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Health and Social Care Network
Wales Council For Voluntary Action has 80 National Voluntary Organisations that are members of the Health and Social Care Network.
The Health and Social Care Network was established in June 2001. Previously it had been known as the Social Care Network but the nature of the difficulty to distinguish between health and social care led to an integrated Network. The Network incorporates a range of Organisations that are condition specific, or address the needs of different client groups.
The Health & Social Care Network:
- Provide a focus for exchange of information and experience
- Act as a liaison point with the relevant Assembly Ministers and committees
- Exchange information on policy developments
- Provide representation of members’ generic views to Assembly and other relevant committees, working parties and groups.
- Represent voluntary sector health and social care interests and concerns in relation to the Assembly’s Voluntary Sector Scheme, including the identification of issues and representatives for the twice-yearly meetings with Assembly Ministers.
The Network will meet four times a year and be facilitated by WCVA.
For further details on the Network, please contact Sarah Timmis, Health and Social Care Facilitator on stimmis@wcva.org.uk
- Agenda, minutes and papers available on request.
Ministerial Meetings
Members of the Network are representatives of the voluntary sector at the Ministerial Meetings.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s Voluntary Sector Scheme makes provision for twice yearly meetings between representatives of the relevant voluntary sector networks and each of the Cabinet Ministers covering their areas of responsibility.
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List of Organisations
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Wales Neurological Alliance
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The Wales Neurological Alliance was set up in 2002 to meet the challenges of a changing institutional and political structure in Wales post devolution. Membership has grown to include 24 voluntary organisations representing over 100,000 people and their families affected by a neurological condition living in Wales.
Contact the Alliance:
Miss Buddug Williams (secretary)
c/o 206b Neuadd Meirionydd
Heath Park
Cardiff
CF14 4XN
Tel:02920687646
Email: williamsbg@cf.ac.uk
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Aims
The aims of the Wales Neurological Alliance are to:
- Raise awareness of neurological conditions and their impact on individuals and society
- Inform and influence policy makers in Wales about the needs of people with neurological conditions
- Secure improved services and care for people with a neurological condition living in Wales
- Promote the dissemination of information about neurological conditions
- Support and promote appropriate research
Objectives
The objectives of the Wales Neurological Alliance are to:
- Ensure that people have significantly improved access to expert diagnostic services
- Ensure good quality access to local treatment, support, care and rehabilitation
- Improve availability of information, advice and services at a local level
- Promote a clear data gathering exercise of the prevalence of neurological conditions
- Support the development of audit and research
Structure and Organisation of the Alliance
Initially the Alliance was set up as an informal network of organisations, with no formal constitution and with no dedicated or paid personnel. The activities of the Alliance were dependent on the contribution in time of individual members, made in addition to their work/volunteering for their own organisations. Many successes were achieved in this way, but in 2006 it was decided that in order to make further progress a more structured organisation was required.
A small grant had been received from the Welsh Assembly Government and most of this money was used to engage the services of a part time co-ordinator during 2007. The co-ordinator facilitated a survey of members which identified the need to:
- Formalise the structure of the Alliance through the establishment of an Executive Committee
- Become a registered charity to secure sustainable funding
- Carry out a mapping exercise of neurological services and service user experience across Wales
- Benchmark these findings demographically with other areas of the UK
- Disseminate information to the Welsh Assembly Government, local health and social care policy makers, professional organisations, service users and carers to improve service delivery and access to information.
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Alliance Recources:
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