dccg-engagement

Written by Casey Townsend Engagement and Communications Coordinator casey.townsend@dorsetccg.nhs.uk   Bringing Health and Social Care Staff Together – Thursday 29 November 2018 Staff working in health and social care in Dorset have been invited to attend this event to showcase and celebrate positive changes across our health and care system. There will be a focus on work that staff do in partnership on a daily basis. Staff attending the event include those who work in care homes and as care workers in people’s own homes, those who provide care in hospitals and those who manage those workloads and co-ordinate that care. [...]

Written by Casey Townsend Communications and Engagement Coordinator at Dorset CCG casey.townsend@dorsetccg.nhs.uk I will be regularly updating this page to tell you more about the Integrated Care System Public Engagement Project. If you don't know anything about this project, please read on because I will explain more about it in straightforward terms. This project is part of a wider movement to join up the way that your local NHS, Councils and Voluntary organisations work together. This project, which is being funded and supported by NHS England, is to improve the way in which we all communicate with the public, and the way [...]

 It has been a year since the start of our Public Engagement Group, aka, The PEG. The group is made up of 25 local people. They have a wealth of lived-experience across Dorset’s geography, demography and diversity.  They meet bi-monthly to provide advice, guidance and challenge across a huge variety of areas. The PEG started in 2017, as an important part of Dorset's Integrated Care System. This means services provided by the local authorities and the NHS working in a more joined up, coherent way. As part of this, the Engagement Leads from across health and social care came together [...]

In July this year we won the “Improving Patient & Community Engagement”, Healthcare Transformation Award 2018.   This was specifically for the Integrated Care System in Dorset. The award was for the key role that the PEG (and its predecessor the Clinical Services Review Patient (Carer) and Public Engagement Group) have played in supporting system wide integrated public engagement.  Below you can see... Pauline (our Head of Communications and Engagement), Frances (Engagement and Communications Lead) and Ian (Chair of our PEG).