Hertsmere Commissioning News

Dated: 2-Apr-12

IF YOU ARE A PATIENT REGISTERED AT THIS PRACTICE, WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HELP HERTSMERE COMMISSIONING LOCALITY TO SPEND NHS MONEY WISELY ON THE SERVICES THAT YOU NEED.

Who are Hertsmere Commissioning Locality?
Hertsmere Commissioning Locality are responsible for designing
and purchasing health services that best meet the needs of the
people of Hertsmere. Our purpose is to make sure that patients in
Hertsmere can access the best possible health care. We are one of
the 4 West Herts localities in Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning
Group.

We commission on behalf of
Annandale Surgery
Fairbrook Medical Centre
Highview Medical Centre
Little Bushey Surgery
Parkfield Medical Centre
Schopwick Surgery
The Grove Medical Centre
Theobald Medical Centre

How can you help?
There are three ways that you can get involved:

• 1. We have set up a Hertsmere Commissioning Patient and Public Involvement group. At the moment the group meets for a couple of hours in the evening once a month.
  The group is quite small but we would like more people to get involved. You do not have to be ill or a regular user of health services. We need people with all sorts of skills to get involved. For example we welcome people who are prepared to read information, people who can understand data, people who are prepared to contribute to committees and people who are just passionate about improving health services.
• 2. We would like to develop a bank of people that we can call on who have experience of using health services for long term conditions. This would mean you registering with us (we would simply need a contact address or e mail address and details of which services you regularly use). By doing this we will be able to ask people who actually use services about their experiences when we are evaluating or reviewing those services.
• 3. We would like people who are genuinely interested in their local health services to register as public members with us. We don’t really expect you to do anything other than give us your contact details and then we will keep you informed periodically about our work. If at some point in the future you think you would like to be more involved then you can and that would be great.

If you would like to contribute to Hertsmere Commissioning Locality as a member of the Patient and Public Involvement group, as a member of our People Bank or as a Public Member please visit our
website www.hertsmereppi.co.uk and follow the links to contact us.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. We hope you will feel able to
get involved so that together we can make a real difference.

Dr Nicolas Small
Chair
Hertsmere Commissioning Locality