Agenda item
Information Reports Received
- Meeting of Dorset Council - Health Scrutiny Committee, Thursday, 5th March, 2020 10.00 am (Item 37.)
The following information reports have been
received since the last meeting:-
Healthwatch
Dorset draft Workplan 2020/21
Healthwatch Dorset is the county’s independent health and
care champion. It exists to ensure that people are at the heart of care.
Our dedicated team of staff and volunteers listen to what people
across Dorset like about local health and care services, and what they think
could be improved. These views are then used to create our Workplan for
the year, so a real difference can be made.
The Healthwatch Dorset Staff Team and Steering Group have drafted
a Workplan for 2020/21 based on what people have told us this year, while also giving consideration to national and local priorities in
health and social care.
·
Cancer Support Services in West Dorset – Healthwatch Dorset has
been commissioned to work on this engagement project, finding out what local
people who are living with cancer think of the support they receive. Our
findings will influence a local Macmillan pilot project to begin in April 2020
and we will also be gathering more feedback at the end of 2020 to find out if
people’s experiences have improved. More info here: https://healthwatchdorset.co.uk/how-would-you-improve-local-cancer-support-services/
·
Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services – as part of the
CAMHS review this year Healthwatch Dorset will be gathering feedback from
marginalised young people eg. children excluded from
school, young asylum seekers, young people who are homeless etc. Our findings
will feed into the Dorset CCG CAMHS review by gathering feedback from
young people who don’t always have the loudest voice.
·
Access to Primary Care – one of the most common themes local
people speak to us about is their access to primary care. This is a long term project for the year which will need more
research, with consideration being given to disabled access, learning
disability health checks, carers & older people. This project will also
help Healthwatch Dorset develop stronger working relationships with Patient
Participation Groups and Primary Care Networks.
·
Accident & Emergency Care – in October/November 2019 we worked
on a national project, together with 5 other local
Healthwatch, talking to people in Poole A&E about their experience. Our
findings have helped to inform the national review of A&E performance
measures and our local report will be published in February 2020. This year we
plan to look at ways of working with Dorset County Hospital and Royal
Bournemouth Hospital on patient experience in A&E, to help inform the
planned changes to local services following the Clinical Services Review.
·
Transport – this is a key theme that local people raise with
Healthwatch Dorset. This is a long term project for
the year which will need more research and will take into consideration the
need for clear and accessible information, disabled access, older people and
rural communities. We will aim to work together with Public Health, the local
NHS, both local councils, the voluntary sector and Healthwatch England on this
project.
As an
important stakeholder, we welcome your thoughts on our draft Workplan. This
workplan has been designed to allow us enough capacity to work on emerging
issues, so please take this opportunity to let us know of any other areas you
think we should prioritise.
We want to ensure that we’re working on projects that are
important to local people, feed into NHS and Social Care priorities, don’t
duplicate work already being done and are able to make a real difference for
local people. We also welcome the opportunity to work in partnership, so
please get in touch if you’d be interested in working with us.
We will finalise our Workplan at the Healthwatch Dorset Steering
Group meeting in March 2020. Please send your comments and any suggestions
by email to me at louise.bate@healthwatchdorset.co.uk
by 10th March 2020 at the latest.
‘Your Mind, Your
Say’ – seeking views on mental health services for children and young people.
NHS Dorset Clinical
Commissioning Group (together with health, care and voluntary sector partners
across Dorset) have launched a project called ‘Your Mind Your Say’ to seek
views on mental health services for children and young people.
There have been
various pieces of view seeking work done by other organisations over the last
few years and the CCG wants to add to this with a focus on service provision
and then bring all the information together into a comprehensive report about
what people think.
We are launching a
survey which will run throughout February 2020. This is available in
on-line, paper and easy read versions. We would like to ask your help
with sharing the link to our webpage so that people can access these https://www.dorsetccg.nhs.uk/yourmind/
The survey is for anyone
who has a view on children and young people’s mental health services including
children, young people and their families/carers. Young people under 16 will
need parental consent to complete it.
The more views we
collect the better the outcome will be in helping us to work together to
improve children and young people’s mental health services across Dorset.
For your
information, in addition to the survey we are also planning to visit places
that children and young people attend, including schools, youth centres and
support groups. These visits will run until the end of March 2020.
Minutes:
The Committee received information reports from Healthwatch dorset on their draft workplan 2020/21 and from the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group on "Your Mind, Your Say".
Noted