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\"105-Healthweb\"<\/a>On 26 Oct \u00a0the Club’s “Health” team held an evening called \u201cMake it Better Please\u201d <\/strong>with speaker Paul Regan from Health Watch Hertfordshire<\/a>\u00a0(the independent consumer champion for health and social care in Hertfordshire)\u00a0and John Wigley from the St Albans & Harpenden Patient Group<\/a>\u00a0(This group was established to ensure that local people and\u00a0organisations\u00a0have a voice in health and social care matters). With all the changes from the implementation of the Clinical Commissioning Groups and more to come in social care the evening included some lively discussions! John provided a handout which can be downloaded here:\u00a0St Albans And Harpenden Patients Group Talk Oct 2015<\/a><\/address>\n

Pictured here with John Wigley are Health Team Members Helen Byrne, Jean Eaton, Sheila Chadwick, Joan Williams and Pamela Rochford.<\/p>\n

Report of the evening by Pamela Rochford:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had two speakers; the first was\u00a0 Paul Regan, the communications officer from Healthwatch Hertfordshire<\/strong>.\u00a0 Paul distributed packs to us all (Make Your Voice Count) which contained his power point presentation.\u00a0He explained how Hertfordshire Healthwatch is a consumer champion- they represent our opinions at the decision making level.\u00a0 Their representations are driven by what people of Hertfordshire tell them. They are a statutory organisation, and\u00a0 commissioned by the County Council. They work with voluntary and community sector organisations to ensure the voices of service user and communities are heard and represented.\u00a0They also help people to find information about local health and care services.\u00a0They are able to influence the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); the CCG is not too good at communicating but this is improving.<\/p>\n

Paul talked about their issues of concern, and that at present there were 57 projects they were working on. He talked about how they were involving young people.\u00a0One of the projects he talked about was the \u2018enter and view\u2019 for care homes.\u00a0 He emphasized they were monitors, not inspectors.\u00a0 There is a summary report of the Care Home Enter and View Visits for 2014 in the pack. There is regular training for volunteers.<\/p>\n

email:\u00a0 info@healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul gave examples of how they had the power to influence care in the community.\u00a0 What is working well and issues are identified.\u00a0\u00a0 All the information is on the website. www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk\/<\/a>\u00a0– there will be stakeholder panel on\u00a04th of December which people can attend.<\/p>\n

The second speaker was John Wigley, chair of the St Albans and Harpenden Patients Group.<\/strong>\u00a0 John provided a handout which can be downloaded here:\u00a0St Albans And Harpenden Patients Group Talk Oct 2015<\/a>\u00a0This is a ginger group. It is difficult for ordinary patients to make an impact on the system.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Group tries to put patients point of view to the bureaucracy. A new pair of eyes. On member sits on St Albans District Council, one on the local practitioners committee.\u00a0He said that the patient and the public were the same- all members of the public were at some time patients.\u00a0He gave as an example the Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) cafe, and said the CCG organiser should at a future date report back on what was achieved at the cafe and any changes that arose.\u00a0He mentioned that you need to treat people with consideration to get them involved.<\/p>\n

The group was represented at the workshop on the 15th of August, for Your Care, Your Future; what is good about health in hospitals and GPs in West Hertfordshire. More information on the vision for the future \u2013 including the full strategic outline case \u2013 is available here: http:\/\/www.yourcareyourfuture.org.uk\/vision-for-the-future\/<\/a>\u00a0The vision is a result of months of engagement with local people: patients, service users, carers, clinicians and other stakeholders. More information on this engagement is available here: http:\/\/www.yourcareyourfuture.org.uk\/get-involved\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John said that now was the time to \u2018pile in\u2019 with proposals-strategies to keep people healthy.\u00a0 This will leave more money available for unavoidable illnesses. The Patients Group holds puplic meetings to which everyone is invited and there is a newsletter every month.\u00a0 They support Healthwatch Hertfordshire.\u00a0John suggested issues that Soroptimists could get involved with addressing: he felt there were gender inequalities which should be addressed in the system, (see Gender Matters in the Local Health System handout) and gave an example of one potential project to do with women and alcohol abuse.\u00a0 According to Public Health England, alcohol related deaths for women are higher in St Albans than in the rest of England. This falls into the category for a prevention strategy.\u00a0Women are more likely to be treated for mental health problems than men, but there are more suicides among men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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