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Healthwatch Norfolk presentation 22.5.13 UEA
- 1. Challenges and opportunities: the mire of navigating health and social services via Norfolk HealthWatchDate
- 2. Summary How Times Have Changed? What we have Now What is Healthwatch and how does it fit in? The Challenges The Opportunities
- 3. How Times Have Changed โ 1948โฆโฆโฆ.
- 4. What We Have Now
- 5. So What is Healthwatch and How does it fit in? Healthwatch is the new independent consumer champion created to gather and represent the views of the public. Healthwatch will play a role at both national and local level and will make sure that the views of the public and people who use services are taken into account. Healthwatch will give people a powerful voice in Norfolk and nationally. Healthwatch Norfolk will work to help local people get the best out of their local health and social care services. Whether it's improving them today or helping to shape them for tomorrow. Local Healthwatch is all about local voices being able to influence the delivery and design of local services. Not just people who use them, but anyone who might need to in future
- 7. Norfolk residents Healthwatch Norfolk Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Groups Social Care Commissioners Public Health commissioners NCC Complaints to NHS/County council The Opportunities
- 8. To Concludeโฆโฆโฆโฆ.. By :- - having a collective voice and - being able to build on a strong and connected Norfolk voluntary sector It will: - - provide us with a methodology to counter too-ready NHS and other provider claims that things are going well if they arenโt and hold them more accountable So How Can You Help? - Through community-academic research collaborations, we will be able to provide evidence and evaluations to review and challenge claims
- 9. Thank you for Listening. Contact Details: Healthwatch Norfolk Rowan House, 28, Queens Road, Hethersett, Norwich, Norfolk NR9 3DB Tel: 01603 813904 Email: Enquiries@healthwatchnorfolk.co.uk www.healthwatchnorfolk.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- A whistle stop tour. The NHS was born in 48. The 50sโ saw radical breakthroughs:-Crick and Watson - DNA breakthroughPolio and Diptheria Vaccinations introducedThe 60โs started to look at what had been unleased resulting in Enoch Powelllโs Hospital Plan, the Salmon Report & the Cogwheel ReportThe 70โs & 80โs saw more major clinical breakthroughs โ CT scanning, test tube babies, 1st heart, lung and liver transplant, is t national campaign centred on AIDS,endorphin discovery, and the introduction of the word wellbeing into the vernacular The 90โs - NHS and Community Care Act โ Launch of NHS DirectThe Naughties bore witness to the advent of Walk in Centres, PCG to PCTs, the 1st Foundation Trusts were created, introduction of the NHS Constitution and finallyโฆin 2012 โ Health and Social Care Act received Royal Assent
- And the funding arrangements become even more complexIn an article in the BMJ on the 21st January 2011, Sir David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, described the reorganisation as the biggest change management programme in the worldโthe only one so large โthat you can actually see it from space.โOf the annual 4% efficiency savings expected of the NHS over the next four years, the Commons health select committee said, โThe scale of this is without precedent in NHS history; and there is no known example of such a feat being achieved by any other healthcare system in the world.
- The underlying concept behind Healthwatch is to: -Help the public to shape and improve the services you use.Engage with people in the communityBe an an open organisation thereby making it easy for people to talk to usBe inclusive - we want people from every part of your community to join usEncourage people to ask us what we're doing & let them know what weโre up toBe held to account and let people know what differences we have madeBe the voice of ensuring that services improve.Notice the bad and the goodAll of work will be underpinned with a sound evidence base - We will be using your evidence to build a true picture of your local services
- In essence, the challenge is to help service users navigate through the confusion. Whilst I fully recognise that I have concentrated on the new Health structures, Social Care is no different and is equally bureaucratic, in fact for the uninitiated, almost impossible. Those who need to access services often feel isolated. Despite the fact that there is always talk about user involvement in design and commissioning, it is frequently rhetoric and tokenistic. For those who are marginalised, e.g., homeless, people with severe disabilities, people with aphasia, BME communities who donโt have English as a primary language, they feel as if they are being left out in the wilderness We need to open the closed culture of health and social care services in order to make the most effective use of the resources that we have. We need to recognise the diversity of service users differing experiences and not be afraid to have the awkward conversations. Above all, we need to ensure that any evidence we produce is credible, reliable and accurate in order to validate and give weight to any recommendations we may make.
- By adopting a collaborative approach between the statutory and non-statutory sectors, recognising our individual strengths and weaknesses, we can work our way through the mire.Local Healthwatch organisations are close to communities, especially those considered hard to reach, we have skills and experience of working with disadvantaged and disenfranchised groups and individuals the community .We are an independent voice, acting as a check or balance to the mainstream We can be flexible and responsive to changing needs We are a means of harnessing community energy and ideas to develop solutions, thereby making a difference In addition, the benefits can be broader than those initially conceived as outcomes and the concept of โsocial accountingโ can and should be used to demonstrate added value. The opportunities are endless, working together, we can deliver high quality, focused and innovative interventions based on a detailed understanding of local and individual needs and can be successful where other interventions may have failed
- We need to both balance and challenge the opportunities, this can be achievedโฆโฆโฆโฆ.