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Reflections from Peoples Board meeting 18/07/19
Written by Peoples Board member, Adam Deacon Today’s PB (People’s Board) meeting was a productive one, which raised many challenging issues, not least for the PB, health professionals, and the general public to carefully consider the immediate consequences and serious implications to meeting health needs. My personal reflections, will hopefully bring some useful insight into what’s needed to address the most essential issues. THE REPORT Twice this year, PB members met outside of their standard monthly meetings, to discuss the content and presentation of our pending annual Report. Sam had been… Read More
Looking Forward – Reflections from the People’s Board Development Day 11th April 2019
People’s Board Development Day 11th April 2019 – Reflections by Co-Vice Chair, Sam Samociuk Well we think the ‘B’ thing is hard to work out – try making sense of the patient’s voice in shaping Health and Social Care service development! Here is a flavour of the areas discussed today. Who or what is engaging with whom around the national priorities? Is there anything for the PB to do in helping those priorities to be met? Are some things better dealt with elsewhere? What priorities do we have? Should they be the… Read More
First thoughts from Claire
People’s Board member, Claire Weaver talks about her early impressions on joining the Board and what it was like to be part of the procurement process for the new carers contract in Bradford District. One of the concerns I had when I joined the People’s Board was that public engagement might be a ‘tick the box’ exercise for the decision makers at the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), but I am pleased to report that my experiences even in my short time with the People’s Board show that there is a genuine commitment… Read More
UnPoetic License
Personal Reflections on Peoples Board Meeting January 2019 by Sam Samociuk A visiting Lay member from AWC, I wonder what she’s come here to see? A group of ‘patients’ chewing the cud? How will that do anybody any good? We’re here to discuss the best ways to engage, With whom and where and at what stage, We’re here to be told how ‘cowology’ is needed, To test out the products that are sorely needed. All in all we do it quite well, but enlarging our reach needs a new sort of spell,… Read More
The People’s Board are Recruiting!
The time is right to expand the People’s Board to cover the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven area.