LINks and their contact details
There are 9 LINKs in the East of England and their contact details are listed below:
NORFOLK LINk
Host Organisation: Voluntary Norfolk
Postal Address: 83-87 Pottergate, Norwich NR2 1DZ
Telephone: 01603 883860
Email: linksinfo@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk
www.norfolklink.org
SUFFOLK LINk
Host Organisation: Shaw Trust
Shaw Trust, Room 18
Red Gables, Ipswich Road
Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1BE
Telephone: 01449 771246
E-mail: info@suffolklink.org
http://www.suffolklink.org.uk/Home/tabid/2385/Default.aspx
CAMBRIDGESHIRE LINk
Host Organisation: Cambridgeshire Acre
Postal Address: 5 Crown Street, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 5EB
Telephone: 0300 365 1245
Email: office@cambridgeshirelink.org.uk
www.cambridgeshirelink.org.uk/
ESSEX & SOUTHEND LINk
Host Organisation: CEMVO
Chelmsford Office
1 Bond Street
Chelmsford
Essex CM1 1GD
Telephone: 01245 490733
http://www.essexandsouthendlink.org.uk/
THURROCK LINk
Host Organisation: Council for Ethnic Minorities Voluntary Organisations (CEMVO)
12c Queensgate Centre
Orsett Road
GRAYS
RM17 5DF
Phone 01375 378 578
Fax 01375 386 571
Email: office@thurrocklink.org
http://thurrocklink.org/
PETERBOROUGH LINk
Host Organisation: Shaw Trust
Carol Leadbetter
Community Development Officer
Telephone: 01522 705190
Email: carol.leadbetter@shaw-trust.org.uk
BEDFORDSHIRE LINk
Host Organisation: Voluntary Action Luton
15 New Bedford Road
Luton
LU1 1SA
Telephone: 01582 733418
F: 01582 733013
Email: beds-links@valuton.org.uk
http://www.bedfordshirelink.org.uk/BedsLINk/KMS/news.aspx
LUTON LINk
Host Organisation: Shaw Trust
3rd Floor, Cresta House
Alma Street
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 2PU
01582 748575
07590 231676
Email: luton.link@shaw-trust.org.uk
http://www.communityvoicesonline.org/LINks/home.aspx?id=46
HERTFORDSHIRE LINk
Host Organisation: Shaw Trust
Foundation House
2 - 4 Forum Place
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL10 0RN
01707 275978
http://www.communityvoicesonline.org/LINKs/home.aspx?id=6
LINKs Regional Projects
There are two LINKs regional projects:
LINKs sitting on the NHS East of England's (Strategic Health Authority) Clinical Programme Boards
In early 2009 LINks began to consider the request from the NHS East of England for people involved in LINks to sit on their 10 Clinical Programme Boards. Having written to all the LINKs and received majority support for this request, people were invited to express an interest in one of the 10 Boards. These expressions are currently being looked at and people will be placed on to the Boards in the near future.
Once people have been allocated to the Clinical Programme Boards there will be mechanisms in place to ensure they are supported in their new roles and are connected to all LINKs across the East of England.
View the role description here for the LINks representatives
LINKS regional collaborative working proposal
Each LINk is a stand-alone organisation but in the Eastern Region it is recognised that commissioning and the provision of health and social care services crosses all the local authority boundaries on which the LINks are based. People involved with LINks are aware of a range of cross boarder and regionally commissioned services and consider formal rather than informal collaboration might be a more effective way of working to achieve:
- Improved communications between LINks about cross border and regional issues
- Avoid duplication and use information effectively
- Enhanced service user, patient and public influence on regional decisions and commissioning
A small working group of people involved in LINks from across the East of England are currently discussing the possibilities of this idea with the Department of Health Social Care and Local Partnerships team at GO East.