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24 January 2025
Please share experiences of cancer services and support in Suffolk and North East Essex
Would you please spare a few minutes and share your experiences of cancer services and support in Suffolk and North East Essex with Healthwatch Suffolk. Take the survey at https://ow.ly/KJjM50UKgf4 please note that it closes on 27th January 2025.
Other projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE
An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex – go to
www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group
Community workshops - 'Change NHS' – go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs
Recording and sharing health and social care information – goContinue reading
Please share experiences of cancer services and support in Suffolk and North East Essex
Would you please spare a few minutes and share your experiences of cancer services and support in Suffolk and North East Essex with Healthwatch Suffolk. Take the survey at https://ow.ly/KJjM50UKgf4 please note that it closes on 27th January 2025.
Other projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE
An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex – go to
www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group
Community workshops - 'Change NHS' – go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs
Recording and sharing health and social care information – go to
https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/38178/survey-tools/42736
Developing guidance for patients, service users or family carers on reward, recognition and remuneration – go to
The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are also still open:
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
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10 January 2025
Recording and sharing health and social care information
We want to hear from you! Your experiences and opinions matter when it comes to shaping health and care services. We’re asking for your input on how well you feel health and social care professionals communicate to support you in making the right decisions about your care.
Your insights are vital in helping us improve how vital health and social care information is recorded and shared, making the process smoother and more empowering for everyone.
Take our survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/38178/survey-tools/42736 to share your experiences with us - together we can make aContinue reading
Recording and sharing health and social care information
We want to hear from you! Your experiences and opinions matter when it comes to shaping health and care services. We’re asking for your input on how well you feel health and social care professionals communicate to support you in making the right decisions about your care.
Your insights are vital in helping us improve how vital health and social care information is recorded and shared, making the process smoother and more empowering for everyone.
Take our survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/38178/survey-tools/42736 to share your experiences with us - together we can make a real difference in shaping better care for all.
Developing guidance for patients, service users or family carers on reward, recognition and remuneration
Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Partnership have been working with the Patients Association on behalf of the East of England Integrated Care Boards to develop a survey that we can all circulate within our Integrated Care Systems to gather feedback from patients, service users and carers on their views on reward, recognition and remuneration. The feedback will help inform some principles that each Integrated Care Board can consider when developing their own policies for involvement. The link to the survey is below and the closing date is the 31st January:
Other projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE
An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex – go to
www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group
Community workshops - 'Change NHS' – go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs
Other projects being run by our Integrated Care System partners:
Good Things Foundation help people do more online
They are looking at how to make people feel more confident to use digital health services, including things like:
• making a GP appointment online,
• a video call with a doctor / nurse,
• using the NHS app or other health apps.
They have been working with people who have faced difficulties doing things online to understand their concerns about digital health services and want to gather views from more people on ideas for a tool to help address these concerns.
Online discussions are being held as follows:
20th or 21st January for community members
16th or 22nd January for healthcare staff
They also have an online survey running throughout January.
To register your interest for one of the online discussions or to take the survey go to https://forms.gle/QoSQhpbCtCnW5Go46
To participate, you don't have to have lots of experience using digital health services as a patient or as a healthcare worker. It's fine just to be interested in this topic and to want to help make digital health services easier to access.
For participants who are not healthcare staff, we can offer a shopping voucher as a thank you for your time.
Linked here are documents with more information about getting involved in the project:
More information for community members: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KueztphEixgor_ljimnCb_-pPyb5JUKv/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true
More information for healthcare staff: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eRayJjkwXFZOtVDGZ1WqkS7mmhzSvWw3/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true
Easy read version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9bj2NMwZJANbzKwudTLyVUH0EelOjox/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105204034520714527457&rtpof=true&sd=true
Making Suicide Prevention Everybody's Business Webinar Series
Relationships Thursday 23rd January 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
As part of Public Health’s Suicide Prevention Team commitment to making suicide prevention everybody's business, this is the first in a series of webinars that will explore various themes and issues that can impact individuals and prompt them to consider taking their own lives.
Making suicide prevention everybody's business is crucial because it's the interactions people have with each other that have the potential to make a real difference. This month, the focus is on relationship issues. The webinar will reflect on how important it is for those who interact with individuals struggling in this area to have suicide risk on their radar, whether in a professional or personal context.
