East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG Members Magazine Summer 14

Members’ Magazine | Summer 2014www.elrmembership.org

Inside: NHS Cosmetic Surgery • Improving Urgent Care • Choose Better Guides • Healthcare at Home • Hay Fever • Let’s Talk

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Dear members,Welcome to the summer edition of our magazine for East Leicestershire and Rutland be healthy, be heard members.At the last count we found that there were 4,338. Not bad!

That’s the total number of people who – like you – have joined our CCG’s free public membership scheme.

It’s a number we are proud of, but we would like to encourage a great many more of you to be part of be healthy, be heard. Would you like to suggest the best way that you believe we should use to encourage more people to join? If so, please contact us. It’s really important to us that we hear from as many people as possible so we can ensure all our plans take on board your views and our services are completely focussed on better outcomes for patients, their families and carers. The panel on the right tells you our contact phone number and email address.

And may I say a big thank you to all of you who took part in our consultation on the best way to deliver urgent care? It was the biggest and most complex public engagement and consultation project we have ever undertaken, and we were delighted with the level of people’s involvement.

Throughout the review, which began as long ago as 2012, we have been listening to local people’s views of the existing services and how they could be improved. It attracted a great deal of comment and media coverage, and set up a real dialogue between our CCG and the people we serve in an encouraging and effective way. What happens next is covered on pages 6 and 7 and

we promise to keep you all posted – all 4,338 of you – and everyone who joins meantime.

We are also asking you to come to our first ever Annual General Meeting (AGM). It’s on Tuesday 2 September at Leicester Racecourse, on Leicester Road, Oadby, LE2 4AL. It’s a chance to find out more about how we are meeting the challenges facing the NHS, how we’ve been performing in our first year and what plans we have for the future. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions.

Doors open at 4pm with the AGM running from 6-7.30pm. Parking is free and light refreshments will be available. To register please email the events team at communications@eastleicestershireand rutlandccg.nhs.uk or call 0116 295 4183.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Dave Briggs

Managing Director East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group

Contactus:If you have a practical tip, health suggestion or an interesting story, please send it for inclusion in the next issue using the contact details below. We are also looking for cover stars – send us your picture and health story if you would like to appear on our coverEmail: [email protected]

Post: Please send all correspondence to:

East Leicestershire & Rutland CCG Freepost ADMAIL 4228 Market Harborough LE16 7ZZ

Telephone: 0300 555 5345

Please note that the membership helpline is open between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Published by: GEM CSU, St John’s House, 30 East Street, Leicester, LE1 6NB



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Contactus:Wheelchair basketball is identical to the able-bodied version. The same courts. The same height baskets – and most of the same rules.

Now Melton Mowbray has its own wheelchair basketball club. The Melton Stallions were founded after Melton Learning Hub and Melton Council won a £147,000 grant from Sport England – and the club is for disabled and able-bodied people, youngsters and adults. It was established earlier this year as a satellite club to the Leicester Cobras Wheelchair Basketball Club.

Ian Trott, chairman of Leicester Cobras, spends over seven hours a week coaching the Melton club. Ian said: “I am really excited to be involved with the Stallions. Wheelchair basketball is a fantastically exciting sport. It’s

physical, it’s all action and it is a very fast moving sport.

“We are looking for new players and volunteers to help build and run the new club. You don’t have to be a wheelchair user, but you will need to get used to playing from one. You don’t need a wheelchair either. We have a supply of specially adapted wheelchairs. And you don’t need to have had experience playing the sport – we have fully qualified coaches to show you how.”

Training is on Tuesdays from 5pm to 6pm at KE7 Sports Hall, Burton Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE13 1DR. The club is open to males and females aged from 10 upwards.

Launched in February this year, they demonstrated their skills at Melton Country Park Fete in

April and challenged visitors to have a go. The Stallions’ base is the Melton Learning Hub, which was formed to offer young people a different way to approach learning using a variety of exciting and practical courses.

The launch-day ribbon was cut by Melton

area resident and local celebrity, Claire Lomas, who has taken on a series of gruelling fundraising challenges since being paralysed in a horse riding accident in 2007. She went on to hit the national headlines this spring as the first person to complete the London Marathon in a ‘bionic suit’, crossing the finishing line on The Mall 16 days after the race began.

