Local residents to have their say on community health services

11 August 2010

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is hosting a number of events across the county to talk about developing health services in the community and making the best use of our community hospitals.

In April 2010 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust integrated with Community Health Buckinghamshire. This means that a majority of hospital and community healthcare for residents in Buckinghamshire is provided by one organisation.

Anne Eden, Chief Executive, said, “Bringing health services together provides us with a great opportunity to look at how we can improve the patient journey and progress with national initiatives such as bringing our care closer to your home. We can’t do this on our own so will be talking to our staff, GPs and local residents to help us with our plans.”

A number of community sessions will be held across the county on the following dates/times: 

Marlow/Bourne End:
Thursday 2 September, 2pm - 3:30pm
Thursday 9 September, 6pm - 7:30pm

Buckingham/Winslow:
Tuesday 24 August, 6pm - 7:30pm
Monday 6 September, 1pm - 2:30pm

Amersham/Chesham:
Monday 23 August, 6pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday 8 September, 11am - 12:30pm

Chalfonts:
Monday 23 August, 2pm - 3:30pm
Wednesday 8 September, 6pm - 7:30pm

Thame:  
Wednesday 25 August, 10am - 11:30am
Monday 6 September, 6pm - 7:30pm

The aim of these events is to provide an update on current progress with integration, share our vision for the future and to seek views on how we can provide more healthcare services in the community. We want to find out what is important to our patients and how we can make the best use of our community hospitals, ensuring they are an integral part of the communities they serve.

For more information or to book a place on any of the sessions, please RSVP to communications@buckshosp.nhs.uk or by calling 01494 734959.

ENDS.

Notes to editors:

• Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust provide a wide range of high quality acute and community services from three acute hospital sites in Amersham, Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe, five community hospitals at Thame, Marlow, Buckingham, Chalfonts and Gerrards Cross and Waterside, and a number of community sites across the county. Details of these can be found here: http://www.buckinghamshirehospitals.nhs.uk/community-health-services.htm,

• Specialist services include our regional dermatology, allergy and skin cancer centre, burns care and plastics sub-regional centre, cardiac services and the National Spinal Injuries Centre

• More than 6,000 staff serve residents across Buckinghamshire, Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire) - a combined population of 500,000. It serves a much larger population, 1.5m, for burns and plastic services and 14m for spinal injuries

• On 1 April 2010 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust became the new partner to Community Health Buckinghamshire

For further information, contact the communications team on 01494 734959 or at communications@buckshosp.nhs.uk.