Report: My voice counts, Southwark
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NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Healthwatch Southwark (HWS) worked together to deliver a joint public event aimed at young people on 12th April 2016. The CCG’s main purpose for the event was to engage with young people from Southwark to discuss some of the health issues they face and work with them to discuss potential solutions. The feedback captured at this event will help inform the CCG priorities for the commissioning of health services in the future. HWS’s main purpose was to continue talking with young people about their experience of using sexual health and mental health services in Southwark.
The following actions were planned by Healthwatch Southwark and presented as follows:
• To share this report on the CCG and HWS website to download.
• The CCG will present a summary of the event and the findings from the event to the CCG’s Governing Body Members.
• HWS will share findings of this report with relevant stakeholders.
• The CCG will incorporate the findings from the event into the Children and Young Person’s Wellbeing Strategic Framework.
• The CCG and HWS will communicate the findings and outcomes of the event back to the event participants.
• The CCG will commence planning the next engagement activities for the strategic framework, including: o A programme of work with 24 young people from The Challenge to look at further developing solutions and to raise awareness of local services o Engagement with schools in Southwark using film of the theatre production and spoken word artist to start developing solutions o Engagement with smaller, more focussed groups of children and young people and their families – for example CYP with special educational needs, youth offenders, etc.
• HWS will work with the voluntary and community sector to carry out further engagement with young people around our priority areas of mental health and sexual health.
• HWS will engage parents and families around some of the emerging themes from our work with young people. • HWS will support and work with NHS Southwark CCG and Southwark Council in their future plans around health and care of children and young people.