NHS Long Term Plan Focus Group Report: Be Cancer Safe Event
What did they do?
Be Cancer Safe pre-arranged to attend the Community Engagement Event. They took along, banners, leaflets, information on the Long Term Plan and hard copies of the SY&B Survey.
During the networking opportunity they gathered a small group of residents and took part in an activity where they gave each person 20 billion pounds and asked them if they were in charge of the NHS where would they spend the money.
- Clinical Priorities – cancer, cardiovascular disease, maternity and neonatal health, stroke, diabetes, respiratory care.
- Resources – finance, productivity, staffing
- Acute Services – urgent treatment services, GP led facilities, multidisciplinary clinical assessment.
- Primary & Community Care – Primary Care Networks, digital services, developing fully integrated community based healthcare.
- Mental Health & Learning Disabilities – Children & Young People, transitions of care, community mental health treatment, 24/7 support. This saw many residents interacting with each other, who had not previously met – deciding on how to spend that amount of money is very thought provoking and sometimes you need to question your decision!
Conclusion from Be Cancer Safe
It is important that we speak to a variety of residents to discover what the NHS means to them and what they would like to see happening with health and social care services. Many of the residents realise that there is no blank cheque and the money has to be spent wisely to ensure we can provide a good health service to future generations. Many of the decisions taken are personal and reflect that individuals experience of the NHS, for example if a resident had experienced heart problems and had received good care they would in the first instance place their 20 billion into Clinical Priorities as a pay back for the good care they received in their hour of need. Once we opened up the conversation and other people had their say often the money would 5 then be divided – many commenting that there was not enough money to go round the different priorities. The exercise definitely made residents think about the enormity of the task being faced by NHS England.
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