Gary, thanks for that clarification. I wasn't realy 'on the wrong track'. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Worn To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:04 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Re italk24 Eleanor and Flor, With the greatest respect to you both, you are on the wrong track. Italk24 is an app that can facilitate users that would like to record audio messages instead of typing them. Handy for people with limited mobility in their upper body and the older generation that can't text, they can send messages to people in there contact list. It does not type the message, it's just for audio. It certainly cannot be compared to Siri, as you don't ask it questions or commands. Gary Sent from Gary's IPhone. On 25 Mar 2014, at 23:02, "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: How does it differ from using Ceri? Excuse spelling. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Worn" <garyworn@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Vip.students" <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:16 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re italk24 Hi guys. I came across this app, and find it good for recording audio messages which you can text or email, and it's free to try but you can buy the full version for €5.99 on the App Store. Gary Sent from my iPadAppeals Process Appeals process as of 4 February 2014 - policy ratified by CCG Governing Body on this date. If the patient is unhappy with the manner in which the policy has been applied to their individual circumstances, the patient or their doctor is able to appeal. Any such appeal will be heard at three difference steps as detailed below. The first step in the appeals process: If the patient indicates that he or she wishes to appeal, it is for them or their clinician to set out the reasons for their appeal in writing. The Panel Office Team should consider the appeal and decide whether it discloses relevant and significant material or information which was not originally before the Fortnightly Review Panel. If the appeal does contain new relevant and significant material or information then the Fortnightly Review Panel should reconsider the decision by taking it to the next Fortnightly Review Panel meeting. If there is no additional information, the Panel will not consider the case and write back to the referring clinician and/or the patient refusing the funding. The second step of the appeals process will be a 1:1 meeting with the Fortnightly Review Chair and the patient. The Chair will attend the meeting with a member of the Panel Office Team. For drug requests the Senior Pharmacist will also attend this meeting. The patient is entitled to bring along a family member or representative for this meeting. The purpose of the meeting is for the Chair to explain the Commissioning Authority policy and process, and the reasons that the Panel reached its decision. It also allows the Chair to listen to the concerns of the patient and answer any queries they may have. It also gives an opportunity for the patient to provide any new information that was not presented to the Panel before. If, having met the patient, the Chair considers that the Panel should reconsider the decision, they will refer the case back to the Monthly Panel for reconsideration with any new information they have gathered. The third and final step within the appeals process is for the case to be reviewed by the Commissioning Authority Appeals Committee. The patient has the right to have the matter considered afresh by the Appeals Committee. All members of the Appeals Committee should have had no prior involvement with the case. The membership should consist of: A Lay Member of the Commissioning Authority – Chair. A GP or other relevant clinician, who is a member of the CCG. Director of Public Health. Director or Assistant Director of Commissioning. The Appeals Committee is part of the corporate governance process of the Commissioning Authority. Its role is to determine whether the Panel has followed its own procedures, has properly considered the evidence presented to it and has come to a reasonable decision upon the evidence. The Appeals Committee shall consider all the papers which were before the Panel and any further material provided by the patient or those acting on his or her behalf. It shall hold a hearing at which the Panel Chair will make their case for refusing funding and the patient and/or their representatives, eg clinician shall be entitled to put their case for consideration by the Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee will be able to question the Panel Chair and the patient (or representatives) to get more clarity about the case. In reaching its decision, the Appeals Committee shall apply the same approach and tests as set out in this policy. The Appeals Committee will be able to uphold the patient’s appeal and shall refer the case for reconsideration by the Panel, in the event that the Appeals Committee considers that the Panel has: failed in a material way to follow its own procedures; and/or failed in a material way properly to consider the evidence presented to it (eg by taking account of an immaterial fact or by failing to take account of a material fact); and/or come to a decision that no reasonable Panel could have come to on the evidence before the panel. The Appeals Committee shall not have power to authorise funding for the requested treatment, but shall have the right to make recommendations to the Panel and to request the Chair to take urgent decisions. Any challenges to the Clinical Priorities Policies or statements will be referred by the Appeals Committee to the Chair of the Clinical Policies Forum to review the policy and request a report once the policy is reviewed. All patients also have the option of putting in a formal complaint to the Commissioning Authority concerning the policy, the process or the decision. The patient is also entitled to make a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and to request a judicial review of their case.==================== The vip_students mailing list Manage account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/vip_students Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/vip_students Administrative contact: support@xxxxxxx ==================== =========================================================== The vip_students mailing list Manage account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/vip_students Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/vip_students Administrative contact: support@xxxxxxx ===========================================================