Board Meeting April 2021 Community Engagement

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Board Meeting April 2021 Community Engagement
Board Meeting April 2021
Community Engagement
Board Meeting April 2021 Community Engagement
Core Community Engagement Strategy
                                                    2021-22

          Calls for Evidence                                            Staff Led
   ✓ Use Comms officer to fill evidence                                                                                   Enter & View
   gaps and promote events (utilise social                        Community Listening Tour                            Ensuring we reach people
                 media)                                                                                                  that can’t reach us
                                                       Led by Community Engagement Lead and Community                  e.g inpatient MH, care
                                                       Engagement & Admin Officer, supported by local area                      home
                                                       volunteer teams                                                 ✓ 1 per ICP / Area p.a
     Volunteer Led Engagement
  ✓ Outside of the staff led engagement
                                                       •     GP
        Volunteers to raise awareness
                                                       •     Hospital
    amongst those that are seldom heard
                                                       •     Community
     / disadvantaged in their local areas
                                                       •     Public
                   of Surrey
                                                       •     VCFS
               Local Groups;
          • G&W, SH, NWS,ES, SD
                                                       •     Focused                                                    Community Cash
                                                       •     Social Care                                                  Fund 2021
   (NEHF is carried out with SH & G&W)
                                                                                                                            ✓ Building
                                                       ✓     Above model is carried out per ICP, per month                   relationships
                                                             inc. deprived wards. Each area is visited bi-              ✓ Raising awareness
                                                             annually with exception of NWS & GW who will be           ✓ Building our contact
         Outreach & Projects                                 visited tri-annually
                                                                                                                               database
    ✓ Organise and raise awareness
       amongst seldom heard groups
      (Project & Engagement Officer)
  ✓ Projects - These are focused around
          our Thematic priorities                                                                       Independent
                                                             Citizen
           (Research Officer)                                                      Helpdesk                Health
                                                             Advice
                                                           Partnership            Partnership            Complaints
                                                                                                          Advocacy

✓ We will gather 3,000 UEX from all of our Evidence sources p.a
Board Meeting April 2021 Community Engagement
Engagement during pandemic

 April – June 2020

Where / What             When        Summary                  Outcomes

Foodbanks                May 2020    Flyer insert into food   Awareness raising; Call
                                     parcels at 5 major       for experiences
                                     foodbanks
Action for Carers via    June 2020   We heard how             Signposted user to
Zoom                                 pandemic was directly    Virtual Safe Haven
Engagement                           affecting carers with    after getting
                                     day centre closures      permission for user to
                                     and face to face not     accompany daughter
                                     possible

                         June 2020   Cancer / MH /            Awareness raising; Call
Bespoke Flyer activity               Maternity shared         for experiences
                                     through VCFS & Faith
                                     networks
Engagement during pandemic
            July – September 2020
Where / What                When          Summary                              Outcomes
Bespoke flyers              July 2020     BAME / Young People / Carers         Awareness raising; Call for
                                          distributed through VCFS             experiences – led to
                                          network                              engagement with MelaNoMore
                                                                               & Blossom
MelanNoMore via Zoom        August 2020   Impact due to remote consults,       Got really good experiences
Engagement                                isolation, impact of cancellations   from G&W area, raised
                                                                               awareness of HWSy

                            August 2020   Pandemic impact on young             Got really good experiences
                                          people’s mental health; remote       from NWS area, raised
Blossom (Pride in Surrey)
                                          consults affect care needed          awareness of HWSy
via Discord
Engagement
Liaise (Women’s centre)     August 2020   Discussion of how lockdown           Insight into how pandemic is
via Zoom                                  comms have been confusing, not       effecting BAME community;
Engagement                                in right language; women             gathering of experiences from
                                          googling symptons to avoid           NWS
                                          accessing care; postponed
                                          treatment; Bangladeshi
                                          community hit hard;
                                          International students effectively
                                          homeless
Redhill Place of worship    August 2020   Some community members               Good intel from ES; awareness
Engagement                                could not obtain face to face        raising
                                          appointments resorting to A&E
                                          instead; Issues around getting
                                          dentistry care and eye care
Engagement during pandemic
      July – September 2020 Continued
Where /      When                 Summary                                    Outcomes
What
Family Voice via   August 2020      We heard about issues with EHCP          Shared this with Children’s
Zoom                                assessment and provision;                Services
Engagement                          exhausting and difficult pathway to
                                    navigate for parents of SEND
                                    children
Age Concern –      August 2020      We understood that there was poor        One service user experience
rare cancer                         understanding of Frontotemperal          shared with SABP
support group                       Dementia, leading to a mis-
(SD)                                diagnosis; lack of support by SS
Engagement
Surrey Heath       September 2020   TILS Mental Health pathway for           Awareness raising; Call for
Veteran Families                    Veterans highlighted; heard how ex       experiences; shared intel with
via Zoom                            military or serving personnel were       FPH & Frimley Trust
Engagement                          often assigned military doctors
                                    within Frimley Trust but this gave
                                    users more anxiety
Mary Frances       September 2020   We heard that appoints online            Got good experiences, signposted
Trust via Zoom                      reduced anxiety / stress re: travel      to bereavement services for two
Engagement                          but that face to face was essential in   people recently lost their mothers
                                    treating mental health
                   September 2020   The group spoke about a new              Awareness raising; Call for
                                    remote app being introduced by           experiences
Camberley
                                    SABP (TIHM), vaccination mis-
Alzheimer Café
                                    comms and patient discussed
Engagement
                                    change of meds without face to face
                                    consult
Engagement during pandemic
        October – December 2020

