We welcome and value the views of our patients, their families and carers, visitors and our local communities. We want you to help us improve our services and ensure that we are focusing on the things that matter most to you.
You can see the current opportunities to get involved with the Trust below – along with links to the sign-up forms to express your interest.
If you can’t see any specific projects to get involved with at the minute but would like to register you interest in particular areas or topics that would appeal to you, please let us know here on our online form. Or you can email us directly at [email protected]. We will then make a note of your interest and keep you in mind for any upcoming projects requiring patient or public involvement.
Current Opportunities
- Register your interest in our upcoming patient panel
- Nominate in our People’s Award
- Public consultation: Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
- Patients and carers – please share your stories with us
Register your interest in our upcoming patient panel
Would you like to join our upcoming patient panel? We are looking for members with lived experience of the healthcare services, carers, patients or if you just have a particular interest in health services.
We are still finalising details, but the panel will have a commitment for members of regular meetings. The meetings will likely be held once a quarter and can either be attended in person or virtually. They will be structured meetings with set agendas that focus on current priorities of the panel and ask for your input on priorities, projects and improvements in the Trust.
Nominate in our People’s Award
Has an individual or team at the Trust had a positive impact on your life or that of a loved one?
You can nominate a member of staff or a team for a People’s Award in our 2025 staff awards.
Nominations close at 11.59pm on Sunday 30 March 2025.
Please click here to nominate on our Hospitals’ Charity website.
Public consultation: Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
NHS England is reviewing the services provided at our cancer centre in Northwood, Middlesex and a series of proposals have been developed. In response to patient feedback about longer journey times for some treatments, the plans include developing local services and the option of setting up an additional radiotherapy unit at either Lister Hospital or Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
Once the consultation opens NHS England want to find out what patients, local residents and staff think about these plans. There will be public meetings and events where you can find out more and a questionnaire to respond to. When the consultation start date is confirmed we will share further details. You can read more about the proposals for Mount Vernon here.
Please click here if you would like to register for updates on the review website.
Patients and carers – please share your stories with us
As a trust we learn most from the people who use our services and the people who work here. We are looking for patients, carers or family members who have used any of our services to tell us your stories.
We use these stories to learn from what went well so we can do more of those things and in some cases we learn from when things didn’t go well or according to plan. These stories can be told in different ways, face-to-face, on short video clips or they can be written down. We listen to what matters most and then make improvements based on what we hear.
If you have a story to tell we would like to hear from you. You can agree to the format we use to record your story and what we can do with this once you have told it.
Click here to register your interest in sharing your story with us.
Past Opportunities
- Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024
- Find out about digital innovations and developments in cancer care
- PLACE 2023 – Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment
Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024
This year’s Annual General Meeting took place on 18 September at 5.30pm.
Our chair Anita Day, and chief executive Adam Sewell-Jones along with our executive team spoke about the Trust’s performance over the past year.
You can now watch the Annual General Meeting back via YouTube by clicking this link.
Find out about digital innovations and developments in cancer care
On Thursday 26 September, our digital team held a webinar to discuss some of the digital developments that have taken place over the last year, including our new maternity electronic patient record (EPR) system, our new staff communication solution Alertive, and how patients are managing their care more closely with our digital Patient Hub. The team also be looked ahead, discussing the role of AI at the Trust, and the new EPR system for the wider Trust that will launch next year.
You can watch back the webinar here on YouTube.
PLACE 2023 – Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment
The yearly PLACE assessments allow patients ad members of the community to come into our hospitals and assess how the environment supports clinical care. The assessments generally take 4-5 hours and look at the hospital’s cleanliness, general building maintenance and also cover food tasting. Please click this link to find out more.
The 2023 assessments took place in November this year but if you would like to get involved with the 2024 assessment, please keep an eye on this page for updates or you can email us for more information at [email protected]
