Consultations

We are currently consulting on:

Services for children and young people with learning difficulties

Community health services questionnaire

Services for children and young people with learning disabilities

NHS South Gloucestershire is planning the redesign of the overnight short break service provided by the PCT and the expansion of the Specialist Service for Children with Learning Disabilities (SSCLD) in South Gloucestershire. We want to ensure that families with a child or young person with learning disabilities are supported by overnight short breaks and wider community learning disability services which are able to meet the needs in South Gloucestershire both now and in the future.

Please read letter inviting comments here and our full proposals here or a very brief summary version here.

If you are a resident of South Gloucestershire, we would like to hear your views either by post (there is a postal questionnaire at the back of the proposals document above or download a response questionnaire here), clicking the link on the online survey below or email us at:

pennie.jones@sglos-pct.nhs.uk quoting Overnight Short Breaks for Children and Extending Specialist Service for Children with Learning Disabilities as the title of your email.

Fill in the survey online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/churchhouse

We are inviting comments on the proposals until noon on Friday 1 June 2012

Community Health services questionnaire

NHS South Gloucestershire is reviewing the Community Health services in South Gloucestershire in preparation for awarding a new contract from when the existing contract comes to an end. We are seeking people’s opinions about current and future community health services. We would appreciate it if you could take some time fill in the questionnaire below giving your views and experiences. The questionnaire is anonymous and we are keen to seek the views of local residents, patients and their family members and carers.

Community health services include district nurses, continence services, community physiotherapy and podiatry. Please note that it does not include the home care service provided by South Gloucestershire council.

You can fill it in online here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/communityviews

Or you can download and print the paper version: South Gloucestershire Community Health questionnaire

Please return your paper copy to the address below by 30 April 2012 (please note that we have extended the deadline).

Community Health Services Feedback

FREEPOST RSGJ-HALK-ZHES

NHS South Gloucestershire

1 Monarch Court

BS16 7FH

Review and your feedback on the health services at the Yate West Gate Centre

Since August 2011, NHS South Gloucestershire and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) have conducted a review of our decision to suspend the

evening and weekend opening hours of the X-ray facility at the Yate West Gate Centre beacause of the low number of patients using the service.

Since the service was suspended, we have monitored how many patients from Yate and the surrounding areas have needed an X-ray outside normal working hours. The review showed that only a low number of patients had gone to either Cossham, Frenchay of Southmead in the evening or at weekends. If all of those patients had had their X-ray at Yate, we would still be more than 30 per cent below the level of patients needed to ensure that the out of hours’ service is sustainable. We will, however, continue to monitor the situation.

The review also inlcuded a questionaire on the general public's awareness and feedback on the NHS services at the Yate West Gate Centre - the Minor Injuries Unit, the X-ray facility and the outpatient clinics. We had 820 responses to our questionnaire on the Minor Injuries Unit, the X-ray and outpatient services at the Yate West Gate Centre and we would like to thank you for your fantastic feedback.

Overall, many people were aware of the services the NHS offers at the centre and were pleased to have this facility in the community.

You can read a full copy of the survey here: Yate West Gate Questionnaire 2011

How your views help us deliver good quality services

If you live in the area, you could be helping to develop better health services for the future. We are keen to increase public input and promote a better understanding about what NHS South Gloucestershire does.

In this section we invite you to share your views on specific service areas that are currently under review. As a Primary Care Trust we are committed to involving patients, carers and members of the public in shaping the way services are designed and developed.

We want to hear from you before we make a decision on what and how to change things. Sometimes we will seek the public's views through a formal consultation process - that is we will seek views on proposals for changing the way services are provided. At other times we will gather views – for example about people’s experiences of current services and ideas for future provision - before we develop options for how services could be developed.

The Report on Consultations 2010-11 provides information on how consultations have impacted on commissioning decisions.

(Last year's Report on Consultations 2009-2010)

Current involvement work
The redevelopment of Cossham Hospital
The development of Thornbury Community Hospital
Developing community healthcare facilities for Frenchay
Previous consultations or involvement exercises

In this section you can:

Take part in a live consultation or call for feedback
Find information about current and previous consultations or calls for feedback.

Current involvement work
From 1 June 2011, NHS Bristol, NHS North Somerset and NHS South Gloucestershire have formed a primary care trust cluster. Each organisation continues to be a legal body. Key projects will be led by Directors operating across the three organisations.