David Cowell, Melton Learning Hub centre manager, said: “We had a great turnout at the Stallions’ launch and we want as many people to come along on club nights as possible.

“The great thing about it is that disabled people can play alongside able-bodied people. And it puts everyone on a level playing field once they are in wheelchairs.

“We are also taking the wheelchairs into Melton schools and giving the children a chance to try out the sport. It helps to raise awareness of disabilities.”

The aim for the club is to develop a team capable of playing in the county league, which starts in September. Players must be aged 12 or over and teams are allowed one able-bodied person for league matches. Junior teams are aged from 10.

To join, just come along to a Tuesday training session or contact the Melton Learning Hub on 01664 564967 or email [email protected].

WITH WHEELS OF STEEL!It’s all about speed, strategy and sheer skill! If you caught any of the wheelchair basketball matches on TV during the London 2012 Paralympic Games, you’ll know what a fast and fantastic sport it is.

Stallionsarea resident and local celebrity, caught any of the wheelchair basketball matches on TV

fantastically exciting sport. It’s April and challenged visitors to have a go. The Stallions’ base is the Melton Learning Hub, which was formed to offer young people a different way to approach learning using a variety of exciting and practical courses.

The launch-day ribbon was cut by Melton



Dr Richard Palin, from Oadby and Wigston, and Dr Andy Ker, from Oakham, are already familiar faces around the governing body’s boardroom table. Subject to formal procedures, they will become clinical vice chairs from the beginning of July.

Dr Palin has been a GP partner at Bushloe End Surgery in Wigston since 2004. He is currently the GP locality lead representing all the practices in Oadby and Wigston. He represented ELR in our work with Leicester hospitals on improving stroke and cancer care and has also been a driving force behind the recent urgent care review across our area.

Dr Ker is a senior partner at Oakham Medical Practice in Rutland, where he has worked for the last 24 years. He is also a locality lead – for all the GP practices in Melton, Rutland and Harborough. Dr Ker led the work to transform and enhance community services. He also pioneered the integrated care project, bringing health and social care services together effectively and efficiently to make sure patients receive the medical treatment they need and are well looked after while they recover.

Our CCG’s managing director, Dr Dave Briggs, said: “I am really pleased that both Richard and Andy have been appointed as clinical vice chairs to work alongside our chair Graham Martin. Both are currently GP locality leads for the CCG and have already made a considerable contribution to improving local health services.”

In a joint statement Dr Palin and Dr Ker said: “We are really pleased to be taking up the role of clinical vice chairs and we welcome the opportunity to help lead the clinical aspect of commissioning in East Leicestershire and Rutland on behalf of our patients.

“We are really proud of the work the CCG has undertaken already but we are looking forward to the wider responsibility of engaging with providers and helping to improve quality of services for patients.”

Two new clinical vice chairs

At the end of June we say goodbye to our clinical vice chair, Dr Hamant Mistry, who is returning to his full-time GP role – and we welcome two new clinical vice chairs.

Clinical vice chairs work with the chair to help steer and oversee the work of our clinical commissioning group.

Dr Richard Palin

Dr Andy Ker



You helped to shape

Thanks for your help in deciding which changes to make to the local NHS policy on funding cosmetic surgery.

The survey closed on 24 April and almost 300 people took part.

The region’s NHS clinical commissioning groups agree that, in general, cosmetic procedures have relatively small health benefits compared to many other forms of healthcare.

The East Midlands Cosmetic Procedures Policy details the surgery that is not normally publically funded and the procedures that are only funded if medical criteria are met. But ‘only if’. The criteria are based on clinical evidence, expert opinion and value for money.

All NHS clinical commissioning groups in the East Midlands worked together to review the existing

policy – for each condition that could be treated – and wanted people’s opinions on whether the proposed changes were reasonable and fair.

Changes were proposed to policies for cosmetic surgery to treat certain conditions of the nose, earlobes, both men’s and women’s genitals and breasts, including dealing with female breast implant problems. The policy also made it clear that hair transplants to correct baldness would not be routinely funded on the NHS.

Dr Dave Briggs, managing director of our clinical commissioning group, said: “The public image of ‘plastic surgery’ has been shaped by media coverage of private surgeons enhancing people’s body image. However, some cosmetic surgery is available to NHS patients, but only if there is compelling clinical evidence for it.

