Are you passionate and enthusiastic about the future of your NHS and want to help us shape the future of services?

 We are currently seeking volunteers to play a key role in helping us shape the future of services for our local NHS.

 As a patient representative, service user, or carer your role will be to attend meetings and speak from a service user perspective, acting as a critical friend

Do you have an interest in one of the areas listed below:

We currently have volunteer positions for patient/user/carer representatives available in the following areas:
 Maternity services
 Paediatrics and Neonatal Care (a medical area that looks after unwell children and newborn babies)
 Planned Care (services and treatments that are arranged in advance such as a hip replacement at SWLEOC)
 Urgent and Emergency Care (e.g. A&E)
 Cancer services
 Mental health services
 Primary care (which includes GP and pharmacists)

What does the role involve?

Your role will be to attend meetings to bring in the voice and experience of patients/carers to discussions, acting as a critical friend.

Meetings will be held regularly and will usually take place in Wimbledon. Reasonable travel and alternative care expenses will be paid. We will support you to participate through: training; induction meetings and one to one support.

Interested? You can apply if you:
 live in south west London or Surrey Downs* or have experience/knowledge of using a service in these areas, and
 can commit to 2 hours a month to attend meetings (out of pocket expenses will be reimbursed); and
 are passionate and committed to improving the quality of care for patients across south west London and Surrey Downs*.
*Surrey Downs - (covers the boroughs of: Epsom and Ewell and Mole Valley, East Elmbridge and Banstead and the surrounding villages).

How to apply?

For more information or to request an information pack
please contact Clare Thomas – clare.thomas@swlondon.nhs.uk or phone 0203 458 5231

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 8th January 2016

*Surrey Downs covers the boroughs of Epsom and Ewell, Mole Valley, East Elmbridge, Banstead and the surrounding villages.

Call for volunteer patient, service user or carer representatives

Clare Thomas
Communications and Engagement Officer
South West London Collaborative Commissioning

Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England

¡®Working together to improve the quality of care in South West London¡¯
(: 020 3458 5231,  E-mail : clare.thomas@swlondon.nhs.uk

*: SWL Collaborative Commissioning

5th Floor
120 The Broadway
Wimbledon
SW19 1RH

www.swlccgs.nhs.uk