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Patient representative for Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group
The Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group (HFCCG) is inviting applications from local patients to join its board.
The role of the Patient Representative is to ensure that the CCG takes into account the views of local patients and the public in its planning and decision-making processes.  
To be eligible, patients must be registered with a GP practice in Hammersmith and Fulham.
If you are interested and feel you can commit at least 4 hours of your time every fortnight, please complete the application form outlining how you meet the Role Description.  Short listed members will be contacted in early December and invited to attend an interview on 14th December 2011.

Please click here for the role description
Please click here for the application

Please return the application form via the H&F LINk office before 5pm on December 2nd 2011:
Address: H&F LINk, Unit 25, The Shaftesbury Centre, 85 Barbly Road, W10 6BN
Email: hflink@hestia.org  Tel: 020 8969 4852

The Medicine directorate are looking for volunteers to join their Patient Panel/User Groups. This is a group made up of members of the public who regularly use our services and visit our hospitals. The role of the group would be to assist with voluntary tasks that help to improve the patient experience at the Trust. The patient panel gets involved in individual projects such as:

  • Reviewing patient information
  • Encouraging patients to complete patient surveys
  • Helping to improve patient discharge procedures with the aim of improving the patient experience within the Trust. 

As part of the role it is expected you attend the regular Patient Panel User Group meetings on a bi-monthly basis. If you are interested in getting involved please contact Laura Newman on 020 8383 3303.

The Trust is also looking to improve and revise the pre-op assessment, day case and inpatient Tobacco Control Initiative (TCI) letters to patients with the intention of making them clearer to the public. If you are interested in reviewing these letters and providing comments to the Trust about how they can be improved please contact Laura Brown by email laura.brown@imperial.nhs.uk