In order to get the most from it you are encouraged to attend the webinar live if you are able but if you’re not able to it will be able to view as a download. Speakers are from Suffolk Mind, Epicdads, and the National Mediation Service.
Please register at https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62ee7ccf-857a-4ab3-8cb1-22e4dc8badbc@109c6aec-5046-4a95-8f3c-84f63ba18af4
The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are also still open:
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
We love to hear from you
Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us
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3 January 2025
Happy New Year from the Let’s Talk SNEE team
An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex
Following our People and Communities Insight and Oversight workshop in November last year work is progressing and there are developments planned for the coming year. To find out more visit www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group where you can also sign up to get involved, (if you have not already done so) at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/36621/survey-tools/40744
Community workshops - 'Change NHS'
Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System is working with other NHS areas in the East of England to include people from different communities in the ‘Change NHS’ national campaign. Information about the campaign can be found at https://change.nhs.uk including more ways to share your views.
Two workshops are being held to gather views about how the Government would like the NHS to change over the next ten years:
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - 6pm - 8pm (online) - for people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, transgender, non-binary or questioning their gender identity or sexuality, intersex people, and any other LGBTQIA+ identities, as well as their family carers.
Date, time and venue to be confirmed - People who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, and their family carers.
For more information and to sign up for either workshop go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs
The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are still open:
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
We love to hear from you
Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who is interested in health and wellbeing in Suffolk and north east Essex.
If you have received this email from someone else and are not already signed up to Let’s Talk SNEE then we would love for you to join our community. Register here
Happy New Year from the Let’s Talk SNEE team
An update on our work with People and Communities in Suffolk and North East Essex
Following our People and Communities Insight and Oversight workshop in November last year work is progressing and there are developments planned for the coming year. To find out more visit www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group where you can also sign up to get involved, (if you have not already done so) at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/36621/survey-tools/40744
Community workshops - 'Change NHS'
Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System is working with other NHS areas in the East of England to include people from different communities in the ‘Change NHS’ national campaign. Information about the campaign can be found at https://change.nhs.uk including more ways to share your views.
Two workshops are being held to gather views about how the Government would like the NHS to change over the next ten years:
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - 6pm - 8pm (online) - for people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, transgender, non-binary or questioning their gender identity or sexuality, intersex people, and any other LGBTQIA+ identities, as well as their family carers.
Date, time and venue to be confirmed - People who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, and their family carers.
For more information and to sign up for either workshop go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/change-nhs
The following engagement projects, launched in 2024, from our Integrated Care System partners are still open:
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
We love to hear from you
Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who is interested in health and wellbeing in Suffolk and north east Essex.
If you have received this email from someone else and are not already signed up to Let’s Talk SNEE then we would love for you to join our community. Register here
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13 December 2024
Red Tape Challenge - Patients and the public
The Secretary of State for Health and Care, Wes Streeting, and the Chief Executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, have announced a rapid review of how care is coordinated between different parts of the health service. This includes:
- how referrals are made and managed, including waiting lists
- how patients are discharged from hospital or other care providers such as mental health or community services
- how the different parts of the health service communicate safely and effectively with each other and with patients
Things are not as smooth as they could be, andContinue reading
Red Tape Challenge - Patients and the public
The Secretary of State for Health and Care, Wes Streeting, and the Chief Executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, have announced a rapid review of how care is coordinated between different parts of the health service. This includes:
- how referrals are made and managed, including waiting lists
- how patients are discharged from hospital or other care providers such as mental health or community services
- how the different parts of the health service communicate safely and effectively with each other and with patients
Things are not as smooth as they could be, and this review is an opportunity to better understand and find potential solutions to some of the problems. Your perspective on what’s working well, what is working less well, and what you think could be done differently is sought.
Visit https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO4zUGofeA8aBGkpR6pC5xWdxURjA2UFY0N1hET1A2U0ZFQ0lJVVJUNjIzQy4u&route=shorturl to take the survey.
The closing date for the survey is 16 December 2024.Our apologies for the short notice to complete this survey before the closing date, but the Let's Talk SNEE team have only just been made aware of it.
