Events and Meetings
Coming Up
There are no events planned at the moment.
Completed Events and Meetings
A number of events and involvement sessions have taken place to give people the chance to have a say on the trust’s plans.
Clinicians
A total of 70 doctors and other healthcare professionals attended a special event on June 6, 2007 to discuss how the trust will build the new inpatient units and the way in which staff will work in them.
Following a series of presentations from the trust's executive team, delegates split up into eight discussion groups, facilitated by clinicians, to consider a number of important questions.
For a full report of the clinicians' event click here
Service users
A similar event took place on June 13, 2007 for people who use mental health services, their carers, voluntary organisations, prospective Foundation Trust members and young people from The Junction, the trust's recently opened inpatient unit for young people.
For a full report of the service users' event click here
The following is a list of meetings between the trust, PCTs and borough councils throughout Lancashire. The purpose of these meetings was for the trust to explain what it is doing to seek the views of the people who use its services, carers, other stakeholders and members of the public on possible sites for the new inpatient units.
| Wednesday, October 3 | Blackpool PCT and Borough Council, and North Lancashire PCT |
| Friday, October 5 | Chief Executives from all PCTs in Lancashire |
| Monday, October 8 | Blackburn with Darwen PCT and Borough Council |
| Monday, October 15 | Lancashire County Council (all members). All Lancashire MPs invited |
| Tuesday, October 16 | East Lancashire PCT and Borough councillors |
| Tuesday, October 23 | Central Lancashire PCT and Borough Council |
Site selection public meetings
These open public meetings, gave people the opportunity to ask questions of the trust's executive team and have their say about where the four new inpatient units should be built.
Schedule of public meetings
| Monday, October 29 | The Globe Centre, Accrington |
| Wednesday, November 7 | Town Hall, Lancaster |
| Wednesday, November 14 | Winter Gardens, Blackpool |
| Tuesday, November 20 | Next Generation Club, Chorley |
Please note: there were two sessions at each event: 3.00pm to 5.00pm and 5.30pm to 7.30pm to enable as many people as possible to attend.
To read more about these events click here.
To take part in a Virtual Public Meeting, click here.
Once the preferred sites had been identified, the Trust Board was keen to meet with residents living nearby. The meetings were held as follows:
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 | for residents living near to Whyndyke Farm |
| Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | for residents living near to Ribbleton Hospital |
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 | for residents living near to Royal Albert Fields |
The presentations delivered at the meetings and transcripts can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
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