Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) plan and buy healthcare services for the local population in your area.

National funding is available from 2018 to improve access to GP services. This includes ensuring that everyone has more convenient access to GP services, including a mixture of same day and routine appointments on weekday evenings after 6.30pm, and at weekends based on local needs. This piece of work is known as ‘delivering extended access to GP services’.

As local CCGs we are currently considering how best to deliver extended access in your area so that it meets the needs of our population, is realistically deliverable within the budget we have been allocated to provide this additional service. There is a national and local shortage of GPs and other clinicians who work in general practice. This means that extended access services could be provided at a venue other than your own surgery and that you may not see your own GP or even a GP from your usual practice. Should that GP need to access your medical records, your consent will be sought when you book the appointment.

The CCGs would like to find out more about your views on extending access to GP services in the evenings and at weekends.

By completing the survey you have the opportunity to tell us:

• How likely you are to use GP appointments in the evenings and weekends.

• The kind of services you might want to use in the evenings and at weekends.

• Whether you would consider alternatives to face to face consultations.

The survey only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Here is the link:

http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExtendedAccessSurvey

If you have any queries regarding this survey please contact the Primary Care and Community Development Team at NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG/NHS Crawley CCG on 01293 600300 x4138 or send an email to: HSCCG.Primary-Care@nhs.net

Paper copies can be returned using the following freepost address:

FREEPOST RSZZ-YLJS-TETL,

Crawley CCG & Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG,

Crawley Hospital, West Green Drive, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 7DH

Hi

You may have noticed the roadworks in the village.

The Parish Council have managed to obtain a grant from WSCC to help alleviate flooding in the village, it won’t stop it all but it should help. This continued from a grant obtained previously.

Hopefully, if more grants are available and a case can successfully be made, further work can be carried out in the future.

Colin

It’s that time of year again when we ask for your help and full commitment with the annual canvass of electors. It’s a full canvass, so lots to do and again we are making it easier with an App on a simple hand held device. Please see the main points to be aware of below:

 Annual Electoral Canvass

• Full district-wide canvass – started during July we currently have an excellent return rate of over 63% with the first reminder stage commencing in a week’s time.
  
• All Mid Sussex properties to receive a Household Enquiry form (HEF)
  
• Residents must reply online or complete the paper HEF & return to ES within 28 days
  
• ‘Changes’ and ‘no-change’ can be notified online
  
• Text, telephone and internet reply channels for ‘no-change’ only
  
• Non-responder properties visited by Canvassers from Sept until mid Nov
  
• New 2017 Register to be published 1^st Dec 2017
  

Opportunity to help & earn Extra Cash

• An hourly rate of £9.10 per hour. For this, our expectation is for canvassers to complete at least 8 household enquires in an urban area per hour and 5 per hour in a rural area. Timesheets are required to be completed each time you canvass and submitted to us at the end of each working week via email.
  
• ES looking for Temp Electoral Canvassers – Please see all the background information here: http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/elections/annual-canvass/
  
• Full training will be given at the Council Offices, Oaklands, Haywards Heath to successful candidates.
• Canvassers will commence from 1^st September through until mid-November
  
• Canvassers will assist residents by completing HEFs with them online/offline using a smart device (tablet) – very quick and easy App
  
• Canvasser devices and Electoral database continually synced with secure data centre keeping canvass areas up to date
  
• Improved earning potential as assigned households are definite non-responders
  

I am very much looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Tom Hayes

Senior Democratic Services Officer – Electoral Services

01444 477417

www.midsussex.gov.uk

Local people are being asked to help shape how the County Council delivers adult social care in the future.

The council is considering a new approach where people, their families and carers can meet with council staff in local settings to discuss their social care needs. 

The council wants to:

• Talk to more people at an earlier stage and support them to stay as independent as possible
• Hold informal drop-in sessions in local communities, where people can talk to the county council about social care
• Help to connect people to services and activities in their local communities.

The proposals take account of what people have told the council about their experiences of using adult social care.

The new approach has been trialled in some areas of the county since January this year.

A survey is running until Friday 11 August for people to have their say: https://haveyoursay.westsussex.gov.uk/legal-democratic-services/supporting-lives-connecting-people.

The survey asks for people’s views on the proposals and asks what would be important to them if the council took this approach.

Louise Goldsmith, Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Adults, said: “We really hope to hear from as many people as possible who use our services, their families and carers, voluntary and community organisations, and all local people who have an interest in adult social care. We will then consider all the views before we decide on the way forward.”

A decision will be taken in the autumn by the Leader of the County Council about how adult social care will be delivered in the future.

Mid Sussex District Council is offering residents who respond to the annual electoral canvass by telephone, text message or online the chance to win one of three £50 Marks and Spencer vouchers.

Each year, everyone in the UK must confirm their electoral registration details are up-to-date by responding to the annual electoral canvass. Mid Sussex District Council will shortly be sending household enquiry forms to every household in the District and is encouraging local people to respond as soon as possible to avoid the need for any chase up correspondence.

The quickest and most convenient ways of responding to the annual electoral canvass are via telephone, text message or online. By using these digital channels, all information is processed instantly and effectively, there’s no chance of the form being lost in the post and it’s the most environmentally friendly way to respond. Contacting the Council in this way also provides taxpayers with huge savings when compared with the cost of posting back the form.

Mid Sussex District Council is encouraging everyone to respond to the canvass by using telephone, text message or the online form and those who do will be automatically entered into a free prize draw to win one of three £50 Marks and Spencer vouchers.

Tom Clark, Electoral Registration Officer for Mid Sussex said:

“We want to help the residents of Mid Sussex to have their say, maintain their credit rating and ensure they do not miss out on the opportunity to vote.

“By law, everybody must respond to the annual electoral canvass but how you respond is just as important. If you respond by telephone, text message or online then you’ll be helping to save taxpayers thousands of pounds. We want as many people as possible to contact us via these digital channels, so if you do, we’ll enter you into a free prize draw for the chance to win a £50 Marks and Spencer voucher.”

For more information about registering to vote or elections contact the Mid Sussex District Council Electoral Services team by emailing elections@midsussex.gov.uk or calling 01444 477003.