LINks (Local Involvement Networks) give you the opportunity to influence local health and social care in services. LINks have been set up in every local authority to make sure that people in that area get the health and social care services they need. Anyone can get involved.
Gateshead LINk wants to hear about your experiences of health and social care services and your ideas for improvements or changes. Gateshead LINk can help bring about changes - whether they are big or small.
Gateshead LINk is made up of individuals and community groups who work together to improve local health and social care. The job of Gateshead LINk is to find out what people like and dislike about local services, and work with the people who plan and run them to make them better.
LINks also have powers to help them do their job and make sure that changes happen. The more people get involved in Gateshead LINk, the stronger and more influential it becomes.
Gateshead LINk is FREE and open to everyone. Join us and you will be part of an independent network that gives everyone a voice about health and adult social care in Gateshead.
Gateshead LINk is actively looking to improve services in the following areas
You can participate in the LINk as much or as little as you wish, from receiving information regularly, taking part in a survey or being involved in various working Groups.
Call us and speak to the Gateshead LINk team on 0191 47874103.
You can also email on enquiries@gatesheadlink.org.uk
Alternatively you may like to download and fill in our Link membership Form.
Download the registration form here
It’s up to individuals to decide how and when they want to be involved. You can get involved in a way that suits you.
LINks are designed to be as open and accessible as possible, so we have developed a range of ways to get involved.
Regardless of your age, background or situation, the LINk wants to hear from you. There are lots of different ways you can do this. You can talk to someone, attend a meeting or fill in a questionnaire / or have your say on our interactive blog
Each LINk has powers to:
The LINk can make recommendations so that things can change for the better
LINk - Steering Group
Open to Gateshead LINk elected Steering Group and members of the public as observers
Thursday 4th February 2010
10am-1pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Thursday 1st April 2010
10am-1pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Thursday 6th May 2010
10am-1pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Thursday 3rd June 2010
10am-1pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
LINk - Carers' Working Group
Open to all
Tuesday 26th January 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 9th March 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 20th April 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 8th June 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 20th July 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 7th September 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
LINk - Mental Health Working Group
Open to All
Monday 25th January 2010
1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Monday 8th March 2010
1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Monday 19th April 2010
1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Monday 7th June 2010
1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Monday 19th July 2010
1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Monday 6th September
2010 1.00pm-3.00pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
LINk - Residential Care Working Groups
Open to All
Wednesday 3rd February 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Wednesday 17th March 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Wednesday 28th April 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Wednesday 16th June 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Wednesday 28th July 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Wednesday 15th September 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
LINk - Hospital Discharge Procedures
Open to All
Tuesday 5th January 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 16th February 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 30th March 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 18th May 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 29th June 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
Tuesday 10th August 2010
10.30am-12.30pm GVOC, 8/9 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead NE8 4DY
People who use health and social care services, their carers and the public generally, have expectations about the experience they want to have of those services and want the opportunity to express their view as to whether their expectations were met.
There will be times when it is helpful for authorised LINk representatives to observe the delivery of services and for them to collect the views of people whilst they are directly using those services.
LINks may, in certain circumstances, enter health and social care premises to observe and assess the nature and quality of services and obtain the views of the people using those services.
LINks’ role is not to seek out faults with local services, but to consider the standard and provision of care services and how they may be improved.
Certain individuals can be authorised to enter, view and observe health and social care activities being carried out – these individuals are referred to as ‘authorised representatives’.
An authorised representative must :
Below is a list of places a LINk has a statutory right to enter and view
BY METRO
The nearest metro station to GVOC is the main Gateshead stop. Exit the Gateshead Interchange onto "High West Street" and walk away from the shopping area around 400m to the Durham Road Baptist Church. Landmarks that you pass on the way should be the police station on the left and the Swallow Hotel on the right.
BY BUS
GVOC is serviced by many main bus routes into the centre of Gateshead. The stop directly outside the building is the 'Durham Road slip road', next to the Swallow Hotel. If you are travelling from further away, the best option is to use the main Gateshead Interchange stop and follow the directions for 'By Metro' from there.
BY CAR
Parking is available in the surrounding streets, especially Granville Street. There is also a car park in Gladstone Terrace which is inexpensive.
Gateshead LINk,
FREEPOST NEA3819,
John Haswell House,
Gladstone Tce,
Gateshead,
NE8 1BR
Call us on
Phone : 0191 4784103
Txt : 07913004737
Fax : 08707058702
E-mail us at
gatesheadlink@gvoc.org.uk
LINk Host Staff
Julie Whitehouse
Gateshead LINk Co-ordinator –
juliewhitehouse@gvoc.org.uk
Kim Newton
Gateshead LINk Communications and Engagement Officer –
kimnewton@gvoc.org.uk
Angie Maidment
Gateshead LINk Administrator –
angelamaidment@gvoc.org.uk
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Gateshead LINk at GVOC
John Haswell House 8-9 Gladstone Terrace Gateshead NE8 4DY
Write: FREEPOST Gateshead LINk
Tel: 0191 4784103
Fax: 08707058702