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We attend a huge number of meetings on your behalf, many of which are listed below. Around half of these are attended by our staff members but we wouldn’t be able to cover nearly as many without our valued directors and volunteers. If you’d like to get involved and attend similar meetings, please get in touch.
Key Strategy Meetings
- Health & Wellbeing Board
- Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee (HASC)
- Executive Partnership Board
- Aylesbury Vale Primary Care Joint Commissioning Committee
Local Meetings
- Adult Safeguarding Board
- Dignity in Care Strategy Group
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Development Group
- Bucks Healthcare Providers Communications Group
- Bucks Family Information Services Health Campaigns
- Transforming Care Partnership
- Local Account Development Group
- Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Steering Group
- Area Prescribing Committee
One-to-one meetings
We have a number of face-to-face meetings with key individuals:
- Buckinghamshire Council Head of Adult Social Care & Cabinet Member
- CEO Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Chair & Vice Chair of the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee (HASC)
Clinical Commissioning Group meetings
- Prevention & Supported Self Care Steering Group
- Quality and Performance Meeting
- Equalities Group
- Engagement Steering Group
Thames Valley Groups
- Public Involvement Group – Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust
- Thames Valley Local Eye Health Network
- Thames Valley Non Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) Contract Review Meeting
- Thames Valley Non Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) Quality Review Meeting
- Urgent & Emergency Care Network
- Area Pharmaceutical Committee
- Thames Valley Pharmacy Commissioning, Workforce and Education Strategy Committee
We’re also represented at the following meetings by other Local Healthwatch in the Thames Valley:
- Thames Valley Quality Surveillance Group (QSG)
- Thames Valley Priority Committee
- Thames Valley Patient Experience Oversight Group
Links with other Local Healthwatch
- East of England region
- Thames Valley sub-region
Work with Healthwatch England
We’re lending our experience and expertise to a number of national projects with Healthwatch England
- Intelligence and Information Management Reference Group
- CRM Stakeholder Group
- Communications Group
Recent reviews
Kingswood Surgery
1 star
6 days ago
Reception staff are unable to advise on how to obtain prescriptions or appointments. It truly is a shambles, and that's being polite.
My most basic suggestion would be to train your staff to be aware of policies and procedures, and to be consistent in the implementation of the above.
I find th ...
The Swan Practice (North End)
1 star
2 weeks ago
Getting through to speak to someone is hard enough, always a long wait, even though you are told in the automated message there are plenty of staff at busy periods. To make an appointment with your named doctor is usually over a month wait. reception staff very abrupt and on the verge of being r ...
Pound House Surgery (Bourne End & Wooburn Green Health Centre)
3 stars
3 weeks ago
Care great, once you can actually talk to a professional.
Appt booking system still a nightmare, long waits to even get into the phone queue. Called multiple times - listen to 2 mins of recorded messages - queue is full - call back later - repeat.
Finally into the queue, 20 min wait, then no a ...
Hughenden Valley Surgery
5 stars
1 month ago
Used the e-consult service for the first time on Friday. Posted my concern online at 9:30 (uploaded photos as this was a skin compliant), had a call back from the doctor at lunchtime the same day and had a prescription ready to pick up at 6pm. All very efficient.