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Local Healthwatch organizations will be established in April 2013 to give citizens and communities a stronger voice in influencing local health and social care services. Local Healthwatch will take over functions from existing LINk organizations, including community engagement, identifying issues with commissioned services, and reporting on local concerns. They will also have new responsibilities like providing information on services and helping people access and choose care. Healthwatch England will oversee Local Healthwatch and can escalate issues to the Care Quality Commission. The goal is for Healthwatch to effectively involve children, young people, and disadvantaged communities in shaping local services.
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Healthwatch Presentation
- 1. Healthwatch Leicester & Leicestershire Ben Smith, Voluntary Action LeicesterShire 6 February 2013
- 2. Healthwatch – What is it? • Healthwatch will be the new consumer champion for both health and social care services • It will exist in two distinct forms: – Local Healthwatch – Healthwatch England
- 3. Local Healthwatch – What is it? • The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out that local Healthwatch’s will be established in April 2013 • Local Healthwatch will give citizens and communities a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and social care services are provided within their locality
- 4. Local Healthwatch – What will it do? Build on existing LINk functions : Community involvement and engagement Local intelligence on commissioned services and identifying issues and gaps Reporting on local issues and collective views Working with hard to reach communities Access to existing networks and partnerships
- 5. Local Healthwatch – What will it do? New functions : Signposting and information on health and social care services Help people to access and make choices about care Equality & Diversity monitoring Escalate issues nationally through Healthwatch England
- 6. Healthwatch England • Healthwatch England will provide leadership, guidance and support to local Healthwatch organisations • Healthwatch England will be able to escalate concerns about health and social care services raised by local Healthwatch to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) • There will be a requirement for the CQC to respond to advice from Healthwatch England
- 7. Why is Local Healthwatch Important? • Healthwatch is being established to give local communities a bigger say in how health and social care services are planned, commissioned, delivered and monitored • We want to ensure that Heathwatch is able to effectively involve children and young people from the start.
- 8. How can we engage with CYP Volunteers? We need your help to engage with children and young people across Leicester and Leicestershire. We want to see : •Local Healthwatch effectively involving children and young people in their work, including those who are most disadvantaged •Local Healthwatch having access to the capacity and skills to work with children and young people •Children and young people being well represented in local Healthwatch •Local Healthwatch representatives sitting on Health and Well-being boards being sufficiently knowledgeable to champion local children and young people's views
- 9. Over to you . . .
- 10. Over to you . . .
Editor's Notes
- So this is an introduction to Healthwatch. We’ll look at what Healthwatch is What it will do And we’ll look at the role for Children and Young People as volunteers
- Healthwatch will give people across England a new way to engage with their local health and social care services. Everything that local Healthwatch does will bring the voice and influence of local people to the development and delivery of local services. We need Healthwatch to make as big an impact on the public as possible, particularly those who have not had their voices heard and those who suffer the poorest health and social care outcomes.
- Every upper tier Local Authority has a statutory responsibility to commission a Local Healthwatch service for their area. Leicestershire County Council have confirmed that they have awarded the Healthwatch Leicestershire contract to VAL and we are awaiting official confirmation from Leicester City Council regarding their commissioning decision. (It’s VAL!) It will not just be citizens who can join Healthwatch Leicester or Healthwatch Leicestershire – organisations will be able to join as well. I’d encourage you all to ensure that your organisation signs up to become a member of local healthwatch. It’s our biggest opportunity to highlight and tackle health inequalities and we can’t afford to miss it. Other elements of the Health & Social Care Act – CCG’s - Health & Wellbeing Boards – Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies
- These are functions that have been provided by the Local Involvement Networks although the success has been limited.
- These are the new functions that local Healthwatch will provide. Important not to loose sight of the aims on the previous slide – One of the key challenges will be to engage with communities and service users who are seen as “hard to reach”
- One of the key differences between the LINks and Healthwatch will be the support provided by Healthwatch England. They will be able to ensure that all local Healthwatchs have the power to make a sustained, positive difference to their members.
- We believe that Children have a right to be listened to on issues that affect them, yet their voices have historically been underrepresented in the planning and design of health services. Healthwatch offers an opportunity to put this right. Properly involving children and young people in planning and monitoring health services not only empowers them and develops life skills but makes for better and more efficient services.
- To achieve all this – we need your help and support. This is the chance to make the biggest difference to health and social care services for children and young people. We can’t afford to get it wrong!