Young People's views on healthecare provision, Camden
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In 2018, Healthwatch Camden collaborated with William Ellis School and LaSWAP to explore the health and social care issues young people aged fifteen to sixteen in Camden think are important and to find out how they would like health professionals and teachers to communicate with them. William Ellis School is a secondary comprehensive school for boys in Highgate and LaSWAP is a sixth form centre comprised of four small, but closely linked sixth forms. With these groups, Healthwatch Camden coproduced a Youth Social Media campaign week.
Healthwatch Camden conducted five focus group sessions with young people. The numbers at the sessions ranged from eleven and seven young people. Their ages ranged from fifteen to sixteen and most attended William Ellis School. They were broadly representative of students at the schools with both males and females participating and different ethnicities and religions.
The students worked as a team to identify the issues most important to them. They also used teamwork to create a video. The views expressed by the students were their own views and they were not prompted by the facilitators. Healthwatch Camden facilitated discussions on health issues and also got the young people to decide how they wanted to express their views in a video and on social media.
Their choice of social media also provided an idea of which social media platforms they frequent.
The young people decided that the three most important health issues to young people in Camden were: workload, body image and drugs. These would be the issues covered in the young people’s videos. The videos were shared on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for five days in order to get as many people as possible to see them.
Healthwatch Camden will show this report and accompanying videos to schools, Camden Council, the Clinical Commissioning Group, decision-makers and other organisations that have a role to play in the delivery of health and social care services in Camden.