Friday 31 January 2014

The Voice

Your Voice

Everywhere we turn everyone is looking seeking opinions and the voice of the patient.

Ourselves we have consulted with the patient group and will be gathering information on our services and then feeding back (as we all should do).

But looking to the wider group how do we collect information, how do we know it’s a good cross section of people and the right questions are being asked. 

This week on twitter I have come across patient experience matters time and again but I ask ‘what matters’   what matters to me may not be what matters to Joanne.  I can attend meetings to voice my opinion at any time, Joanne can’t. Joanne cant drive so in itself can be an obstacle.  Yet Joanne has an opinion as we all know !

So how do we communicate effectively?  Now if we were talking football, especially this weekend with the Derby I dare say easily over 100,000 would have an opinion.  Maybe that’s the answer, relate health to local sport !!! Or if we wish to target ‘the young ones’ why don’t we just gatecrash an event (before they get too excited). Just a thought.

As a CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) we are looking at lots of methods of how we communicate with the people of Sunderland. I can confirm that patients and public are invited to an engagement event on

Tuesday 25th February 2014, 10.15am – 2.00pm
The Quayside Exchange
197 High St East, Sunderland, SR1 2AX


The workshop is being held to seek your views on how Sunderland CCG currently engages with patients and members of the public and to share information on new initiatives for engagement covering

·         The CCG engagement  model
·         Locality Patient Groups
·         Introduction to Sunderland Healthwatch
·         The new CCG website and ‘My NHS’

And guess what, you might see me there.






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