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
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