Other engagement projects currently running from our Integrated Care System partners:
Special Education Needs & Disability (SEND) Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
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22 November 2024
Supporting Suffolk’s Armed Forces Community
In Suffolk there are around 3,000 UK Armed Forces Service personnel and similar number of spouses and children. Of the 30,000 Veterans in the county, around 10,000 are of working age.
The Armed Forces Covenant Board has compiled a directory of local services: mental health, welfare, community support and meet-up groups which champions the breath of support from across many partner organisations.
Visit the website: www.suffolkmilitarycovenant.org.uk
Recovery College provides a range of courses on a range of mental health issues. The following free webinars will be broadcast from Ipswich County Library
Monday 2 December,Continue reading
Supporting Suffolk’s Armed Forces Community
In Suffolk there are around 3,000 UK Armed Forces Service personnel and similar number of spouses and children. Of the 30,000 Veterans in the county, around 10,000 are of working age.
The Armed Forces Covenant Board has compiled a directory of local services: mental health, welfare, community support and meet-up groups which champions the breath of support from across many partner organisations.
Visit the website: www.suffolkmilitarycovenant.org.uk
Recovery College provides a range of courses on a range of mental health issues. The following free webinars will be broadcast from Ipswich County Library
Monday 2 December, 2pm–3.30pm - Understanding and Managing Anxiety
Tuesday 3 December, 11am – 12pm – CHIME. This course focuses on the Recovery College framework which covers five key areas.
Tuesday 10 December, 10.30am–12noon - Five Ways to Wellbeing. Exploring the framework used by the NHS
Wednesday 11 December, 10.30am–12.30pm - Exploring Emotions
For more information please contact Jane.Cox@suffolklibraries.co.uk
Booking is not essential but will give you access to the full benefits available from the Recovery College. To book - https://nsft-nhs.heiapply.com/eoi-form/embed/2285
Other engagement projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE from our Integrated Care System partners:
Violence Against Women & Girls strategy for 2025-2028 the Suffolk VAWG Steering Group would like to hear from victim survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence (any gender) in Suffolk to help shape our priorities.
To register for an online or face to face engagement session go to https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=fZgkhyM1SkWL2ZfCJQLkNtazanXQrlVNqxkZL4FgSJRURENCODRIV0VUM0FZMDdKNlBZQUxDS1ZORi4u&route=shorturl
If you would rather engage by completing a survey for victim-survivors go to https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=fZgkhyM1SkWL2ZfCJQLkNtazanXQrlVNqxkZL4FgSJRURTQzNENJRFExV0dZWTIyRk0zN1ZTNTRCVy4u&route=shorturl
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health whilst on a waiting list in Suffolk. Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
We love to hear from you
Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/tell-us-something or if you have a question relating to health and wellbeing in Suffolk and North East Essex then ask us at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us
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8 November 2024
People & Communities Insight & Oversight Group
Our People & Communities event is getting closer but there's still time to book your place or register your interest for getting involved with the group. Fill out the form at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/36621/survey-tools/40744 or go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group for more information.
Other engagement projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE:
Connect for Health at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ies-connect-for-health/surveys/connect-for-health-feedback-survey-october-2024
ME & CFS and Long Covid survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/20120/survey-tools/40479
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
We also have some non ICB surveys from colleagues within the Suffolk & North East Essex Integrated Care System (SNEE ICS):
Mental Health Research Priorities in NorfolkContinue reading
People & Communities Insight & Oversight Group
Our People & Communities event is getting closer but there's still time to book your place or register your interest for getting involved with the group. Fill out the form at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/36621/survey-tools/40744 or go to www.letstalksnee.co.uk/people-and-communities-insight-and-oversight-group for more information.
Other engagement projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE:
Connect for Health at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ies-connect-for-health/surveys/connect-for-health-feedback-survey-october-2024
ME & CFS and Long Covid survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/20120/survey-tools/40479
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
We also have some non ICB surveys from colleagues within the Suffolk & North East Essex Integrated Care System (SNEE ICS):
Mental Health Research Priorities in Norfolk & Suffolk
Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
Healthwatch Suffolk are running a survey about waiting for treatment in Suffolk. Take the survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
We love to hear from you
Get in touch at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/ask-us
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11 October 2024
ME & CFS and Long COVID Survey
ME & CFS and Long COVID are all types of post-viral conditions and so the services are combining. We have been working with people who have different expertise, including patients and carers with lived experience of the conditions to find out how the services should combine, and which services would be most valuable to patients.
