information, develop best practice and become better informed about current policy developments in Bury.

 

This group will meet four times a year. Our meetings are open to both statutory and voluntary sector agencies and will normally consist of presentations from members and outside agencies followed by 'question and answer' sessions. Between meetings members receive regular e-news-bulletins to keep them up-to-date with sector news, and we occasionally hold additional sessions (eg. workshops, briefings, or working group meetings where members get together to take forward work on issues of shared interest).

 

 

Bury LINk is a independent statutory body which gives power to Bury residents and service users to influence the planning, commissioning, and delivery of all local NHS and adult social care services, and monitor their quality and effectiveness.

 

Bury LINk’s Chair said “Bury LINk wants the widest possible participation and representation from local residents and health and social care users, and community and voluntary organisations.”

Bury LINk will negotiate with the NHS and Bury Council to improve services that don’t meet local needs. The LINk will also report to the public both where services are doing well and, if they fail to meet expectations, will publish its recommendations to the NHS and Bury Council.

 

Local people, service users, and organisations wishing to give their views about the quality of our health and social care provision; or interested in becoming Bury LINk members, should contact Sue Williams on Telephone: 0161 253 6300 or > email 

 

The >> Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust serves the communities of Bury, North Manchester,
Rochdale and Oldham, along with the surrounding towns and villages like Rossendale. With a population of over 800,000. It is one of the countrys largest Hospital Trust. Its main commissioners are NHS Bury, NHS Heywood, Middleton and
Rochdale, NHS Oldham and NHS Manchester.

The Trust provides Accident and Emergency; Diagnostics; Medicine; Surgery;
Specialist Services (HIV/ AIDS) and Women and Children’s services and operates
from five sites:

• Fairfield General Hospital, Bury; >> (find it)
  
• North Manchester General Hospital; >> (find it)
  
• Royal Oldham Hospital; >> (find it)
  
• Rochdale Infirmary >> (find it)
  
• Birch Hill Hospital >> (find it)
  

 

 

 

In this section, you’ll find information about some of the most common >> mental health conditions, as well as some of the >> ways they can be treated.

 

You can also find out about two pieces of legislation (law) that can directly affect people with mental health issues, the >> Mental Health Act and the >> Mental Capacity Act.

 

LINks are interested in hearing from services users, carers and professionals on matters relating to mental health services being delivered within Bury.  At Bury LINk, our mental health lead is keen to understand and share experiences, at the same time as pursuing improvements to mental health care services and support within Bury

 

From time to time we are all asked to get involved in both local, regional and national consultations, as chair of Bury LINk I recently reflected on the joys, delights and benefits of living in a liberal democracy and, in particular, the way we individually can influence the way we are governed if we care. People often say a government of the people for the people by the people is not possible. Well it is but only if we all get involved.

Public consultation should always be seen as a good thing. Anything that engages the governed in the governing process must be a good thing. Whether public consultation makes a real difference is down to us all, not having your voice heard only weakens the public voice as a whole.

Over the years I have responded to a few local consultations like Healthy Futures, Making it Better, the recent Blue Badge consultations, I often think are we being listen to. The answer is we are, but to make a real difference we need more people to get involved. Do we really want a small handful of people deciding what is good for us? For me NO and I hope for many other NO so when we are asked to become involved in consultation please help the LINk make a difference and let us hear from you.