Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales
ACHCEW
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PPI IN THE NHS
ABOUT ACHCEW
History of the NHS
>
Historical Publications
NHS Consultants' Association
The Peckham Experiment
How ACHCEW Worked
Who's Who
>
Toby Harris
A celebration - Michael English
In Memory of Mike Gerrard
>
A Stifled Voice - Book Launch
In Memory of Murray Benham
In Memory of Bill Marks
In Memory of Tony Smythe
ACHCEW - Bless you!
The Legal Position
>
THE ORIGIN
THE OBJECTIVES
Constitution - Standing Orders
Communications
Legal Advice and Procedures
Parliament - Acts-Bills-Briefings
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ACHCEW Briefing Papers re. NHS Community Care Bill ...
CHCs (Access to Information) Act 1988
Statutory Instruments - Regulations
ACHCEW Training Pack
Official Papers
>
Abolition of CHCs and ACHCEW - 2003
Creation of CPPIH
DH + Social Security - Appendices
Forum Support Organisations + Patients' Forums
Guidance - Governance Documents
Termination Documents
Transition from CHCs to Patients' Forums
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CVS
Private Eye
The National Plan
The Commission - ACHCEW
>
Correspondence - Interim Report
Publication
CASUALTY WATCH - History
>
Casualty Watch - STEERING GROUP
Casualty Watch - PAPERS
Casualty Watch - MONTHLY RESULT
Casualty Watch - CHC REPORTS
Press Cuttings
COMMITTEES
Annual Reports
AGM / Conferences - Correspondence, Papers, Minutes
Officers' Meetings
Standing Committee
>
Standing Committee Members
Standing Committee News
Transition Advisory Board - TAB
FINAL Meeting - 08 July 2003
CHCs
Introduction to CHCs
CHC Regulations
How CHCs Worked
Code of Conduct for CHC Members
Code of Practice on Consultation
Public Activities Material
CHCs in Action - (Publication)
The Politics of Consumer Representation - A Study of CHCs
The Legal History of CHCs
Legal - re. Closures
Directory of CHCs + LINks
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Brighton and District CHC
Brent CHC
Bristol CHC
Central + South Birmingham CHC
City and Hackney CHC
Croydon CHC
Greater London Association of CHCs - GLACHC
Haringey CHC
Islington CHC
Mid-Staffs CHC
SW Hertfordshire CHC
Southwark CHC
Wakefield CHC
Training and Skills for Members
>
Skills for New CHC Members
Understanding the NHS and the Role of the CHC
Developing Skills as a CHC Member
Links to CHCs and Charities Database
Skills for CHC Chairs
Other Training Documents
PPI Short Courses
>
Introduction and Surveys
Core 1 - User Involvement in Health and Social Care
Core 2 - What does User Involvement Mean?
Core 3 - Feeling Empowered in User Involvement
Theme 1 - Involvement in Service Planning and Improvement
Theme 2 - Involvement in Research and Activity
General Units
Link Person Handbook
Papers
IN-HOUSE Staff Publications - Introduction
>
IN-HOUSE Publications - Listing
CHC Listings
CHC News
>
CHC News - 1-94 (1975-1984)
CHC News - 1-112 (1986-1996)
CHC News - 1-37 (1996-2000)
CHC Public Activities Materials
NHS Dispute - Complaint
Presentations
>
Presentations - PowerPoint
Presentations - Video
Foundation Trust Hospitals
GMC
Healthwatch England
Health Scrutiny
House of Commons Health Committee
ICAS
King's Fund
Normanton Hospital Inquiry
PALS
Local Involvement Networks - LINKs
PPI + LINks
>
PPI Academic
PPI in the NHS
>
The Effective PPI Forum - Guide
Patient Empowerment
>
Power to the People in South East Thames
Public Representation of Health Bodies
Women's Health Publications
>
Pennell Report on Women's Health (Publication)
Women's Health - Engaging Women
Enter and View
LINks Foundation Trusts
Kingston Hospital + Kingston PCT LINk
Public Involvement in the Private Finance Initiative
Response to the Health Committee Report
Private Hospitals
PUBLICATIONS
Publications - A
Publications - B
Publications - C
Publications - D-E-F-G
Publications - H-I-K-L-M
Publications - N-O-P-Q
Publications - R-S-T
Publications - U-V-W-Y
PRESS
ACHCEW's Press Releases
A&E + CASUALTYWATCH Press Cuttings
Cartoons
Gallery
Mass Lobby of Parliament
PHOTOS - Cafe Royal 08July2003
Publications - R - S - T
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Rationing Health Care - Should CHCs Help?
