Small Steps, Great Beginnings

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Small Steps, Great Beginnings

• South Ayrshire Community
• Health Partnership
• Public Partnership Forum (PPF)

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May 2006 -

• First meeting of interested voluntary
  organisations and community council members
• Elected members take up Core Group memberships
• 6 voluntary organisation members
• 6 Community council members

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Did that earlier slide make it sound so simple?

• Problems, problems, problems
• Why were they there?
• Could we all get in?
• Who was who?
• We learned from all of the above

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Small steps

• Next meeting June 2006
• A Chair and Vice Chair are elected
• So too are the PPF representatives on the
  Community Health Partnership (CHP) Committee
• Initial working agreement discussed
• Progress and all in one and a half hours

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Further small steps

• Working agreement between the PPF and the CHP
  develops
• Through this process Core Group members learn
  more about what a PPF is and its influencing
  capabilities
• PPF representatives begin to attend CHP Committee
  meetings
• Network is tested with the first distributions of
  information
• Core Group feedback indicates a need for a
  Consultation Protocol and for both hard copy and
  email distribution

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Yet another step

• January 2007 - PPF Coordinator begins work
• The wider network grows to include additional
  groups and individuals
• Top down information is continued to be shared
  through the network
• Information leaflets developed
• Promotional materials identified

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Left Foot, Right Foot - Starting to gather pace
now!

• Initial training provided to Core Group members
• Processes for bringing community ideas and
  concerns are considered and discussed
• We now not only had top down process but also a
  bottom up process

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So processes are in place but what can our PPF do
and provide?

• Top Down First

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South Ayrshire PPF providesMembers with
opportunities to participate in national
discussion that help to influence healthcare
services
Past examples include National Carers on-line
consultation Great Expectations conference for
deaf and deafblind national planning Scottish
Health Council events
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South Ayrshire PPF providesMembers with
opportunities to participate in local discussion
that help to influence healthcare services

• Past examples where events have been held
  include
• Review of Mental Health Services Mind your
  health project
• Reviewing the Mental Health Promotion Strategy
• Mental Health and Wellbeing for people in later
  life

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South Ayrshire PPF ProvidesMembers with
opportunities to comment on strategies and
policies

• Types of documents members have commented
  include
• Gender Equality Scheme
• Disability Equality Scheme
• Oral Health - Board Paper
• Food and Health Action Plan

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South Ayrshire PPF providesMembers with
information

• Information shared has included
• New NHS Scotland websites
• Big Lottery Primetime Funding project
• NHS Health Scotland events Race Equality
  and Health

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And now.

• Bottom Up

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South Ayrshire PPF influences with suggestions
from its communities

• Mums and Babes Swim sessions
• Pharmacy poster
• Community Occupational Therapy acknowledgment
  letter to referred patients

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Community Occupational Therapy acknowledgment
letter to referred patients

• A PPF member suggested changes to the standard
  acknowledgement letter
• The changes were based on what information could
  make an improved difference to them
• The Core Group members thought the information
  requested was reasonable and achievable

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Community Occupational Therapy acknowledgment
letter to referred patients

• Changes requested were providing information on
• the maximum length of time someone can expect to
  wait for an assessment before contacting the
  department and
• Information about the Disability Resource Centre,
  Ayr for patients wishing to travel for their
  assessment

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Community Occupational Therapy acknowledgment
letter to referred patients

• CHP shared suggestions with local authority
  colleagues
• Letter reviewed and amended

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Whats next?

• Continue sharing information
• Continue to provide engagement opportunities
• Bigger projects will be chosen and undertaken by
  the PPF members for example discharges from
  hospitals

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So in summary Small steps that change the
world, small steps that need not seem to be
revolutionary ones, but small ones that go beyond
an individual level, and make a difference
. Puru Gupta Maybe we will not be changing
the world nor will it be called revolutionary but
we are going beyond that individual level. The
Public Partnership Forum can make a difference to
the health and wellbeing of all the people in
South Ayrshire. Great Beginnings!