LINk Commissioning Meeting

Notes of a meeting held between the Acting Chair of Portsmouth Link and Innes Richens, N.H.S. Portsmouth on 3 May 2012 re. Commissioning  Matters.Dr Jim Hogan lead G.P.Commissioner was unable to attend.

Matters discussed;-

A number of issues keep arising without resolution.

Time availability at G.P.surgeries for patients with several health problems

Collection of data from Patient Reference Groups at G.P.’s surgeries. This is already happening in Southampton

Booking hospital appointments on-line at G.P.’s surgeries

The patient Voice  - Websites, Blogs, Questionnaires, Meetings.

Joined up thinking related to hospital discharge/transfer of care.

The need to ‘target’

Telephone conversations/recorded messages for the elderly/deaf

It was agreed to look particularly, as a start, at the amount of time allocated for consultations at G.P.’s surgeries and information related to Hospital Discharge and Transfer of Care.