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April 1993 ... 6 pages
Reactions - A selection of responses to the proposed abolition of the Community Health Councils
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2 pages
Real Accountability - Demonstrating responsiveness and accountability -
Guidance on the NHS duty to report on consultation
Public & Patient Experience & Engagement, NHS - November 2009 ... 33 pages
Reconciliation of the Funding and Other Details in Lord Hunter's Reply to the House of Lords Debate
Donald Roy -
February 2003 - 1 page
Recording and Video Taping Patients' Consultations
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June 1998 ... 12 pages
Reference Manual for Public Involvement
- By: Jacqui Barker . Maxine Bullen . Jenny de Ville ... 81 pages
Reflecting the Public Interest - Focused, Professional: A Strategy for CHCs to plan their own future
... 34 pages
Reforming Emergency Care 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 - Streaming in Accident and Emergency Departments
7 pages
Report of the Review Working Party on CHCs
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South Western Regional Health Authority - May 1978 ... 10 pages
Representing the Consumer
- October 1989 ... 21 pages
Research Strategies for Consumer Empowerment of People with Severe Mental Illness
By: Charles A. Rapp - Wes Shera and Walter Kishardt - 1993 ... 8 pages
Response to the Government's White Paper - 'The Health of the Nation'
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October 1992 ... 5 pages
Review of LINk Southwark
- 2011 - 46 pages
RMI - Resource Management Initiatives - or - Rushed, Mismanaged and Inept
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August 1990 ... 22 pages
Rural Dispensing
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J
une 1996 ... 12 pages
Review of A&E Services in Calderdale - Calderdale CHC - October - November 2000
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13 pages
Self Reviews in CHCs
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July 1992 ... 11 pages
Staffing and Resources for CHCs
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March 1995 ... 28 pages
Study of Provision of Intensive Care in England - 1993
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January 1995 ... 67 pages
Survey of CHCs Relations with NHS Authorities - 1990
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October 1991 ... 41 pages
Survey of Expert Opinion on Health Policy
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1984 ... 10 pages
Survey of Regional Associations of CHCs - Undated
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7 pages
Table of Charities
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19 pages
Tax on Illness
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Antonia Ford, Philip Macleish and Marion Chester
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February 2002 ... 21 pages
Ten questions to ask if you are scrutinising arrangements to support effective Local Involvement Networks
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The Centre for Public Scrutiny - 11 pages
Ten questions to ask if you are scrutinising the effectiveness of your local hospital
The Centre for Public Scrutiny - 16
pages
The Abolition of CHCs - Consultation or Imposition?