“But are our policies reasonable and fair? That’s what it was really about and we welcomed people’s views on the proposed changes. Early reports show that an overwhelming percentage of people who responded thought the policy changes were fair and reasonable, but all feedback will be reported across the whole East Midlands before any formal changes are made.

“Thanks to everyone who took the time to take part.”

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Improving urgent care– a decision is made

Following our consultation earlier this year, the proposal which gained the most public support was given the go-ahead at June’s governing body meeting. It was also our preferred option.

The consultation offered three options for urgent care, based on different opening hours, locations and services on offer. It also asked people where a future urgent care centre should be located in the borough of Oadby and Wigston.

The successful option for East Leicestershire and Rutland as a whole offers minor illness and minor injury services at all 34 GP practices during the daytime from Monday to Friday, opening at 8.30am. Their minor injury service will run until 5pm, which is when urgent care centres will open for the evening sessions to look after both minor injuries and illnesses.

These urgent care centres will be in Oakham, Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray, and they will be open on weekday evenings from 5pm-9pm. On weekends and Bank Holidays they will open from 9am till 7pm. The plan for the foreseeable future is for them to be based in the same community hospitals as they are at present.

The urgent care centre for Oadby and Wigston borough will be open an hour longer than at present on weekdays – from 8am to 9pm. On weekends and Bank Holidays it will be open from 9am to 7pm. The service is likely to remain in its current premises at The Parade in Oadby, subject to continuing discussions.

Overall, 83 per cent of those who responded to the urgent care consultation chose the same option for the whole of East Leicestershire and Rutland that was approved by our governing body. It was also preferred by Healthwatch Rutland, Healthwatch Leicestershire, Leicestershire Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Rutland County Council Cabinet and the Rutland People (Adults and Health) Scrutiny Panel.

However, the answers to the question about where people would like the urgent care centre to be in the Oadby and Wigston Borough were not quite so clear cut. More people chose Oadby (31%) than Wigston (11%). However, 57% did not have a preference one way or the other.

A report to our governing body this month said that it was likely to remain where it is in Oadby,

following agreement in principle from the property owner. However, would-be healthcare providers bidding for the future contract will be able to propose a different location, if they wish, but they would need to put forward a compelling case for moving.

The next steps will see a specification drawn up for would-be providers of urgent care services. The contracts will be put out to tender, where needed, so the new arrangements for urgent care can begin from 1 April next year.

Tim Sacks, chief operating officer of ELR CCG, said: “We would like to thank every member of the public and the organisations who attended one of our events, visited our listening booth or had their say through our questionnaire.”

We will also make sure there is plenty of clear advertising about opening times and the kinds of illness and injury that our urgent care services can treat ahead of the changes. If you would like to let us know how and where you would like this important information to be best communicated to you, your family, friends and carers please email communications@eastleicestershireand rutlandccg.nhs.uk or write to

East Leicestershire & Rutland CCG, Communicating Urgent Care, Freepost ADMAIL 4228, Market Harborough LE16 7ZZ.

Work is already under way to improve and reshape urgent care services for treating minor injuries and illnesses across East Leicestershire and Rutland. The revised service will launch in April 2015.



Oadby & Wigston

Current service From 1 April 20158am-8pm, 7 days a week, 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri, minor injury service available all GP practices. at Oadby & Wigston Minor illness available as normal during practice hours. Walk-In Centre for minor 8am-9pm, Mon-Fri, minor injury and minor illness service available at injury and minor illness. urgent care centre. 9am-7pm weekends and Bank Holidays, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. What this means: Minor injury and illness service is available from 8am-9pm on weekdays, and 9am-7pm on weekends and Bank Holidays.

Oakham

Current service From 1 April 20159am-5pm – Mon-Fri at 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri, minor injury service available all GP practices urgent care centre at (Oakham Medical Practice will continue to provide this daytime service from Rutland Memorial Hospital Rutland Memorial Hospital with x-ray facilities available). Minor illness service available as normal during practice hours.No weekend or B/H service 5pm-9pm Mon-Fri, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. 9am-7pm weekends and Bank Holidays, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. What this means: Minor injury and illness service available from 8.30am-9pm on weekdays, and 9am-7pm on weekends and Bank Holidays.

