Healthwatch Salford - Our Priorities - October 2020 to March 2021
Currently, Healthwatch Salford are working to capture patient’s experiences of health and care to aid the management of the response to the coronavirus pandemic locally in the city of Salford. Healthwatch Salford are also working with stakeholders to ensure people have the best possible information about the effect of COVID-19 on changes to health and care service.
Their work plan has been developed to run from October 2020 – March 2021 and includes the following priorities:
- Care in the Community and COVID-19 – Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic our board identified Care in the Community as a key priority area for our work programme.
- Doing Things Differently – Due to COVID-19, Healthwatch Salford have had to change their normal ways of working. Moving forward over the next 6 months they will continue to build on their partnership working.
- Opportunities Fund – Healthwatch Salford will provide a small grants scheme that enables groups to apply for two pots of funds which will include Healthwatch Salford Network fund or the Opportunities Fund which will be used to deliver digital projects that enhance and promote health and wellbeing within local communities.
- Patient feedback – Triangulation of data – COVID-19 has highlighted the need to listen to the patient’s lived experience and use their feedback to help shape services across the Salford City.
Due to coronavirus (COVID-19) like many organisations we have had to change the way we work, but this has also given us the opportunity to review our workplans and update you on how we’re responding to the challenges.
Healthwatch Salford have now developed a revised work plan in response to COVID-19 to ensure that patient experience continues to shape local health and care services following changes brought by the pandemic. The team, and I are looking forward to implementing the revised workplan and continuing to be the independent voice of local people in challenging and influencing health and social care provision in the City of Salford.
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