Where /             When            Summary                               Outcomes
What
SEND Parents        November 2020   We heard about issues with EHCP       Shared this with Children’s
interviews (via                     assessment and provision;             Services
Twitter & phone                     exhausting and difficult pathway
call)                               to navigate for parents of SEND
Engagement                          children
Targeted approach   August 2020     Identified over 50 new virtual        Led to some conversations with
for engagement to                   groups we could try and join / host   Eating disorder group, LD
VCFS                                                                      ‘Include’ where we got some
                                                                          local intel to share; engagement
                                                                          with Diabetes group in 2021
Crest Cancer        November 2020   Ongoing conversations about NWS       Managed to connect Crest with
Support                             patients having issues attending      ASPH Charlotte Brougton to
Engagement                          appointments alone, receiving bad     help ASPH understand local
                                    news without a chaperone; care        community better
                                    delayed resulting in advanced
                                    Cancers
January –March 2021

Where /          When                  Summary                                    Outcomes
What
Guildford &      January 2021          We heard about the Diabetic & eye          Good experiences from G&W area
Waverely                               clinics & Podiatry services in G&W.
Diabetes                               Issue with unsafe discharge into
Support Group                          home (no assessment) and delay in
via Zoom                               being officially discharged resulting in
Engagement                             patient unable to drive or play golf.
                                       Some good intel re: several GPs going
                                       extra mile and seeing patients face to
                                       face
Mary Frances     January 2021          This group discussed feeling pre-          Good experiences gathered and
Trust via Zoom                         judged at GP due to their mental           awareness of HWSy raised again;
Engagement                             health – one patient resulted in mis-      escalation to SCC / ASC for user
                                       diagnosis of heart condition;              with sister in specialist care home;
                                       medication issue – not joined up care      signposted to Advocacy in Surrey
                                       between consultant prescribed meds         for complaint
                                       and GP; care home comms good for
                                       and issue with another user and her
                                       sister’s specialist care home

Action for       February 2021         We heard about lack of patient             We directed people to Gov.Uk
Carers via                             centred care for people with LD.           vaccination booking site (one carer
Zoom                                   Vaccine frustration – location of jab,     booked her vaccine whilst we
Engagement                             communications confusing, carers           chatted) and Surrey Heartlands
                                       wanting vaccine at same time as            Vaccination website FAQs,
                                       person they are caring for but some        informed one that was house
                                       not offered                                bound that they could request
                                                                                  vaccine at home (they were
                                                                                  unaware they could)
Engagement during pandemic
         January –March 2021

Where /               When            Summary                             Outcomes
What

Home Start            February 2021   We conducted several interviews     We heard about positive birth
Elmbridge & NCT                       with group members from Home        experiences from ASPH & mis-
Dorking                               Start & NCT Dorking                 diagnosis of Tongue tie from
Engagement                                                                SASH ESH
interviews

Surrey Heath          March 2021      We attended this group again.       Establishing a good relationship
Veterans & Families                   Heard that vaccination booking      for future meets – good intel
Listening Project                     service was confusing, dislike of   from a group we seldom hear
via Zoom                              sharing medical info with non       from
Engagement                            medical staff, mis comms in
                                      general; issue getting even a
                                      remote consult with Station Rd GP
Wi Cuddington via     March 2021      This lovely group were unaware of   Awareness raising; Call for
Zoom                                  HWSy. Group discussed DNAR and      experiences ; signposting to
Engagement                            vaccination experiences             Helpdesk
Engagement Post-Lockdown April onwards

➢ Community Cash Fund 2021 has launched – end date 14th May – vol
  groups are nominating worthy recipients

➢ Foodbank Care Pack trial Woking Foodbank April / May

➢ Engagement HQ (one stop Engagement hub) is live – We are testing
  functionalities for HWE and reporting back on how we can use this
  hub to engage with public

➢ https://healthwatchsurrey.uk.engagementhq.com

➢ Face to Face engagement - awaiting direction from HWE & PH June
  2021 but potential soft test in high public footfall area such as a high
  street in July Q2

➢ Return to Core Community Engagement strategy hopefully Q3
  September – Dec beginning with G&W, NWS, SH & SD
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