Reminder: Your Health & Social Care Steering Group needs you

Could you help steer the relationship between the VCS and the new landscape in health & social care?

The East Midlands Health & Social Care Network is the primary mechanism for local VCS groups to keep up to date, influence policy and decision making and share best practice in the field of health and social care. In the last year this network has enabled:

• co-production with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) over key aspects of personalisation
• activities to encourage VCS engagement with emerging HealthWatch organisations
• tools to support local VCS influence with Clinical Commissioning Groups
• information sharing to support influence of Health & Wellbeing Boards

Over the next year we would like to focus our work on:

• building stronger relationships between the VCS and public health,
• supporting the VCS to demonstrate how much money they SAVE the NHS,
• support VCS representation and influence of Health & Wellbeing Boards and
• support the voice of young people in the new health and social care landscape.

To do this well we need active and broad expertise from across this fast growing network to help steer our approach and ensure VCS benefit.

On behalf of the East Midlands Health and Social Care network, we are currently inviting nominations for new members to join the network steering group. Please see attached the nomination form and terms of reference. Nominations are being sought from members of the network and must be VCS organisations only.

If you would like to nominate yourself or a member of your team for this position, please complete and return the nomination form by Friday 26 July. 

Completed nomination forms should be sent to office@one-em.org.uk or by post to Sandra Casey, One East Midlands, 7 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FB.  If more than one nomination is received, a ballot will take place.

Members of the Health and Social Care network steering group lead and co-ordinate the work of the Health and Social Care Network, to ensure that it functions effectively and to review its progress.

As a minimum the nominee should be committed to attending bi-monthly meetings of the steering group (six meetings a year). Venues for the meetings are rotated around the region.

Current steering group members