Wider voluntary and statutory sector development

LTCA’s Associates

• Action against Medical Accidents
• Age Concern England
• Bradford Alliance on Community Care (BACC)
• Cultivations
• Genetic Interest Group
• Involve
• Patient Information Forum (PiF)
• Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists
• Specialised Healthcare Alliance
• The MedicAlert Foundation
• The Neurological Alliance
• The Positive Place
• The Prince’s Foundation for
• Integrated Health
• Westminster PCT
• Your Choice

The Alliance has been involved with its members in many national projects about the changing role of the voluntary sector. These include the National Strategic Partnership Forum (working to ensure that the voluntary, community and public sectors deliver responsive high-quality health and adult social care services to patients, service users and carers) and the National Consumer Council’s Public Service Users Forum, established to develop models for involving users and strengthening the consumer voice, which will hopefully continue (albeit under a different name) when the new National Council starts in October 2008. We have also been represented on the Health and Social Care Reform Advisory Group, the National Stakeholder Council for Health, Work and Wellbeing, and the Medicines Information Project Board.

LTCA sought to influence the Government to take a more systematic approach to its own involvement activities – as national Government suggested local statutory organisations should be doing. The Department of Health has established a National Stakeholder Forum, in which the Secretary of State and ministers will talk to leading representatives of service users, providers and commissioners, and service staff organisations. David Pink represents the interests of people with long-term conditions on this new group.