…Standards and networks for NHS HIV services…
HIV service networks
Why we need them and how to make them work.
Five seminars: sharing learning, do's and don'ts
London ~ Friday 14th March 2003
Birmingham ~ Tuesday 18th March 2003
Taunton ~ Thursday 20th March 2003
Wigan ~ Monday 31st March 2003
Leeds ~ Tues 1st April 2003
Funded by: Department of Health, London health authorities, British HIV
Association (BHIVA), National Association of NHS Providers of AIDS Care
and Treatment (PACT)
The HIV service networks seminars were aimed at:
- health and social care professionals providing services for people
with HIV (statutory and voluntary sectors, HIV specialists, primary
care and other services on the patient care pathway)
- commissioners of HIV services and strategic health authority staff
- HIV service users
The HIV service networks seminars aimed to increase participants'
knowledge and understanding of service network development and how to
utilise this approach in their work.
The HIV service networks seminars:
- presented up-to-date information on the policy drivers for developing
HIV service networks, including the forthcoming standards for NHS HIV
services
- provided opportunities to learn from experience of service network
development within and beyond the HIV sector
- discussed the practicalities of HIV service network development,
- provided the chance to give views on MedFASH's draft practice guide
to network development.
"All HIV practitioners will be expected to work within a managed
service network"
National strategy for sexual health and HIV, Department of Health,
2001
"Networks provide a way in which service providers, commissioners
and users can work together to plan and deliver services to meet standards
of care."
Standards for NHS HIV services, Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual
Health (MedFASH), draft for publication 2003
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