The NHS Trusts in Worcestershire and Worcestershire County Council are spearheading a national initiative to make healthcare more personalised, and more effective through integrating council and NHS services. This is known as the "Well Connected Programme", and is part of the wider Better Care Fund.
Peter Pinfield , the Chair of Healthwatch Worcestershire, said, "How the NHS and Worcestershire County Council provide our health and care services is going through some of the biggest change since the NHS was set up some 50 years ago. From my perspective, one of the most significant aspects of that change is the commitment to engage patients, service users, carers and all those who are entitled to use health and care services as equal partners in their planning, design and delivery, or in other words doing things with patients rather than to patients. This is known as 'Co-Production' and when it is done well it results in services which better meet our needs as patients, service users or carers."
Healthwatch Worcestershire and Mark Garnier MP would encourage constituents of Wyre Forest to get involved by completing the Co-Production survey.
Survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CoPro