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November 2000 - 5 pages
The Abolition of CHCs - Human Resources Framework
- DH - 31 January 2003 ... 18 pages
The Accountability of Fundholding
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November 1995 ... 28 pages
The Case for 'Patients' Councils'
- April 2002 ... 3 pages
The Consumers' View - Review of CHC Surveys on Outpatients Departments
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June 1986 ... 10 pages
T
he
Consumer Hits Back - re. the appointment of Tony Smythe as the new Secretary of ACHCEW
- taken from the Nursing Times, City Limits and the Health and Social Care Journal
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1983
The Costs of the New system of PPI in the NHS - A Review of the Evidence
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Donald Roy - May 2003
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5 pages
The Data Protection Act 1998
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March 1999 ... 8 pages
The Developing Role of Community Health Councils
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July 1992 ... 21 pages
The Financial Health of the NHS
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March 1996 ... 15 pages
'The focus is on patients' clinical needs and distress'
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Malcolm Alexander, Director, ACHCEW - 2003
The Future Establishing Arrangements for CHCs
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June 1995 ... 16 pages
The Future of NHS Complaints
- 3
8 pages
The Future Role of CHCs - Extracts from Hansard
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June 1990 ... 9 pages
The Health of the Nation
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December 1991 ... 15 pages
The Impact of CHCs on NHS Administrators
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By: Erica Bates . 35 pages
The Impact of General Management on the NHS
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March 1988 ... 16 pages
The Internal Market and NHS Finances
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September 1993 - 9 pages
The NHS Plan: Stifling the patients' voice?
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November 2000
The National Health Service - King's Fund Centre
- January 1974
The New NHS Complaints Procedure
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1996 ... 6 pages
The New NHS Complaints Procedure - Guidance Notes
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1996 ... 1 page
The NHS Today and Tomorrow - and The Future of CHCs
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1981 ... 2 pages
The Patient Will See You Now: Rebalancing relationships between people who use services and those who provide them.
Health Service Journal - 24 June 2010 - 13 pages
The Patients' Agenda - What the Patient's Charter Leaves Out
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November 1996 - 14 pages
The Patients' Charter
- NEWS BRIEFING -
November 1984 ... 4 pages
The Patient's Charter - Article for Agenda
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1995 - 25 pages
The
Patients' Charter - Guidelines for Good Practice
- 1986
The Patient's Charter - Past and Future
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Christine Farrell, Ros Leveson and Dawn Snape
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38 pages
- Appendix 1: Main Themes from the Literature Review
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12 pages
- Appendix 2: Interviews with Voluntary and Patients' Organisations and Representatives of Vulnerable
Groups
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10 pages
- Appendix 3: The Written Evidence
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18 pages
- Appendix 4: Focus Groups with Patients, Managers and Clinicians
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50 pages
- Appendix 5: Research Methods
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1
0 pages
The Patients' Charter - The Patients' Perspective
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NEWS BRIEFING -
September 1994 ... 24 pages
The Peckham Experiment
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By: Kenneth Barlow - 1985 ... 8 pages
The Peckham Health Centre, "PEP" and the Concept of General Practice during the 1930s and 1940s
By: Jane Lewis and Barbara Brookes ... 9 pages
The Problem with Referrals
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July 1999 ... 25 pages
The Provision of Core Services in the NHS
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18 pages
The Public and the NHS
- By: Christine Hogg -
1996 ... 46 pages
The Registration of Private Homes and Nursing Homes
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May 1986 ... 8 pages
The Role and Duties of Community Health Councils
- By: Marion Chester - October 1997
The State of Non Conventional Medicine
- 40 pages
The Start Up of LINks (Local Involvement Networks)
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2008 ... 41 pages
To CHCs who argue against an association, I say 'Watch and see what we do'
Mike Gerrard, ACHCEW - 22 September 1978
Tools for Participation: A briefing from the Centre for Participation
Towards a Statement of Objectives for CHCs and ACHCEW
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14 pages
Trumpet Voluntary - An Informal History of Central and South Birmingham CHCs - 1974 - 2003
David Spilsbury - June 2003
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ACHCEW
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PPI IN THE NHS
ABOUT ACHCEW
History of the NHS
>
Historical Publications
NHS Consultants' Association
The Peckham Experiment
How ACHCEW Worked
Who's Who
>
Toby Harris
A celebration - Michael English
In Memory of Mike Gerrard
>
A Stifled Voice - Book Launch
In Memory of Murray Benham
In Memory of Bill Marks
In Memory of Tony Smythe
ACHCEW - Bless you!
