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  • 10 January 2025

    Recording and sharing health and social care information

    We want to hear from you! Your experiences and opinions matter when it comes to shaping health and care services. We’re asking for your input on how well you feel health and social care professionals communicate to support you in making the right decisions about your care.

    Your insights are vital in helping us improve how vital health and social care information is recorded and shared, making the process smoother and more empowering for everyone.

    Take our survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/38178/survey-tools/42736 to share your experiences with us - together we can make a real difference in shaping better care for all.


    Developing guidance for patients, service users or family carers on reward, recognition and remuneration

    Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Partnership have been working with the Patients Association on behalf of the East of England Integrated Care Boards to develop a survey that we can all circulate within our Integrated Care Systems to gather feedback from patients, service users and carers on their views on reward, recognition and remuneration. The feedback will help inform some principles that each Integrated Care Board can consider when developing their own policies for involvement. The link to the survey is below and the closing date is the 31st January:

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/635BQSQ?utm_source=ehq_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ehq-PPG-Network-Newsletter--8-January-2025


    Other projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE

    An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex – go to

    www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group

    Community workshops - 'Change NHS' – go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs


    Other projects being run by our Integrated Care System partners:

    Good Things Foundation help people do more online

    They are looking at how to make people feel more confident to use digital health services, including things like:

    • making a GP appointment online,

    • a video call with a doctor / nurse,

    • using the NHS app or other health apps.

    They have been working with people who have faced difficulties doing things online to understand their concerns about digital health services and want to gather views from more people on ideas for a tool to help address these concerns.

    Online discussions are being held as follows:

    20th or 21st January for community members

    16th or 22nd January for healthcare staff

    They also have an online survey running throughout January.

    To register your interest for one of the online discussions or to take the survey go to https://forms.gle/QoSQhpbCtCnW5Go46

    To participate, you don't have to have lots of experience using digital health services as a patient or as a healthcare worker. It's fine just to be interested in this topic and to want to help make digital health services easier to access.

    For participants who are not healthcare staff, we can offer a shopping voucher as a thank you for your time.

    Linked here are documents with more information about getting involved in the project:

    More information for community members: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KueztphEixgor_ljimnCb_-pPyb5JUKv/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true

    More information for healthcare staff: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eRayJjkwXFZOtVDGZ1WqkS7mmhzSvWw3/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true

    Easy read version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9bj2NMwZJANbzKwudTLyVUH0EelOjox/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true

    Making Suicide Prevention Everybody's Business Webinar Series

    Relationships Thursday 23rd January 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM GMT

    As part of Public Health’s Suicide Prevention Team commitment to making suicide prevention everybody's business, this is the first in a series of webinars that will explore various themes and issues that can impact individuals and prompt them to consider taking their own lives.

    Making suicide prevention everybody's business is crucial because it's the interactions people have with each other that have the potential to make a real difference. This month, the focus is on relationship issues. The webinar will reflect on how important it is for those who interact with individuals struggling in this area to have suicide risk on their radar, whether in a professional or personal context.

    In order to get the most from it you are encouraged to attend the webinar live if you are able but if you’re not able to it will be able to view as a download. Speakers are from Suffolk Mind, Epicdads, and the National Mediation Service.

    Please register at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62ee7ccf-857a-4ab3-8cb1-22e4dc8badbc@109c6aec-5046-4a95-8f3c-84f63ba18af4


    The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are also still open:

    SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2

    Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health

    Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective

    We love to hear from you

    Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us

  • 3 January 2025

    Happy New Year from the Let’s Talk SNEE team

    An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex

    Following our People and Communities Insight and Oversight workshop in November last year work is progressing and there are developments planned for the coming year. To find out more visit www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group where you can also sign up to get involved, (if you have not already done so) at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/36621/survey-tools/40744

    Community workshops - 'Change NHS'

    Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System is working with other NHS areas in the East of England to include people from different communities in the ‘Change NHS’ national campaign. Information about the campaign can be found at https://change.nhs.uk including more ways to share your views.

    Two workshops are being held to gather views about how the Government would like the NHS to change over the next ten years:

    Wednesday 29th January 2025 - 6pm - 8pm (online) - for people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, transgender, non-binary or questioning their gender identity or sexuality, intersex people, and any other LGBTQIA+ identities, as well as their family carers.

    Date, time and venue to be confirmed - People who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, and their family carers.

    For more information and to sign up for either workshop go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs

    The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are still open:

    SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2

    Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health

    Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective

    We love to hear from you

    Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us

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