Thank you to Feedback South London for the invitation to their monthly meeting on Friday.  As always it was productive for the local service user community it serves. This was a good meeting as one of the Local HIV Commissioners attended to hear first hand from the service users about their issues and thoughts on the services commissioned on there behalf. 

T_hCell, the group behind this campaigning site.  Has much in common with Feedback South London. Though we are both independent entities. The main and most important thing we have in common is Service Users {that's you and me by the way}.  Feedback South London as it indicates is a forum for HIV positive people in the South of London. Services are commissioned differently here. Rather than each Primary Care Trust (PCT) and local Council commissioning and funding HIV Service provision on a council by council basis. The councils and PCT's have joined to form the South London Partnership. Commissioning services by pooling their funds for this.

If you want to know more see http://www.feedbacksl.org.uk

Clearly where T_hCell have an interest here, is that invitations to such meetings allow us to reach out to those who, as they don't have internet access, would be missed.  It gives us an oppourtunity to meet people, put faces behind the website and get the "grassroots" picture and feedback we need to move forward.

Where we can work and help groups that share our aims & objects, whilst remaining independent we will strive to do so as resources allow. 

T_hCell has attended many meetings where it has been invited to talk and answer questions on the Disability Living Allowance.  If you have a group that you believe would like to invite us to introduce ourselves and hold a session on the Disability Living Allowance please email me - john@tcell.org.uk .

As health/resources allow we will try to attend.