The Legal Position
>
THE ORIGIN
THE OBJECTIVES
Constitution - Standing Orders
Communications
Legal Advice and Procedures
Parliament - Acts-Bills-Briefings
>
ACHCEW Briefing Papers re. NHS Community Care Bill ...
CHCs (Access to Information) Act 1988
Statutory Instruments - Regulations
ACHCEW Training Pack
Official Papers
>
Abolition of CHCs and ACHCEW - 2003
Creation of CPPIH
DH + Social Security - Appendices
Forum Support Organisations + Patients' Forums
Guidance - Governance Documents
Termination Documents
Transition from CHCs to Patients' Forums
>
CVS
Private Eye
The National Plan
The Commission - ACHCEW
>
Correspondence - Interim Report
Publication
CASUALTY WATCH - History
>
Casualty Watch - STEERING GROUP
Casualty Watch - PAPERS
Casualty Watch - MONTHLY RESULT
Casualty Watch - CHC REPORTS
Press Cuttings
COMMITTEES
Annual Reports
AGM / Conferences - Correspondence, Papers, Minutes
Officers' Meetings
Standing Committee
>
Standing Committee Members
Standing Committee News
Transition Advisory Board - TAB
FINAL Meeting - 08 July 2003
CHCs
Introduction to CHCs
CHC Regulations
How CHCs Worked
Code of Conduct for CHC Members
Code of Practice on Consultation
Public Activities Material
CHCs in Action - (Publication)
The Politics of Consumer Representation - A Study of CHCs
The Legal History of CHCs
Legal - re. Closures
Directory of CHCs + LINks
>
Brighton and District CHC
Brent CHC
Bristol CHC
Central + South Birmingham CHC
City and Hackney CHC
Croydon CHC
Greater London Association of CHCs - GLACHC
Haringey CHC
Islington CHC
Mid-Staffs CHC
SW Hertfordshire CHC
Southwark CHC
Wakefield CHC
Training and Skills for Members
>
Skills for New CHC Members
Understanding the NHS and the Role of the CHC
Developing Skills as a CHC Member
Links to CHCs and Charities Database
Skills for CHC Chairs
Other Training Documents
PPI Short Courses
>
Introduction and Surveys
Core 1 - User Involvement in Health and Social Care
Core 2 - What does User Involvement Mean?
Core 3 - Feeling Empowered in User Involvement
Theme 1 - Involvement in Service Planning and Improvement
Theme 2 - Involvement in Research and Activity
General Units
Link Person Handbook
Papers
IN-HOUSE Staff Publications - Introduction
>
IN-HOUSE Publications - Listing
CHC Listings
CHC News
>
CHC News - 1-94 (1975-1984)
CHC News - 1-112 (1986-1996)
CHC News - 1-37 (1996-2000)
CHC Public Activities Materials
NHS Dispute - Complaint
Presentations
>
Presentations - PowerPoint
Presentations - Video
Foundation Trust Hospitals
GMC
Healthwatch England
Health Scrutiny
House of Commons Health Committee
ICAS
King's Fund
Normanton Hospital Inquiry
PALS
Local Involvement Networks - LINKs
PPI + LINks
>
PPI Academic
PPI in the NHS
>
The Effective PPI Forum - Guide
Patient Empowerment
>
Power to the People in South East Thames
Public Representation of Health Bodies
Women's Health Publications
>
Pennell Report on Women's Health (Publication)
Women's Health - Engaging Women
Enter and View
LINks Foundation Trusts
Kingston Hospital + Kingston PCT LINk
Public Involvement in the Private Finance Initiative
Response to the Health Committee Report
Private Hospitals
PUBLICATIONS
Publications - A
Publications - B
Publications - C
Publications - D-E-F-G
Publications - H-I-K-L-M
Publications - N-O-P-Q
Publications - R-S-T
Publications - U-V-W-Y
PRESS
ACHCEW's Press Releases
A&E + CASUALTYWATCH Press Cuttings
Cartoons
Gallery
Mass Lobby of Parliament
PHOTOS - Cafe Royal 08July2003