dccg-engagement

#GetInvolved with your Patient Participation Group 10th - 15th June is Patient Participation Group Awareness Week. Surgeries all around the country will be taking part by raising the profile of their Patient Participation Groups (PPGs). Patient groups enable patients to be involved in influencing the way local health services are delivered. Anyone can join a patient group and most GP surgeries in Dorset have them. Some GP practices have groups that meet in person up 3 or 4 times a year, others have virtual groups. Patient groups work with their GP surgery in a number of ways. They help to promote [...]

Its nearly our due date! You 'got involved’ in developing our new ‘Maternity Matters Dorset’ website which is shortly due to launch. Following the national Better Births review in 2016, the NHS in Dorset sought the views of over 600 families to find out how we could best support them. They told us they wanted ‘one trusted source of local information, information for dads and partners and one place to self-refer’. In response, we worked with local families, midwives, health visitors, our ‘Maternity Voices’ representatives and partner organisations, to co-design the ‘Maternity Matters Dorset’ website - an online guide to pregnancy, [...]

    Written by Frances Aviss Senior Public Engagement Lead at NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group   Just 10 Steps! After two jam-packed days in Bristol and Taunton I am really excited to have completed NHS England’s train-the-trainer course to enable me to deliver “10 steps to even better public engagement”. It’s really important to me to help people understand why meaningful engagement is so important and to be able to support staff and public representatives in developing their public engagement knowledge and skills. I’m really excited by this clear and comprehensive one-day training course. It will complement the 4-day co-design [...]

Dorset Race Equality Council (DREC) Health Ambassadors In December 2018 Dorset Race Equality Council (DREC) hosted the first meeting of a new health ambassador network – a group of people from different ethnic backgrounds who are very active in their respective communities. DREC and the CCG meet with them three to four times a year, which helps the CCG reach out into their communities and help them communicate key messages about health and care services in Dorset and to explore views, needs and understanding of service provision and development. At the first meeting the group spoke about access to health services [...]

Our Supporting Stronger Voices (SSV) Forum was originally designed to enable NHS Dorset CCG to support, inform and involve patient, carer and public representatives from the key community, voluntary and local authority groups that we worked with. Working with Our Dorset Public Engagement Group colleagues in 2018, we reviewed the membership of the group to ensure that all the communities and groups that they worked with were included. Amongst many others, representative town and parish councillors and hospital public governors were invited to join. The objectives of our Supporting Stronger Voices forum are: • the opportunity for public, patient, carer and [...]