Market Harborough

Current service From 1 April 20159am-9pm – 7 days a week 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri, minor injury service available all GP practices at urgent care centre based (Market Harborough Medical Centre will continue to provide this day time at Market Harborough service from Market Harborough District Hospital with x-ray facilities available). District Hospital Minor illness service available as normal during practice hours. 5pm-9pm Mon-Fri, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. 9am-7pm weekends and Bank Holidays, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. What this means: Minor injury and illness service available from 8.30am-9pm on weekdays, and 9am-7pm on weekends and Bank Holidays.

Melton Mowbray

Current service From 1 April 20158.30am-5pm – Mon-Fri at 8.30am-5pm, Mon-Fri, minor injury service available all GP practices Latham House Medical (Latham House Medical Practice will continue to provide a walk-in service Practice at their practice). Minor illness available as normal during practice hours.9.30am-1pm weekends 5pm-9pm Mon-Fri, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent and Bank Holidays at care centre. Melton Mowbray Hospital 9am-7pm weekends and Bank Holidays, minor injury and minor illness service available at urgent care centre. What this means: Minor injury and illness service available from 8.30am-9pm on weekdays, and 9am-7pm on weekends and Bank Holidays.

Future urgent care where you are



One helps parents looking after their children. The other is people in their later years.

Parents’ Choose Better short film

This video helps parents find the best way and the best place to get advice or medical care for their children. It has been filmed as a chat with a busy mother-of-three, who talks about the common illnesses her children have had and where she went for help or advice. Please visit www.choosebetter.org.uk to view the short film. It’s on the home page.

Julia McGinley, a parent supporter at the popular Netmums website, commented: “It’s always a worry when your children are ill, so online health information and the NHS videos are really helpful to the busy parents on the Netmums website.

“They clearly explain the issues and, because they are written and delivered by health professionals, they are credible sources of information. It’s easy to find out what to do next and where to go for more information whatever time – day or night.”

Please take a look at the Choose Better video. It’s amazing how much you’ll find out in less than five minutes.

A guide to keeping healthy and happy in later life

This is our new brochure called A guide to keeping healthy and happy in later life, which gives specific advice on where to go for help and how to keep well. It is available to download from the Choose Better website and printed copies are being sent

out to GP surgeries, pharmacies and Age UK branches.

In its information-packed 24 pages, you’ll find sections on keeping healthy, long-term conditions, heart health, wellbeing and mental health, as well as advice for carers. And because we published this useful booklet with our neighbouring CCGs, there is a directory of where to go for help and advice across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. It’s well worth browsing through then keeping around the house for when you need it.

Tony Donovan, executive director of Leicester Shire & Rutland Age UK, added: “The over-

60s is the fastest-growing group in society and the guide is a great resource, providing a wealth of information and advice to help them stay fit and healthy in later life.

“We are pleased to support the Choose Better campaign by distributing the guide throughout our network of shops and centres across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.”

To see for yourself visit www.choosebetter.org.uk, click on the Useful Information tab and scroll down. You’ll find lots of other guides on the same page.

Parents and older people targeted in new

GUIDESThe youngest and oldest users of NHS services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland now have their own new Choose Better guides.

Choose Better


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Modern healthcare allows many more patients to receive care at home, or closer to home, rather than travelling to a large hospital. It not only means that many hospital admissions can be avoided, but when they do occur patients can shorten their hospital stay, or go directly home to rehabilitate, knowing that future care or community health support is in place for them.ELR CCG, working in partnership with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT), has already started to modernise and change the way we provide community health services. For example, we have started a new virtual ward system – a service which aims to stop people having to go into hospital.

We have also developed home-based intensive community support services that aim to look after

people at home following discharge from hospital at an earlier stage.

Both these new services provide a range of hospital-style support to patients in their own home or in a care/nursing home, with a ward manager or care co-ordinator overseeing care arrangements.

This is an effective way to enable more people to be cared for at home without the need for a hospital stay, or to help people leave hospital earlier.

Together the virtual care and intensive community support could mean many more patients a month leaving hospital sooner.

In addition to this LPT have started a new night-sitting service designed to further avoid unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital.

The service, which is initially a pilot scheme, operates through the night in undertaking patient assessment to establish night care needs and support individuals who otherwise would have been admitted as emergencies.

