Coventry City Council are seeking views on the proposal to introduce a charge for Blue Badges. LINk are not submitting a response to this but we recommend people respond individually. For more information please visit the consultation section on the Coventry City Council website

The care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published the results of 100 unannounced inspections it made to hospitals across England, looking at whether the essential standards of dignity and nutrition were being met on wards for older people.

Out of the 100 hospitals inspected, only 45 met minimum standards for dignity and nutrition; a further 35 met the minimum standards in both categories but needed to make improvements. Twenty hospitals did not meet the minimum standards for either nutrition or dignity.

There is still time to take part in Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust public consultation.  The consultation is taking place until Monday 27 February.  For more information visit  www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/makeadifference 

78 people gave us views about finding their way at Univeristy Hospital Coventry Walsgrave site,  through our recent quick survey. The results have been fed back to managers at UHCW. Find out more and download the summary report of findings

The Care Quality Commission has published its Annual Report covering April 2010 to March 2011 on the state of health and adult social care in England.  The report looks at outcomes for people and takes a broad view across the public, private and voluntary sector services.  For more infomation visit www.cqc.org.uk/stateofcare2010-11.cfm

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is a national organisation that provides guidance for healthcare professionals on the best way to treat and prevent illnesses and diseases. NICE is inviting people to say what they know about NICE. Go to their survey at survey monkey 

West Midlands Ambulance Service have launched an online survey to gather feedback on non-emergency patient ambulance transport. Coventry LINk recently looked at patient transport for kidney dialysis patients and

The Government has launched a consultation about how the funding to pay for the new areas of work that HealthWatch will take on from October 2012 should be allocated to local auhtorities. The funding will be transfered from

A second NHS listening exercise has recenlty been launched by the NHS Future Forum to gather comments on: how information can be made to improve health, care and wellbeing; developing the NHS workforce; ensuring