The redevelopment of Cossham Hospital
NHS South Gloucestershire held a formal consultation on options for redeveloping services in the Kingswood and District area from October to December 2006. Following this formal consultation, the project to redevelop Cossham Hospital has worked with and involved local people and public representatives in the project. More information is in our Cossham section. For further information, please contact Paul Frisby, Commissioning and Service Development Manager on 0117 330 2432 or e-mail him on paul.frisby@sglos-pct.nhs.uk

The development of Thornbury Community Hospital
NHS South Gloucestershire is working with local stakeholders the best way to provide future services in Thornbury. To run the project NHS South Gloucestershire has established a steering group made up of half NHS members and half members of the public or community representatives, ensuring that all parties work in partnership to plan services. More information on the project is in our Thornbury section. For further information contact Paul Frisby, Commissioning and Service Development Manager on 0117 330 2432 or e-mail him on paul.frisby@sglos-pct.nhs.uk

Developing community healthcare facilities for Frenchay
NHS South Gloucestershire worked with local stakeholders to recommend how community services at Frenchay might be commissioned in the future. This work was undertaken by a Frenchay Project Board that was made up of half NHS and half non-NHS members.

The Project Board developed a proposal to develop a vibrant health and social care centre at Frenchay that would include a community hospital which would enable adults to remain in their own home, prevent patients being admitted to hospital inappropriately and would help patients regain their independence after a stay in hospital. This proposal was supported by the scrutiny committees of South Gloucestershire and Bristol and forms the basis of the Outline Business Case developed by North Bristol NHS Trust. Further details about this work is in the Frenchay section of the website. For further information, please contact Rosemary Grant, Assistant Director of Service Development on 0117 3235030 or e-mail her at Rosemary.Grant@nbt.nhs.uk

Previous consultations or involvement exercises

Engagement on the draft Health Improvement Strategy for South Gloucestershire
NHS South Gloucestershire has been working with the local authority and other partners to develop a broad health improvement strategy. A consultation on the draft strategy came to a close in March 2011. The Strategy will now updated to take account of the public and stakeholder feedback as well as the recommendations set out in the Public Health White Paper updated on the 14 July 2011. For further information please contact, Natalie Field, Deputy Director of Public Health at natalie.field@sglos-pct.nhs.uk

Five Year Strategic Plan
In February 2010, NHS South Gloucestershire invited coments on its draft strategic plan. These comments were presented in a report and discussed by the PCT Board at its meeting on the 26th May 2010.

Public consultaton on draft Joint Strategy for People with Physical and Sensory Impairments and Neurological Conditions, 2011 - 2014
NHS South Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire Council held a public consultation from 1 December 2010 until 31 March 2011 on the draft Joint Strategy for People with Physical and Sensory Impairments and Neurological Conditions, 2011 – 2014.

Single Equality Scheme
The PCT invited the public and and representatives of equality groups to help develop its Single Equality Scheme in January 2011. The scheme was developed by the Equalities Action Committee with feedback received from equality groups and interested parties. It takes into account the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and the significant organisational changes in the NHS as proposed in the Health and Social Care Bill 2010-2011.

New rights in the NHS Constitution – what do you think?
The Department of Health consulted on proposals to extend the NHS Constitution to:

introduce a new right to access services within maximum waiting times or for the NHS to take all reasonable steps to offer a range of alternative providers if this is not possible;
introduce a new right to a NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40–74, to come into effect in 2012, and the right to see an alternative provider if you are not offered one by the provider you approach;
explore the introduction of a number of potential future rights; and
the introduction of a “Constitution Champion”.

NHS South Gloucestershire led the consultation in South Gloucesteshire and submitted the following report to the strategic health authority, NHS South West.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
From 1 April to 31 July 2009, NHS South Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire Council consulted the public in South Gloucestershire on how to ensure people of all ages can enjoy good health and well-being.. The consultation focused on the changes that happen in people’s lives – for example, children growing into adults, becoming a carer, losing a job, retiring or bereavement – and aimed to find out what kind of support people need at these times. It also looked at how people access services and any inequalities in the levels of health enjoyed by different sections of the community. The results have been fed into the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Supplement (JSNA), a document which will be used to shape decisions about how care services are planned and delivered in the future.

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