27.10.15
Eleven health groups to showcase engagement work using NHS England grants
NHS England has award community grants to 11 organisations deemed to be leading the way through pioneering ideas of how to get patients and the public involved in shaping healthcare services.
The grants, totalling £10,000, are designed to both recognise innovations in the sector and to enable these projects to be showcased as a source of inspiration to other health groups.
The 11 winners will use the funding to develop a range of promotional resources to display the work they have done, such as short films and books.
They will share personal experiences of working with a variety of people – from youngsters to homeless citizens – to improve health services targeted at those who need them the most.
The resources will be shared through NHS England’s website as well as local and national networks to help health and voluntary sector organisations across England to mirror the successful engagement work in their own projects.
The prizes were awarded to the following organisations:
- Mind in Brighton and Hove’s LiVE Project: Supporting people with lived experience of mental health issues to develop diverse and varied approaches to engagement to help shape local services
- The Neuromuscular Centre (NMC): Using creative patient and public engagement in social auditing and accounting approaches to drive service improvements
- Young Epilepsy: Engaging young people to share their experiences of living with epilepsy, and their opinions about the services that impact on them
- My Life My Choice: Demonstrating how people with learning disabilities have become engaged with improving healthcare services in Oxfordshire
- St George’s Crypt: Highlighting how engaging with homeless communities and benefitting from the expertise of strategic partners can bring about person-led well evidenced service improvements
- South Yorkshire Housing Association: A user-led quality assurance network which empowers patients to improve the quality of health and social care services. It’s designed, delivered, evaluated and governed by people with lived experience of these services
- Healthwatch Newcastle: Demonstrating how engagement work with children and young people influenced and improved dental services
- Healthy Me Healthy Communities, Manchester: Using creative “community conversations” to develop local health and well-being action plans
- Royal Mencap Society: Showcasing the approaches to consultation work that the Hull Self advocacy group used to influence improvements with the City Health Partnership
- York Mind, York: Hearing the voice of people with learning disabilities through creative engagement
- Healthwatch Brighton & Hove & the Jaffa Panel (Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Trust):
Patients and the public helping shape and design NHS health research
Source: NHS England