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This is the latest Annual Review of the Council's activities, and covers the period April 2005 to March 2006. We hope you find it informative.
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and Role of New Patient and Client Council Northern Health and Social Services Council members joined colleagues from the other three Health and Social Services Councils to consider how best the new Patient and Client Council could meet the needs of the population. Noel Graham and Richard Dixon, Chief Officers from the Northern and Eastern Health and Social Services Councils opened the Conference by providing a short history of HSSCs from their establishment in 1991. David Finnegan from the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) followed by giving an overview of the outcome of the Review of Public Administration which proposed that the four HSSCs be replaced by a powerful single health and social care user’s body called a Patient and Client Council (PCC). The PCC model within the new health and personal social services structures was outlined by Noel McCann also from the DHSSPS and during a panel discussion delegates heard views on the current role HSSCs and what the future role of the new PCC might include from a voluntary, a statutory and a service user perspective. The workshops that followed gave delegates the opportunity to examine and discuss appropriate PCC models.
Health
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One of the Workshops facilitated by the NHSSC |
