Regional Action West Midlands (RAWM) the regional infrastructure body for the voluntary and community sector in the West Midlands exists to enable a sustainable, influential, and inclusive sector. RAWM distributes regular enews bulletins on issues relating to health and social care and this can be accessed through RAWM’s website. To find out more please contact Pauline Roche or call 0121 237 5817. Polly Goodwin and Karen Garry are the RAWM Health Policy Associates.

During the transition RAWM is:

• Building relationships with NHS West Midlands around the health transition and emerging clinical commissioning groups and also leading on voluntary sector engagement with the equality delivery system.
• Conducting an online survey to local infrastructure agencies and contact being made with local agencies to gather intelligence about engagement with the transition.
• Supporting the LINks/HealthWatch transitional process
• Working with Learning for Public Health and BVSC to deliver event in Autumn looking at workforce development in relation to the transition and looking and how we can up-skill health commissioners to understand about sector – this is in very early planning stages
• Exploring potential to establish a health forum/network with local infrastructure agencies
• Bringing infrastructure agency CEOs together to discuss Public Sector White Paper and Infrastructure funding via BIG
• Exploring with SHA contact how to support GP’s to build better relationships with sector and understand what sector can offer.

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