What's Happening on Let's Talk SNEE Newsletter Archive

Watch the Patient Association new animation to learn about shared decision making

The Patient Association are pleased to announce the launch of a short animation that explains shared decision making and how to put it in practice.

You’ll find it on their website https://www.patients-association.org.uk/shared-decision-making-animation

and also their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OWJ5Gst4hk

If you want to find out more please contact the Patient Association’s helpline on 0800 3457115.

New Women’s Health App

ConnectPlus Women’s Health App can provide advice and guidance on:

Breast pain assessment and care

Cervical screening

Contraception

Menopause assessment and treatment

Menstrual problems and assessment and treatment

Pelvic organ prolapse

Pre-conception care

Sexually transmitted infections and HIV

To download the app visit visit https://api.hciconnect.plus/SNEE-WHH/ or scan the QR code

Decision support tools

Decision support tools, also called patient decision aids, support shared decision making by making treatment, care and support options explicit. They provide evidence-based information about the associated benefits/harms and help patients to consider what matters most to them in relation to the possible outcomes, including doing nothing. To find out more about decision support tools visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/shared-decision-making/decision-support-tools/

SNEE Trans* Health Inclusion Network for Care (SNEE THINC)

The transgender, non-binary and gender questioning network for SNEE has co-produced a new name SNEE Trans* Health Inclusion Network for Care (SNEE THINC). We are a growing group of the trans* community and health and care professionals passionate about making positive changes for better inclusion and access to services and have been meeting monthly since April 2024. We also make use of the Let’s Talk SNEE platform to share ideas and have discussion. If you are interested in joining or know someone who might be, please visit this page to find out more and complete the survey to join: https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/tg-nb-gq-network

Health and Wellbeing Webinars

Health and Wellbeing Webinars are online, live video meetings presented by health and wellbeing professionals within their specialist field. Typically, a webinar lasts for an hour or so. They provide great insight, invaluable advice and often includes time for questions.

A project is underway to consider developing a programme of free Health and Wellbeing Webinars to meet the needs of people and communities across Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE). We would be grateful if you could spare a few minutes to complete this short online survey. Your participation really matters as it will help determine whether we run webinars and their content. Thank you.

Find the survey at https://forms.office.com/e/jWHjVMBWf0

End of life care in East of England

In partnership with NHS East of England, Marie Curie is conducting a study to understand the experiences of people in the East of England who:

• are living with a terminal illness.

• are supporting or caring for someone with a terminal illness.

• have been bereaved in the last two years

The findings and insights will be shared with those responsible for making decisions about palliative and end of life care in the East of England – so together we can ensure a better end of life for all.

To share your thoughts please take the survey at

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=w3XVNlNxokq-M_Vi3m1j2WlNhOQ9pshMvyZ4NcQh9TdUM0dPWjZYVzJRNE40QkJHWEpLTkQ2VDJSSi4u

Knowledge and Skills you may need to face serious illness, sudden loss, or bereavement - How much do you know?

We tend not to like to talk about end-of-life care but the more we find out about our choices and options, and where to find support, the better prepared we’ll be.

If you are over 18 years and live in the East of England we invite you to complete this public awareness survey. It contains a series of questions to help you identify areas you may wish to learn more about.

All responses are anonymised. Your participation will help guide improvements to end-of-life care in your area.

To take the survey please go to https://ueapsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eESYQOu0PRi9uZw

If you have any questions or need more information about the survey, then please contact Dr Guy Peryer g.peryer@uea.ac.uk at the University of East Anglia.

Learning Disability Annual Health Check

An annual health check is a yearly check-up which often takes place at your doctor’s surgery. It may also happen at your home in some cases. Having a health check every year can help you find out if you have any health problems you need support with and will give you the opportunity to speak to your GP or nurse.

The Suffolk and North East Essex Joint Forward Plan identifies the need to address health inequalities for people with learning disabilities and autism. One way of doing this is to improve the quality of the annual health checks. Some people have told us of their experiences of having an annual health check and we would like to hear from more people in our communities of their experiences of having an annual health check.

We would like to know what is working well and where things need to be made better. The questionnaires will enable people to

• Share experiences of their annual health check.

• Feedback about what worked well for them and what could be better.

• Help the NHS to know how they could be better supported to attend their annual health check.

A questionnaire is available for people over the age of 14 who have had an annual health check and for anyone caring for or supporting someone with a learning disability.

These questionnaires will help us to make improvements and share positive experiences, as we want all annual health checks to be good.

Where can I find the questionnaire?

Your surgery will send you a link to the ‘Let’s Talk SNEE’ platform where the questionnaire will be available to complete online. The questionnaire is for you and/or anyone that cares or supports you. Please do not share it with anyone else.

Suffolk Suicide Prevention Action Plan

Suffolk County Council’s Public Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Team is asking people to support the development and delivery of our suicide prevention action plan.

In Suffolk, working aged men are at the highest risk of suicide. We want to focus our efforts over the next 12 months to improve the experience of working aged men in Suffolk, and we need your help.

We are seeking volunteers to help shape our approach – could that be you?

Working groups are being set up to tackle the following areas:

• Awareness Raising, Information, Advice and Guidance

• Risk Reduction

• Crisis Support

You may also wish to become a member of the Suffolk Suicide Prevention Partnership – a virtual forum where you can receive information about the programme and the progress we make.

So, if you are a working aged man living or working in Suffolk and you would like to be part of a conversation to improve the wellbeing of men we are waiting to hear from you.

Please send an email to publicmentalhealth@suffolk.gov.uk to express your interest.

If you are interested in getting involved in the above research project, please contact Debbie direct at D.Dyer2@UOS.AC.UK please do NOT contact SNEE ICB.

Advance Care Planning Awareness and Action Day

A national day highlighting the importance of Advance Care Planning – find out more at www.letstalksnee.co.uk/eol-advance-care-planning-awareness-and-action-day

NMC and Advanced Practice and Additional Regulation

Your views will make a big difference to this important work. If you’d like to be kept up to date with the progress of the NMC and be notified of any opportunities to get involved, including when the NMC consult on any changes, please https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/129A-120W/advanced-practice

GMC launches consultation on how it regulates physician associates and anaesthesia associates

In December 2024, the GMC will start regulating physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs). The GMC consultation on proposed rules, standards and guidance that set out how GMC will regulate anaesthesia associates (AAs) and physician associates (PAs) is now open.

GMC welcome responses from public, patient representative groups, and any other individuals or organisations who are likely to be affected by, or use, GMC processes governing the regulation of AAs and PAs.

The consultation runs for eight weeks until midnight on the night of Monday 20 May.

Visit the GMC website for more information and details of how you can take part: https://www.gmc-uk.org/pa-and-aa-regulation-hub/regulating-aas-and-pas-consultation

NHS App

Keep updated on everything NHS App

NHSE Digital have created an update to make it easy for anyone outside the NHS with an interest in the NHS App to stay informed, such as charity workers, councillors, volunteers, etc.

If you know anyone who would like this update, please share this short form with them to sign up: https://forms.office.com/e/Z2XDgksvXx

New: NHS App Walk Through Videos

You can find step-by-step videos showing you how to use the redesigned NHS App in this toolkit which can be found at https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-app/toolkit/walk-through-videos

Use these guidance videos to:

• learn how different NHS App services look from your patient's perspective
• demonstrate the app to patients and the public
• promote the app with your network, and on your website and display screens