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What is your Wigan Borough LINk?
(Local Involvement Network)

Woman and girlLocal Involvement Networks or LINks were set up by the Government in April 2008 to give local people a stronger voice in how their health and social care services are delivered. A LINk is an independent network of local people and groups, whose responsibility is to find out what people want from their health and social care services.
 
Every local authority has a LINk organisation managed by local groups and individuals who decide what their priorities are and how they will work. To help them with this, each LINk has a “Host” organisation to support them in their work. The Host must be an independent, not for profit organisation.

Health and Care Together is an independent organisation that has the power to make sure that changes happen to improve health and social care services in the Wigan Borough.

 

Host Organisation

Host organisation - Black Health Agency

The Black Health Agency is the host organisation that supports the Wigan Borough LINk in a number of ways.

  • Telling the community about the LINk, what it is doing and how to get involved.
     
  • Providing office support and helping the LINk to develop clear systems.
     
  • Holding the LINk's budget and recording what the LINk does.
     
  • Helping find out local people's views.
Health and Care Together

Health & Care Together

Heath and Care Together
is the name for the Wigan Borough LINk.

We are an independent organisation, run by volunteers and voluntary organisations, that has the power to make changes to improve the health and social care services thoughout the Wigan Borough.

Local councils have been given money to fund LINks, but each LINk decides how best to operate and what priorities to concentrate on.

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Department of Health

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Local Invovement Networks are a Department of Health initiative.

For more information please visit the following link.
www.direct.gov.uk/localinvolvementnetworks

Irene Yates (Chair) meets Andy Burnham, Health Secretary

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