Dorset & Somerset Health Authority's policy:
"Give greater voice and influence to local people, users
of the NHS services and their carers over the development and
definition of standards set for NHS services and the development
of policy"
Special Reports
Report
of the special panel held in Yeovil on 12 June 2003. The meeting took the form of a focus group. Ten people took part and
discussed - Information:
about the services provided by the Trust, how patients and the
public would want to receive information, how it should be
presented, what it should contain - in other words - what would
you want to know?
Report
of the special panels held in Dulverton, Yeovil and
Wellington in June 2001. The panel discussed how patients
should be involved in decisions made about their healthcare.
Report
of the special panels held in Chard, Ilminster and Langport
to discuss the boundary issue.
The panel meetings took place in November 2000.
- Report
of a consultation of users of gynaecological cancer
services held in November 1999.
Health Panel Reports
Round 24 - held in April and
May 2003. Meetings were held in Chard, Wincanton,
Yeovil, Taunton, Wellington, Wiveliscombe, Frome, Street,
Shepton Mallet, Burnham on Sea, Dulverton and Minehead. A
total of 91 people took part in the panel discussions.
The panels discussed:
- General
practitioner services (primary care) - including aspects of
the proposed new General Practitioner Contract, transport,
walk-in centres and patient responsibility.
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Round 23 - held in September
and October 2002. Meetings were held in Chard, Wincanton,
Yeovil, Taunton, Wellington, Wiveliscombe, Frome, Street,
Shepton Mallet, Burnham on Sea, Dulverton and Minehead. A
total of 89 people took part in the panel discussions.
The panels discussed:
- Men's health - focussing on access to health
services (e.g. why won't some men go to the doctor?),
education, information and attitudes to health - across all
age groups.
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Round 22 - held in April and
May 2002. Meetings were held in Wincanton, Yeovil, Chard,
Shepton Mallet, Street, Frome, Wellington, Taunton,
Wiveliscombe, Burnham on Sea, Minehead and Dulverton. A total
of 104 members attended.
The topics discussed were:
- The development of the new Patient Advice and Liaison
Service (PALS)
- How to effectively consult with patients and the public
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Round 21 - held in September
and October 2001. Meetings were held in Wincanton, Yeovil,
Martock, Shepton Mallet, Street, Frome, Wellington, Chard,
Langport, Burnham on Sea, Minehead and Dulverton. A total of
85 members attended.
The topics discussed were:
- Are people happy to receive care and treatment from
specialist support workers trained to deliver specific
services - like rehab, physiotherapy, diagnostic tests, e.g.
ECGs, occupational therapy etc?
- What sort of information would members of the public wish
to have in order to inform them how well their local GP
practice was performing? (N.B. this topic was discussed by
the Chard, Yeovil and Wincanton panels only)
The topics were submitted
by the four Primary Care organisations in Somerset.
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Round 20 - held in April and
May 2001. Meetings were held in Wincanton, Yeovil, Martock,
Shepton Mallet, Street, Frome, Wellington, Chard, Langport,
Burnham on Sea/Bridgwater, Minehead and Dulverton. A total of
96 health panel members attended.
The topic discussed was:
- Attitudes and barriers to seeking help for depression and
stress-related disorders
This topic was submitted
by the Public Health Department of the health authority, which
had carried out a pilot survey in the Somerset Coast Primary
Care Trust area to assess levels of depression and stress in a
random sample of that population.
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Round 19 - held in September and October 2000. The
topics discussed were:
- Resuscitation of patients
- Services for elderly people
- Local outpatient services versus centralised (discussed by
Street, Shepton Mallet and Frome panels only, instead of the
resuscitation topic).
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Round 18 - held in April and May 2000. The topics
discussed were:
- Prescribing within Primary Care
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Round 17 - held in September and October 1999. The
topics discussed were:
- Accidents in children under four year’s old
The panels were not asked to fill in decision sheets on
direct questions relating to these topics but rather encouraged
to discuss the issues very much at a local and community level
– looking at who should provide what, ways of working
together, past and present services, reasons for change and
progress. The topics were put together to feed in to the next
Health Improvement Programme. (HImP)
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Round 16 - held in April and May 1999. The topics
discussed were:
- Complementary therapy within the NHS
- The development of NHS Direct
- Confidential Drug Services for young people (all panels
except Taunton)
- The role of Taunton Community Hospital (Taunton panel
only)
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Round 15 - held in September and October 1998. The
topics discussed were:
- How should the public be represented in Primary Care
Groups?
- Should most follow-up of patients with ‘common’
cancers take place in hospital or primary care (GP
surgeries)?
- Should Somerset Health Authority put more resources into
training primary care professionals to take on specialist
care (rather than using this money to develop hospital
services)?
- Should Somerset Health Authority purchase Sildenafil (Viagra)
for all those men with impotence who request it?
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Round 14 - held in March and April 1998. The topics
discussed were:
- Should Somerset Health Authority spend more of its total
budget in areas with higher levels of need for health care
than in areas with less need?
- Should Somerset Health Authority pursue a scoring system
to help prioritise individual patients or should this be
left to clinical judgement?
- Should Somerset Health Authority spend money on continence
pads for urinary incontinence?
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Round 13 - held in September and October 1997. The
topics discussed were:
- Is it reasonable to expect GPs to provide 24 hour health
cover?
- Which aspects of a high quality service do you think would
be the most important to members of the public and patients
using the GP practice?
- Should Somerset Health Authority limit the availability of
breast reduction surgery?
- Should Somerset Health Authority limit the availability of
all cosmetic surgery?
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Round 12 - held in June and July 1997. The topics
discussed were:
- Should Somerset Health Authority extend the role of
optometrists?
- What are your top three priorities for Somerset Health
Authority for extending user and public participation in the
decisions made about buying and running health services in
Somerset? (Top three priorities)
- Should Somerset Health Authority consider sharing
buildings in order to fund extra staff for other services?
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