Transforming your Care: RCN member consultation meetings

Published: 06 November 2012

The Health and Social Care Board is currently consulting on the Transforming your Care reform of health and social care in Northern Ireland.

The consultation document addresses a range of issues, including primary care, the use of new technology, the future of statutory residential homes, mental health and learning disability services, palliative care and the configuration of acute services. The closing date is 15 January 2013.

The RCN is organising a series of local branch meetings across Northern Ireland in order to provide members with an opportunity to highlight issues of local concern and help shape the RCN’s response to the consultation.

Dates and venues are as follows.

• Belfast Branch: Monday 12 November 2012, 5.30pm: RCN, 17 Windsor Avenue, Belfast
• North Western Branch: Thursday 22 November 2012, 12.00pm: Lime Villa, Gransha Park
• Northern Branch: Tuesday 27 November 2012, 12.30pm: Training Room, Ward 6, McCaughey House, Whiteabbey Hospital
• Southern Branch: Wednesday 28 November 2012, 1.30pm: Tutorial Room 2, Craigavon Area Hospital
• South Eastern Branch: Friday 30 November 2012, 10.00am: Conservatory, Department of Psychiatry, Lagan Valley Hospital
• South Eastern Branch: Tuesday 4 December 2012, 10.00am: Meetings Room, Trust Headquarters, Ulster Hospital
• South Western Branch: Friday 7 December 2012, 12.00-2.00pm: Room 2, Education Centre, Level Two, South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen
• South Western Branch: Tuesday 18 December 2012, 12.00-2.00pm: Seminar Room, Postgraduate Centre, Tyrone County Hospital, Omagh
• Northern Branch: Thursday 10 January 2013, 11.00am-1.00pm, Seminar Room 1, Causeway Hospital, Coleraine.