We presented to the Children and Young People’s Partnership board about the role of Healthwatch and what we’ve heard about young people, including problems in accessing (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and our work with Magna Carta School. They gave us the following feedback: “Thank you (HW) for providing us with further clarity around the role of Healthwatch. With this we will be able to work more closely together, using the valuable information Healthwatch gathers to change our services and ensure the voice of the service is heard.” We challenged commissioners at the Adults & Health Select Committee to provide more information about how they would measure the long term impact on the proposals to reduce Housing Related Support. This led to a recommendation by the committee: “That officers outline how it will measure the long term impact of those proposals, especially on socially excluded.” We also challenged commissioners to be clear with people and manage expectations about changes to housing related support. Commissioners are forecasting that only 30% of older people and people with learning disabilities who will lose their Housing Related Support will be eligible for continuing support under the Care Act Assessment Process. We believe the current briefing is too vague. Healthwatch Surrey feedback was used in CAMHS Quality Review: Guildford and Waverley CCG incorporated feedback from Healthwatch Surrey about concerns over CAMHS waiting times into the quality review of the service, subsequently these concerns were acknowledged in the review paper.
We presented to the Children and Young People’s Partnership board about the role of Healthwatch and what we’ve heard about young people, including problems in accessing (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and our work with Magna Carta School. They gave us the following feedback: “Thank you (HW) for providing us with further clarity around the role of Healthwatch. With this we will be able to work more closely together, using the valuable information Healthwatch gathers to change our services and ensure the voice of the service is heard.” We challenged commissioners at the Adults & Health Select Committee to provide more information about how they would measure the long term impact on the proposals to reduce Housing Related Support. This led to a recommendation by the committee: “That officers outline how it will measure the long term impact of those proposals, especially on socially excluded.” We also challenged commissioners to be clear with people and manage expectations about changes to housing related support. Commissioners are forecasting that only 30% of older people and people with learning disabilities who will lose their Housing Related Support will be eligible for continuing support under the Care Act Assessment Process. We believe the current briefing is too vague. Healthwatch Surrey feedback was used in CAMHS Quality Review: Guildford and Waverley CCG incorporated feedback from Healthwatch Surrey about concerns over CAMHS waiting times into the quality review of the service, subsequently these concerns were acknowledged in the review paper.
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