Hertfordshire Community

n NHS Trust Your views Ê

Have you ever used the services we currently provide from

Tring Clinic?

Yes ☐ (if so how many times in the past 2 years ______) No ☐

If you answered yes, please state which service: Ê We’re planning

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Children’s eye care

Children’s Speech and Language ☐

Lymphoedema care ☐ changes to local

Please let us know to what extent you agree or disagree with the relocation of the service from Clinic to Ê

services

Gossoms End Clinic

We want to hear your views

Agree ☐ Disagree ☐ Don’t Know ☐

Please state your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with

the re-location of the service Ê

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Your contact details:

We welcome any other ideas and suggestions that you would

like us to consider regarding the proposed changes to services.

You can also complete this questionnaire online at Ê

www.hct.nhs.uk/get-involved/listening

Pop in for coffee and a chat

We’re holding a walk-in session at Tring Clinic to hear your

views about the proposed changes. Please come and share

your views over a coffee on Thursday 10 December 2015 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm Ê Closing date: 31 December 2015 Proud to Care Respect Quality Confidence Improve care for you About us Community NHS Trust - often referred to as HCT - provides Ê Children’s Speech and Language clinic

services across the county and in West Essex, making about 1.1 million Our clinics are held at Tring Clinic once a week on Thursdays. This service

contacts a year with service users. will continue to support children in school and will move clinic appointments

from Tring clinic to Gossoms End in . In addition, we will

We provide a wide range of care in people's homes, community settings

continue to hold drop-in session at Gossoms End once a month.

and in community hospitals. We employ around 3,000 members of staff

who are at the forefront of NHS care and support.

Lymphoedema Service Ê This service offers specialist advice, support and management for cancer

related lymphoedema and for those with complex oedema (fluid

Shaping Services for the Future

The NHS is expecting to see a dramatic increase in pressure from an retention) at end of life.

increasing population with people living longer with more complex

We hold a clinic every fortnight on a Thursday morning at Tring Clinic, as

conditions and Hertfordshire is no different. Our vision is to provide

well as clinics in Grovehill, . Our staff also provide care

accessible, responsive high quality and high value healthcare services to in community hospitals, hospices, nursing or residential homes or

all our residents. We will also work with local communities to reduce Ê patients’ own homes. We propose to move the clinic at Tring Clinic to

health inequalities and improve people’s health. To deliver this vision we Gossoms End in Berkhamsted.

need to make a range of changes, including moving some services and

improving the buildings we work from as well as increasing the support

we provide in people’s own homes.

Getting to Gossoms End

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Services we provide in Tring and our proposals Ê to G OS Tring SO Gra M We plan to move the services provided from Tring Clinic to more suitable nd S Un E

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work closer together benefitting patients and their parents). It will also R YD E

save some money which we will reinvest into local services. Gossoms End

Intermediate A Ê 4 Health visiting 1 Care Unit

There are no planned changes to our health visiting service in the town. Castle to

Health visitors will continue to support families in their homes and hold

baby clinics at Orchard Children’s Centre on Tuesday mornings.

BERKHAMSTED

Children’s eye care

This service is for children and young people with known or suspected

eye problems. These may include squint, reduced vision, refractive error, Ê A4 25

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problems affecting eye movement or binocular vision, or double vision.

The service is provided from Children Centre, Grovehill Clinic in

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A Hemel Hempstead and also at Tring Clinic once a week on Thursdays. 41 Hemel 6 41 Hempstead A to Chesham

We propose to move the Tring Clinic to Gossoms End in Berkhamsted.

Ê Bus routes The number 500 bus travels from Tring to Berkhamsted and stops just a one-minute walk

from Gossoms End.

Parking

Gossoms End clinic has a free car park and disabled access.

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