Meeting date: August 1, 2024
Focus Group: My Health Focus Group Meetings
This information is a summary and minutes of the My Health Focus group.
You can download the full presentation from the day at the bottom of the page.
Agenda Items
- Item 1.
- Learning Disability Friendly Award
- Item 2.
- Annual Health Check Survey
- Item 3.
- Website Accessibility Exercise
- Item 4.
- Leading Lives wheelchair weighing scales
- Item 5.
- Pre-Health Check Questionnaire Updates
- Item 6.
- Any other business
Who attended
6
Self Advocates
2
Families & Carers
2
Key Organisations
5
Provider Organisations
3
Board Members
Guest Speakers
- Item 1
- Matt Chittenden – Ace Anglia
- Item 2
- Alison Sadler – Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
- Item 3
- Wendy Scott – Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
- Nicole Smith & Shenah Angell
- Suffolk Libraries & Ace Anglia – Item 4
- Ashley Lennon
- Ace Anglia – Item 5
- Ian Dunstan
- Ace Anglia – Item 6
Item 2. Annual Health Check Survey
- You said
- Who was the Annual Health Check Survey co-produced with?
- Response
- It was done through NHS Suffolk and North East Essex. Peer educators and quality check team at Ace Anglia helped. Family carers, people with learning disabilities and autistic people helped make the questionnaire suitable for everybody. NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust also helped.
Item 6. Any Other Business
- You Said
- Could a GP come in to give us more information or updates on what they are working on in the next meeting?
- Response
- We may not be able to get a GP in, but Wendy and Alison can give us an update on vaccinations before winter.
- You said
- People with learning disabilities being unable to access NHS dentists and having to pay a lot for the service.
- Response
- Accessing dentists is a big issue not just for people with learning disabilities. Wendy and Alison may do an update on dentists as there have been a couple more specialist open recently.
- You said
- How do people with more complicated health issues access their GP surgery? What are some good examples of reasonable adjustments that can be made and how can people access them?
- Response
- Wendy and Alison to talk about how carers can outline people’s needs so they can help people access help.
Minutes and presentation: My Health Focus Group 1st August
pdf, 6 MB