Norma Huxter

Patient Community Champion for Mid-Essex Clinical Commissioning Group. Catalyst for Change.

About Me

Retired disabled Disability Trainer & Advocate.  I am actively involved with various health and social services groups as well as being a lay preacher.  Advocate for personalised care, employment support allowance (ESA), personal independence payment (PIP), and other welfare benefits.

Condition interest or area of knowledge

• Disabilities - Service User/Patient and Carers Voice
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) - Tachycardia and Remote Monitoring
• Carer & Public Voice - Co-production
• Carer Support including Young Carers
• Social Prescribing - LiveWell Essex, The Swedish Way
• Personalised Care - Personal Health Budgets, Personal Budgets/Direct Payments, Independent Living
• Personal Wheelchair Budgets and Mobility
• Waste Management: Medicines - Look in the Bag; Recycling
• Health Equity, Refugees, Health Education
• Fostering and Mother and Child Groups
• Police and Probation Service - Victim Support
• Community Projects and Volunteering: Access Groups, Community360 Colchester
• Hospital Discharge and After Care - Community/Cottage Hospitals; Community Nursing and Social Care

Where I can help

• Essex
• Norfolk
• Suffolk

Organisations I am involved with: 

• Mid-Essex Patient Reference Group
• Secretary of the Braintree and District Access Group
• Options for Independent Living (OIL) Group
• Essex County Council service user participation groups
• Mid-Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
• Trustee of Coggeshall Nursing Trust
• World Day of Prayer