M O D E R N H E A LT H C A R E

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There are over 10 million cases in the UK according to Allergy UK. And sufferers usually find their symptoms are worse between May and July.

So, as we enter the peak hay fever season, your CCG’s GPs are offering some advice.

Hay fever is inflammation of the airways in your nose, triggered by allergens in the air, such as pollen. Grass pollen is the most common cause.

Symptoms can vary depending on the pollen count – from sneezing, a runny or blocked nose, itchy or watery eyes and persistent cough, to headaches and fatigue. Combined with asthma, people may also

experience tightness in their chest and shortness of breath.

Dr Hamant Mistry, a GP and our CCG’s clinical vice chair, said: “Sufferers of mild symptoms can ask their local pharmacist for advice, as over-the-counter remedies are usually effective and relatively inexpensive. For more persistent symptoms and for sufferers of other common allergic conditions like eczema and asthma, people should see their GP as they may need regular preventative medication and advice about emergency treatment.

“Research indicates that many people find their symptoms lessen as they grow older and in 10-20% of cases they disappear completely. But, if affected, it’s advisable to wear sunglasses when possible and change clothing after spending time outside as pollen can cling to clothing fibres.”

To help identify the areas most affected by a high pollen count view the UK pollen forecast map on the Met Office website www.metoffice.gov.uk.

For more information on allergies, call Allergy UK on 01322 619898 or visit www.allergyuk.org.

Aahh-CHOO-SE!Better!… for the hay fever seasonHay fever affects one in five people at some point in their lives.




Whatever happened to that ‘care.data’ project?Earlier this year a leaflet was sent to every home in England explaining that the project would use patients’ data, stripped of names and addresses. Analysts would examine the masses of data to produce statistics to be used for better understanding and planning healthcare. Patients could opt out of having their data used, if they wished.

Fears over the security of the data were expressed by some GPs and national voluntary groups, prompting negative media coverage. So in February NHS England announced a six-month extension to the start of the care.data project.

Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, said: “Since February we have been listening to the views of patients, the public, GPs and stakeholders on how best to build trust and confidence in this project.”

Parliament has also passed legislation to provide tighter controls of patient data. Tim explained: “To me this feels like a real milestone for patients, clinicians and researchers. The new law means that a person’s data can only be shared and analysed when there is a benefit to healthcare, never for other purposes, and that all uses will be scrutinised with full transparency by an independent statutory body. In addition, there will now be a legal basis for people to stop their data being shared if they wish to.

“These legal safeguards were introduced as a direct result of concerns about the safeguards around data sharing in the NHS raised in light of the care.data initiative.”

Another important development has been creating a Care.Data Advisory Group. Local GPs, patients and public, plus health and care representatives, are all being encouraged to air their views and help ensure any future approach is right.

Tim continued: “In light of all these conversations, we are now proposing to phase the implementation of care.data and work with between 100 and 500 GP practices in the autumn to test, evaluate and refine the data collection process ahead of a national roll out.”

He would not announce a new ‘launch date’, however. “We do not subscribe to artificial deadlines here – we will roll it out nationally only when we are sure the process is right,” he said.

He also said it was important that patients know how their data has been used for improvement of services. The national director highlighted three good reasons for re-using data:

• Data empowers commissioners to ensure the highest standards of care and clinical safety are met – or shout loudly and respond quickly if standards drop

• Data can tell us what happens to people cared for outside of hospital and whether their needs are met or not

• Data helps researchers develop new medicines and improve our understanding and treatment of disease

We will let be healthy, be heard members know more when further information is available.

You may have been wondering what happened

to the massive care.data project to share NHS

databases for research and planning. So we thought we’d give you an update.




New provider – new name:

Let’s talk...A new organisation has taken over the reins as the provider of

‘talking therapies’ across Leicestershire and Rutland.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust was appointed by our CCG and West Leicestershire CCG to manage the ‘Improved Access to Psychological Therapies Service’ (IAPT). The trust will also provide mental health facilitator services. These facilitators work with GP surgeries and other health professionals to help them understand the needs of patients with mental health problems and provide the best possible approach.

Both these services were previously provided by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.

