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Health and Wellbeing Boards Hearing patient and public voices Tim Gilling Deputy Executive Director Centre for Public Scrutiny. Re-defining relationships. “We believe that many of the White Paper proposals provide opportunities to fundamentally redefine relationships and behaviours between:
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Health and Wellbeing Boards Hearing patient and public voices Tim Gilling Deputy Executive Director Centre for Public Scrutiny
Re-defining relationships • “We believe that many of the White Paper proposals provide opportunities to fundamentally redefine relationships and behaviours between: • professionals, patients and carers (e.g. through shared decision-making) • commissioners and providers (e.g. through shifting the balance of power and capacity to change the status quo) • commissioners, providers and communities (e.g. through involvement and influence) • commissioners, providers and councillors (e.g. through political leadership and scrutiny)” • CfPS response to Equity and Excellence – October 2010
representatives or participants? CfPS: Accountability Works! 2010
HWB perceptions of LHW and the VCS? • legal requirement/‘the usual suspects’ • or knowledge, skills and insight • diverse • supporters • fundraisers • advocates • providers • assets v barriers
helping tackle challenges An efficient service that works for patients Treat the causes not the effects Transparency and participation People engaged in their own health and care
your challenges • credibility - staying independent but having an influence • outsiders or insiders – easy to dismiss or easy to pigeonhole • community channel – facing out, in touch with wide networks • ‘critical friend’ – facing in, strategic advice from a non- institutional perspective