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Greenknight, I thought long and hard about using the management speak. There was a time when I collected management speak, there have been some classics. A line taken from my CV reads.. "Marketing professional with experience of implementing integrated marketing communications to deliver a range of targeted campaigns."

Apart from the fact Herefordshire Councils, Senior Managers were involved.. Dazza333, GreenKnight stated the following in his post. "Most people realise the importance of healthcare perhaps more so than mental health". The money spent on websites and marketing material wasn't telling people anything they didn't already know. The issue it skipped around was mental health and the advice given in the leaflet would in my opinion leave someone suffering from mental health even more despondent than when they started reading it. The service offered by Herefordshire Council was no more than a sign posting service to services that already existed had anyone had the inclination to look for them. The development of services focussed on specific groups of individuals or needs has created a plethora of complex pathways for individuals (particularly people with mental health issues) to navigate in order to access services. In addition, while creating a system to meet a set of particular needs, it fails to account for other existing and potential areas of need. This results in an inflexible and unresponsive system, with people in and outside the system confused by various access points and referral criteria. This can and does lead to patients being referred from service to service, something mental health patients are rarely able to cope with. Care pathways should be transparent to all stakeholders, with a clear point of access with flexibility to account for varying presentation. For example I couldn't get an appointment at my local surgery for a blood test and was instead sent to Taurus. The nurse advised me my results would be sent back to my doctors surgery within the following two days. Two days later my surgery informed me they didn't have the results and they would be returned to Taurus. Finally after three days and numerous phone calls my GP surgery had to ring the hospital for the results! The more links you have in a chain the weaker that chain becomes and the harder it is to establish the 'weakest link'! Anyone fancies taking a look at the marketing material aimed at adults - follow the link below http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/pages/nhs-supporters.aspx?filter=NHS

Dazza333 sorry I misled you into thinking I didn't think healthy lifestyles was a good idea or something that needed addressing. I saw first hand the 100s of thousands of pounds wasted on this initiative, the marketing material adorned my desk for a number of months and trust me there was no expense spared! Nor was there any expense spared in the commissioning of staff or the salaries they were paid. Did one person ever cross my path asking directions to this service, the answer is no! From that perspective the scheme was ill thought out and if by some slim chance it met the criteria of the funding then the person/ people who set the criteria should be arrested! Please don't try and convince me this was successful at Herefordshire Council I already know it wasn't.

Dazza333 welcome to Hereford Voice. Have you any knowledge of the following https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/media/2312032/healthy_lifestyles_booklet.pdf https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/health-and-medical-advice/young-peoples-health/im-under-25-what-physical-activity-should-i-be-doing I believe it was grant funded.. Another serious waste of money that could have been used to address some of the issues raised in this thread.

Sebastian did someone clip your wings?

Actually I might abandon my moral code and invite Cllr Edwards to trim my bush, have you seen the cost of a good trim these days! Sticking a sign up in my garden which alludes to me selling out for the price of a trim is a small price to pay!

Why would you treat someone to a meal and then tweet about it? Acts of kindness cease to be so if you seek praise for them. It's almost like taking advantage of someone's misfortune to get acclaim.

I love this song it's one of my all time favourites! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOd8WADZZM

I've isolated the offending object

No it's not its a trouser snake!

I've got it! It's a finger!

Ragwert, please tell me you didn't get a muffin from Jesse? Muffins are the route of all evil, one mouthful and before you know where you are you're agreeing to all manner of things just to get another one. It's always wise to stay clear of MPs handing out muffins!

Maybe someone had that chat on forum etiquette according to the Conservatives? Hallelujah!!

Me too, but it has to be a good muffin! Any ole muffin just won't do!

We are beginning to sound like Art critics, we will be discussing lighting techniques shortly! Lol

Here's the official one but he's wearing glasses.. Good picture though

It's a bit like FBI profiling waiting for Bobby47 to tell us what kind of character we're dealing with, someone shut up those bleating lambs!

Took some finding this man is very fond of his shades!

It would appear this is not the first time Councillors have been accused of behaving badly!

without Glasses! And ears!

The Mayor of Ledbury Robert (Bob) Barnes

Mr Hadley, your statement below, does not fall on deaf ears on this site. "But if you accept that there are moments when it is necessary to break the rules, when all other avenues have been exhausted, in order to tell the truth, then what I did was justified." You only have to browse through the different topics to know that you are not the only one raising concerns publically because the establishment has tried to silence you. I would now suggest you grow a very thick skin and prepare yourself for the character assassination that will follow shortly. Trust me you won't recognise yourself when they've finished! My warmest regards and well done!

Jesse Normans statement on the accusation of bribery was- "Nonsense we had a couple of small boxes of chocolate muffins.... we may have given out one or two to children who are not even voters". Actually Jesse, you had two medium size boxes of muffins a packet of Bakewell tarts and what looks to be a large portion of Doritos (flavour unknown) I'm also guessing you didn't spend the night baking so it would appear the products are from Asda. How many boxes of those 'Asda bakery' muffins were sold as a result of all the free samples you gave out? Please answer the following questions Who gave you the muffins? Did you eat a muffin? Where they large, medium or small muffins? Where your muffins strategically placed? Since all gifts must be declared for public scrutiny, exactly how many muffins did you have, and what flavour were the Doritos?

The direct link to the video is below, I actually thought the response to Mr Hadley was far worse than anything he had to say and makes it look like there is something to hide? The chaos erupting was from those responding.

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