News by: Sian Rees, Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley
Across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) we have been given money to develop better ways of working with local communities. The idea of the network is to help make sure that the views of all communities are included in health and care research and healthcare planning. We want to make sure research and planning becomes more equitable.
We know that great work is already happening but that it may not always be shared with everyone that could use it. We also know that the views of all communities are not included and, that at times, communities can feel overburdened by requests, particularly if they don’t receive any feedback. We want to understand better what is happening already so that we can improve things for everybody.
We hope that you will be able to help us. Please could you complete this survey which asks about what community engagement work you/your organisation is doing. By community engagement we mean finding out about what people think and feel and using this to make a difference. There are lots of ways in which this might happen, for example, by speaking with your members during events or activities, asking them to complete surveys, or compiling case studies based on the experiences of those you work with. You or your organisation may carry out this work yourselves or work with another organisation or a research team.
The survey is short and it should take no more than 15 minutes to fill in. If you have any questions or queries then please contact sian.rees@healthinnovationoxford.org, who will be doing the survey analysis. All responses will be anonymised in our analysis. and people responding to the survey will not be identified in the report we will be writing. Once we have analysed the information, we will be holding a sharing event in February to develop an action plan.
You will find the survey HERE
We would be very grateful if you could complete the survey by 9 January 2024.