Set up in 2009, IAPT is for people over 16 in Leicestershire and Rutland, who are feeling troubled, stressed, anxious or depressed. It offers patients a trained therapist to talk to, who can also direct them to other support and services.

Let’s Talk – Wellbeing is the service’s new name. It provides a range of treatment and help for people with problems, such as depression and anxiety, using trained psychological therapists. Patients are referred by their GP, however, the new provider is trialling a self-referral system in Loughborough University and for a selected group of patients with long-term conditions before extending this approach over the coming year.

Professor Mike Cooke is Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare. He said: “We are delighted to be delivering our Let’s Talk – Wellbeing service in Leicestershire and Rutland. The service provides essential support for people with mental health problems, helping to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

“We have a proven track record in successfully delivering IAPT and mental health facilitator services in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and will be enhancing the Leicestershire and Rutland service with the introduction of self-referrals and other developments later this year to improve access for patients.

“Working with our colleagues at East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and West Leicestershire CCG, we will ensure that the highest quality services are delivered.”

Dr Graham Johnson, a Lutterworth GP and a CCG governing body member, said: “Anyone feeling low or stressed and wanting help is encouraged to speak to their GP who can make a referral to Let’s Talk – Wellbeing. Patients currently under the care of the IAPT and mental health facilitator service will continue to see their existing therapist in the same location.”



In April this year Rick Moore was appointed as the new chair of Healthwatch Leicestershire (HWL). One of Rick’s first tasks, along with the board, was to clarify the role of Healthwatch Leicestershire.

The board recognised the importance of setting a vision, mission and success criteria, so that board members, staff and volunteers remain focused on what needs to be achieved.

They agreed its mission was “to be an independent, influential consumer champion of health and social care services in Leicestershire, where people’s rights and responsibilities in health and social care are understood and delivered”.

They have set five priorities, which are all based on listening to residents about their views on local health and social care services in the organisation’s first year. The priorities are:

1 Listening to the local population, consumers and stakeholders – engaging with the public and targeting seldom-heard and hard-to-reach communities to understand what matters most.

2 Advice and information – delivering an effective helpline providing high quality advice and information that is supported by an extensive information bank developed with key stakeholders.

3 Gathering intelligence to inform Healthwatch Leicestershire’s role of influence, challenge and scrutiny – to be well informed about local and national health and social care initiatives, analysing and reporting on intelligence gained from local people.

4 Influence on key stakeholder committees to inform commissioning and service delivery – to

have representatives on key strategic boards and committees and develop collaborative partnerships that will influence health and social care services.

5 Challenge and scrutiny – an ‘Enter & View’ programme delivered by authorised and trained volunteers who will report findings and recommendations to commissioners and providers.

You can download a summary from HWL’s Strategic Plan 2014/16 at www.healthwatchleicestershire.co.uk. It provides an overview of HWL priorities and what a successful county healthwatch will look like.

Board meetings in public

Healthwatch Leicestershire’s board will be meeting in public on 16 July and 15 October 2014, as well as 22 January and 23 April 2015.

The agenda and papers for each meeting, along with details on how to book a place will be available five days before the meeting at www.healthwatchleicestershire.co.uk.

New chair forHealthwatch Leicestershire

Become a member of Healthwatch Leicestershire and have a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and social care services are provided locally. Members are kept up to date with the latest health and social care news, events and consultations as well as representing local people at health and social care meetings. For more information and to become a member visit www.healthwatchleicestershire.co.uk email: [email protected] or call 0116 257 4999.

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Banana ChocolateMethod:

Slice bananas and feed onto lolly-maker stick then dip into low fat chocolate yogurt/mousse and (optional) chopped nuts. Place in freezer for three hours. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas• 200ml low fat chocolate

yogurt/mouse• 20g chopped nuts (optional)

Good as a snack or pudding to keep hunger at bay or satisfy sweet cravings especially as the weather gets warmer. ICE LOLLIES

Serves: 6 adults

Preparation time: 15 mins

Cooking time: 0 minsNutritional information:

(per serving)

67kcals (80kcals with nuts)

8.4g sugar (10g sugar with nuts)

1g fat (2g fat with nuts)

This recipe has been tried and tested from the Leicestershire Nutrition and Dietetic Service. To find out more about them and the first ever national campaign to raise awareness of dietetics, please visit their website at www.lnds.nhs.uk



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