The team are seeking valuable input from patients and family carers in Suffolk and north east Essex. If you can share your views, take our survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/20120/survey-tools/40479 Your answers will us to help shape the future combinedContinue reading
ME & CFS and Long COVID Survey
ME & CFS and Long COVID are all types of post-viral conditions and so the services are combining. We have been working with people who have different expertise, including patients and carers with lived experience of the conditions to find out how the services should combine, and which services would be most valuable to patients.
The team are seeking valuable input from patients and family carers in Suffolk and north east Essex. If you can share your views, take our survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/20120/survey-tools/40479 Your answers will us to help shape the future combined services.
Please respond by Tuesday 19th November 2024. There will also be further opportunities for patients and family carers to feed into this programme.
What’s it like to be on a waiting list in Suffolk? Share your thoughts now
Are you or your loved one waiting for hospital treatment?
Healthwatch Suffolk wants to know how you’re being supported to look after your health while you wait.
Please take part in the anonymous survey at smartsurvey.co.uk/s/elective
Other engagement projects currently running on Let’s Talk SNEE:
West Suffolk Diabetes Service survey at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/embeds/projects/34001/survey-tools/37287
SEND Collaboration at https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/hub-page/send-collaboration-2
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Children’s Services in Suffolk are running a survey on the County Council website at https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/childrens-health
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8 March 2024
Women’s Health
As a part of a national ten-year drive to improve the health and wellbeing of all women, people and organisations. Suffolk and north east Essex (SNEE) have been working to shape better local health services. Healthwatch are supporting this women’s health programme to make sure people’s experiences and views are included to shape future care and support.
You can read more about how you can share your views, opinions and lived experience of using local services now by visiting https://healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk/womenshealth/
You can also take part in the women’s health engagement (March 2024). The SNEE Women’s Health Insight andContinue reading
Women’s Health
As a part of a national ten-year drive to improve the health and wellbeing of all women, people and organisations. Suffolk and north east Essex (SNEE) have been working to shape better local health services. Healthwatch are supporting this women’s health programme to make sure people’s experiences and views are included to shape future care and support.
You can read more about how you can share your views, opinions and lived experience of using local services now by visiting https://healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk/womenshealth/
You can also take part in the women’s health engagement (March 2024). The SNEE Women’s Health Insight and Oversight group is coordinating engagement to shape services and support for women across SNEE. Together with our co-production team, the group has developed a local survey for people to anonymously share their views and experiences.
Please note: This project includes those who identify as women but may not have been born female and those who were born female but may no longer identify as a woman.
Complete the survey and support the engagement with local people by going to
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SNEEwomenshealth/
Healthwatch Suffolk is hosting a network for people and professionals to shape better health and care together
The network is a working group of:
• Transgender and non-binary people
• People exploring their gender identity
• Health and care professionals
You must be over the age of 18 to join the network.
The people in the network will help it to grow and develop in a positive and inclusive way, supported by our co-production team and an ambassador from the trans community.
Interested? Here’s how you can join in
The network will be hosted online using the Let’s Talk SNEE platform (hosted by the NHS in Suffolk and north east Essex). Find out more by visiting https://www.letstalksnee.co.uk/tg-nb-gq-network
For more information about our network, please call freephone 0800 448 8234, or email coproduction@healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk
NHS App
The NHS website has step-by-step guidance on how to get started with the NHS App visit https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/nhs-app-help-and-support/getting-started-with-the-nhs-app/
Face-to-face support sessions are FREE and taking place across Suffolk, Colchester and Tendring.
In North East Essex the sessions advertised are hosted by the Digital Access Support Team.
In Suffolk Communities Together East Anglia’s Digital Champions will be on-hand to offer support. Find out more about Communities Together at https://www.communitiestogethereastanglia.org
Please see full information and dates here at https://suffolkandnortheastessex.icb.nhs.uk/your-health-and-services/primary-care-gps/accessing-services-digitally/getting-started-with-the-nhs-app/