As part of a second phase of 'national listening', (around how modernisation of health and social care can be achieved in order to ensure better outcomes for patients, users of services and the wider public), the NHS Future Forum is keen to gather the views and comments of patients, service users, carers and their representatives on four specific areas of work:

• how to improve information for users of services and professionals

• how to get services to join up better

• how the NHS can do more to improve people’s health and wellbeing (as well as treating illness)

• how to improve the education and training of doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

Please click on the links above to find out more about each issue and to give your comments. You can also send comments in by using the Feedback form.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot of time left to give your views as you can see from the deadlines below.

The deadline for comments on three of the topics – education and training of health and care professionals, information, and the role of the NHS in improving health and wellbeing – is 31 October 2011.

The deadline for comments on the subject of joined up services is 18 November 2011.

It is envisaged that the NHS Future Forum will report back to Government with its recommendations by the end of this year.

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