Better care together (STP) engagement project
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The Better Care Together (BCT) programme was set up in 2015 with the aim of reviewing health and social care services to help enable people to be as healthy as possible by getting communities more involved in managing their own health and wellbeing. The review is being led by ten health and care organisations across South Cumbria and Morecambe Bay. In early 2018 Healthwatch Cumbria and Healthwatch Lancashire were commissioned by representatives from the BCT Programme for Morecambe Bay to work as a Local Healthwatch Collaborative (LHC) to explore people’s views on the current challenges facing healthcare services across Morecambe Bay. The LHC was to engage with and gather feedback and ideas on what people think could be done to address the challenges facing Morecambe Bay’s healthcare services.
Healthwatch Cumbria and Healthwatch Lancashire visited nine locations across Morecambe Bay and South Cumbria in the ‘Chatty Van’ mobile vehicle to gather feedback on the challenges facing Morecambe Bay’s healthcare services and get ideas for addressing those challenges. The engagement generated 222 responses to an electronic survey, 655 people spoken to face to face and over 200 comments on feedback cards. Analysis of the free text on one-to-one conversations can be found in the body of the report.
A summary of the ranking exercise for each challenge is provided on page 14 and 15 of this report.