Class 9. Public Involvement and Consultation

Class Description: Details of consultation procedures, decision-making processes, timescales and responses. Consultations in progress and how you can become involved. (Also see classes 6 and 8.)

Green Park Healthcare Trust consults service users on the following areas:

Major service developments Equality issues Patient satisfaction levels

The Trust has 9 committees on which service users are represented:

The Physical and Sensory Disability Group The Quality Management Committee The Wheelchair Users Forum The Prosthetics Users Forum The Neurology Patients Forum Care of Older People Patients Forum Project Board for the relocation of the Children's Respite Unit Regional Acquired Brain Injury Unit User Group Complaints Monitoring Group

In addition the Trust maintains a link with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the local community through membership of a local security forum.

The Friends of Musgrave Park Hospital and the Friends of Forster Green Hospital both advise and support the work of the Trust.

Patient Volunteers are always welcome and patients or carers wishing to volunteer to sit on a committee should make contact with:

Disability Advisor Green Park Healthcare Trust Musgrave Park Hospital Stockman’s Lane Belfast BT9 7JB Telephone: 028 9090 2000 Textphone: 028 9038 2008 Email: disability.advisor@greenpark.n-i.nhs.uk

The Trust advertises all public Trust Board Meetings in regional press titles and encourages the public to attend.